Kosovo Crisis: Tensions in Macedonia could spark Balkan war

From: The Independent - London | Date: March 24, 1999| Author: Marcus Tanner | Copyright information

AS THE West prepares for war against Serbia, inevitably fears are being voiced that the conflict will throw the entire region into chaos.

The "Balkan tinder-box" theory was frequently wheeled out by Western politicians in the early Nineties to justify a "hands off" policy towards the conflict then raging in Bosnia.

Balkan chaos theories date back to the first and second Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913, which involved Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and the Ottoman Empi...

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