by Misha Glenny

About the author: Misha Glenny is an award-winning correspondent in Central Europe for the British Broadcasting Company. He is the author of The Fall of Yugoslavia: The Third Balkan War.

More than ever, the options open for an international response to the Bosnian war are extremely limited. As the Russian foreign minister, Andrej Kozyrev, put it: “There is no best option. We are choosing between bad and worse—or very, very bad, as a matter of fact. Let us not forget that the First World War started exactly in Sarajevo. There is unfortunately very much potential for a bigger Balkan war, which should be avoided by all means, and there is potential also for an international crusade, be it Muslim or Christian or whatever.” As long as there is no consensus among...