The Balkans

In the coming year, Western Balkan countries will increasingly need to assume greater agency in shaping their own trajectories.

Fewer than fifty years after the end of World War II, genocide returned to Europe in Bosnia. The carnage ended on December 14, 1995, with the signing of the US-brokered Dayton Accords. Thirty years on, have the war’s lessons—for Europe; for diplomacy, humanitarian intervention, and more—been heeded?

The prospect of a prolonged, wider European war in the coming years is reshaping strategic calculations throughout the Balkans.