Number: RL30906
Title: BOSNIA-HERCEGOVINA AND U.S. POLICY
Authors: Steven Woehrel, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: Some see the international effort in Bosnia as a misguided and impractical exercise in nation-building and not in the U.S. interest. They advocate a U.S. pullout from Bosnia, leaving the main burden for Bosnian peacekeeping with the Europeans. Some advocates of disengagement also favor a partition of Bosnia. Others believe that the stability of Bosnia and the Balkans is important to stability in Europe as a whole, which they view as a vital U.S. interest. Many calling for a greater international role in Bosnia attribute the shortcomings of current policy to an insufficiently active effort to defeat nationalists in Bosnia and/or to flaws in the Dayton accords.
Pages: 25
Date: Updated March 28, 2001