![]() ![]() ![]() For that, you need an additional factor: Western cowardice. The Balkans could shape the end of the century, just as they did the beginning.īut a background of ethnic strife will not necessarily cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, in conditions which resemble the Holocaust, just a few hours train journey away from Vienna. In the 1990s those limits may well become visible in a Third World region within Europe itself. In the 1970s and 1980s the world witnessed the limits of superpower influence in places like Vietnam and Afghanistan. Moreover, my emphasis on Balkan ethnic strife in my writings of the late 1980s proved correct: in the July 1989 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, before the Berlin Wall even fell, I wrote: Balkan Ghosts was completed before the war and edited before the relevant events he discusses. Unfortunately, this is another case of a book being used for purposes to which it was not intended. Timothy Garton Ash is correct to suggest that many people who have cynically opposed forceful action in the Balkans have used my book, Balkan Ghosts, as ammunition. ![]()
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