ABSTRACT

When we last met, just over three ago, the situation in former Yugoslavia was very different. The break-up of the Federation was on the horizon, it was expected, but nobody predicted that it would occur so violently, so destructively, or that the leadership in Serbia would resort to war so quickly. You identified Serbian claims on parts of Bosnia and Croatia as a stumbling block to a new confederation, but you didn’t believe that there was any real danger of a restoration of Serbian dominance, once Slovenia and Croatia had undertaken democratic elections. Do you still believe that now?