Word: zagreb
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...easier when the Croatian and Serbian nationalists in Bosnia were just puppets of their mother states, because then the international community was able to tackle the problem directly with Belgrade and Zagreb. But the Dayton Accord cut the bonds to a large extent between the mother states and ethnic communities in Bosnia. So that's created an irony now where Croatian and Serb nationalism in Bosnia is more vibrant than in Croatia or Serbia. Dayton is now a kind of iron lung for nationalism in Bosnia...
...potentially implicated in war crimes, and the new government can't afford to put these people in a corner." Still, the result will have a positive effect on the Balkan regional dynamic. "The most immediate change may occur in Bosnia, where the Bosnian Croat hardliners will lose support from Zagreb and that will help the Dayton peace process," says Anastasijevic. "The big loser may be Slobodan Milosevic, who worked with Tudjman to dismember Bosnia and whom it suited to have an authoritarian nationalist neighbor as a weapon with which to scare Serbs...