ABSTRACT
Constraints continued from oversight by the Great Powers to the boundaries of the Cold War. North Atlantic Treaty Organization intervention ended the conflict in 1995 and its air campaign forced the Serbian evacuation of Kosovo in 1999. Some 900,000 Kosovar Albanians returned from their forced flight to Albania or Macedonia, unlike Bosnia's 1 million refugees who fled abroad or to their ethnic entities, ratified by the Dayton Agreement between the three sides. By the mid-1990s, multi-party elections in Albania and Romania ended the virtual single-party regimes that had consolidated in the first years of transition. The Democratic Party in Romania won the election of 1996 with a coalition that included representatives of the large Hungarian minority. Bulgarian elections in 1997 dismissed the last government led by an unreformed Socialist Party and their catastrophic economic policies, which had led the economy into hyperinflation. In subsequent elections, different political parties alternated in power in Sofia, including one led by former King Simeon.
