Word: yugoslavia
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...Yugoslavia is exactly the kind of conflict that collective security was supposed to address: small, isolated, manageable, involving none of the great powers. Yet as Lord Carrington, mediator for another would-be agency of collective security (the European Community), admitted, "It is very difficult to see what can be done while they go on fighting...
Consider the gulf war, by now totally misunderstood. New York Times columnist Leslie Gelb writes, "If the Persian Gulf war promised a new era of collective responsibility, Yugoslavia heralds its early demise." But the gulf war promised no new era of collective responsibility. The gulf war was no more collective than the Korean War, also fought under the U.N. flag. It was not the U.N. that reversed Saddam's conquest of Kuwait. It was the U.S. Army, based in Saudi Arabia, helped by Britain and France. Everything else was window dressing...
...first week of U.N.-imposed economic sanctions did nothing to halt the fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serb forces have seized more than two- thirds of the territory and are bombarding the capital, Sarajevo. But the cutoff of trade, including oil, did make officials in the rump state of Yugoslavia squirm publicly...
Nonsense, replied Western diplomats in Yugoslavia. The Serb-dominated federal army left behind 80,000 Serb troops when it made a show of pulling out of Bosnia in May. Belgrade armed them and dispatched Mladic to command them. If Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic wants to call them back, the diplomats say, all he has to do is whistle...
Though the Serbs make up only a third of the population of Bosnia- Herzegovina , they are, says U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann, "trying to take over two-thirds of the country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said it was the largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second World...