What did it say about the rise of nationalism? This leads into the third significant issue of the Balkan wars, the assertion of the claims of nationalism as the focal point of political legitimacy.

Clark sees the war as growing from Balkan roots, the initial crisis in many ways being the onset of a Third Balkan War, and certainly the events of that summer make sense only in the context of the ...

During the 1990s, the government of Slobodan Milošević led Serbia into a third Balkan war. His allies in Bosnia were ...

While most Europeans viewed the region as a cultural and economic backwater, the Balkans played an outsized role in continental diplomacy, as Europe’s Great Powers vied for favor by selling arms ...