Lessons of Yugoslavia

As a member of the first team of research fellows at this Institute, from 1990 to 1993, Nicole Gnesotto made an invaluable contribution to the Institute's work. After leaving the Institute, she kindly agreed to write a paper on developments in former Yugoslavia. We are glad to publish this essay which, in a stimulating and original way, raises a number of important questions on the lessons to be learnt from the developments in former Yugoslavia and Western policy reactions. This Chaillot Paper was, with the exception of two footnotes, completed in December 1993 and therefore does not take into account events that have occurred since that date, although the essence of the paper's arguments remains unchanged by those events.