accord: An agreement or reconciliation.

Balkans: Mountainous, peninsular region of southeast Europe including Croatia, Bosnia, and Rump Yugoslavia.

Chetniks: Serbian nationalists who fought against the German occupation troops, their Croatian allies, and Tito's Communists during World War II (1939–1945).

client states: Nations or parts of nations that are dependent upon another stronger nation for support.

Eastern Orthodox: The body of Christian churches, including the Greek, Russian, and Serbian Orthodox, derived from the Byzantine Empire.

ethnic cleansing: The forcible removal of one ethnic group by another from disputed territory.

Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina: The entity representing the Muslim-Croat half of the proposed nation of Bosnia.

Greater Serbia: The idea that there will someday be one extended nation within which all Balkan Serbs will live, presumably on land now belonging to Croatia and Bosnia.

indictment: The formal accusation of a criminal charge.

infrastructure: The permanent installations required for the...