The Serbs: a warning from a past contributor.

Contemporary Review | May 1, 1993| | Copyright

More than a few readers have recently searched atlases to locate suddenly newsworthy spots such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Scutari, and Krajina. The assertion that the world has become smaller and more intimate is traditional in conversations on international affairs. Yet popular Western knowledge of the Balkans in the decades since World War II is probably more circumscribed than eighty years ago. The Balkan Wars of 1912-13 caught the attention of the world. Concern focused even more sharply on the Balkans in June of 1914 when the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Hapsburg ...

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