Volume 43, Number 20 · December 19, 1996
Last Chance for Bosnia?
By Warren Zimmermann
Unfinished Peace: Report of the International Commission on the Balkans
Aspen Institute Berlin/Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 197 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Just before World War I the Balkans erupted in two consecutive conflicts. In the first Balkan war in 1912, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro—all of which had won their independence from Turkey—joined to drive the Turks from Macedonia, the last Turkish foothold in the region. A year later, in 1913, the Serbian and Bulgarian victors fell out between themselves. In a short and savage war the Serbs defeated the Bulgarians and seized most of Macedonia as a virtual colonial dependency.
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