Europe without Europeans
Europe without Europeans

Summary/Abstract: In the 1990s, the European Union aimed to achieve two ambitious goals: to end the wars of Yugoslav succession and to lead the former communist countries in Eastern Europe toward economic and social prosperity. Both of these goals proved elusive. The Dayton Accord, brokered by the United States in 1995, merely “froze” the state of war on the territory of former Yugoslavia without remedying its causes and without removing the conditions that facilitated it. Moreover, it was not a European, but an American military force that effectively intervened in Bosnia and later in Kosovo. Indeed, it is only a slight exaggeration to say that Sarajevo would still be under siege today if the Yugoslav wars had remained the exclusive responsibility of the EU.

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