![]() This conflict could have dangerous ripple effects on neighboring countries and on great-power relations, especially with Russia, but they should be dealt with directly, not by treating a brush fire as if it threatened the entire forest. Today, the Balkans, generally, and Serbia and Kosovo, in particular, represent a political, economic and strategic backwater. The Balkans were involved in major wars and crises for centuries before 1945 and, to a degree, during the Cold War, because the region had vital strategic importance for the great powers then that it simply does not have now. ![]() ![]() One can be quickly dismissed: the analogy between the situation today and those of World Wars I and II, suggesting that the current crisis could lead to World War III. Let me discuss certain ones as they apply to Kosovo. Becker remarked, is help free us from the tyranny of misleading historical analogies. One thing it can do, as historian Carl L. History provides no simple answers to big questions, particularly those involving policy. ![]()
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