ABSTRACT
It is often assumed that the New Labour government reversed Conservative policy in the Balkans. The early capture of two Bosnian Serbs indicted by the UN Tribunal, and especially Tony Blair’s prominent role in the NATO campaign in Serbia, suggested a distancing from the appeasement that had characterised Major government policy in Bosnia. The bipartisan stance adopted by the Labour Front Bench during the Bosnian and Croatian wars,2 which had amounted to little more than chipping away at the edges of Tory policy, was evidently now to be replaced by an ‘ethical’ approach to foreign affairs.
