ABSTRACT
Conflict in the Balkan region of Europe first erupted during the administration of George H.W. Bush in 1991, arising from the ongoing disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). This state had formerly consisted of six constituent republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Conflict in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1 began in early 1992. It was a three-way civil war involving Serbs, Croats, and ‘Bosnian Muslims’, further exacerbated by military intervention and territorial aggrandizement by the neighbouring states of Croatia and Serbia.
