The Balkan wars of the 1990s seem like a distant memory today. In addition to the passage of time, other crises such as the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the terrible blood-letting in Syria have pushed the Balkans off the agenda. But the possibility of renewed crisis in the region is growing and may soon impose new demands on US policy at a time when Washington is preoccupied with a turbulent political transition and is more focused on internal matters than troubles abroad.
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Carl Gershman, Ivana Cvetkovic Bajrovic: Perilous – European crisis looms in the Balkans
A man passes a train bound for Kosovo at the main railway station in Belgrade on January 14, 2017. A train from Russia, decorated with the Serbian flag and artwork featuring Serbian churches, monasteries and medieval towns, plans to begin trips traveling from Belgrade to Kosovska Mitrovica, for the first time since the 1998-99 war.
