Is Another Balkan War Inevitable?
An Institute Media Alert on the crisis in Macedonia.
Washington, D.C. -- Can the armed rebellion in Southern Serbia by extremist ethnic Albanian rebels and the expansion of violence in the region be stopped? Could a conflict in Macedonia be contained? What impact will Yugoslav troops in the Kosovo-Macedonia buffer zone have? What options are available to NATO and the US to help quell the recent rebel attacks and prevent the outbreak of a full-scale conflict involving the greater region? Balkans specialists Sonja Biserko, Harriet Hentges, Violeta Petroska-Beska, Daniel Serwer, and Henryk Sokalski are available for questions, commentary, and analysis in assessing the ongoing conflict along the Macedonian border.
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