In the period from 1992 to 1995, a civil war took place in the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and caused many human casualties as well as a lot of material damage. The war was part of the breakup of Yugoslavia, a process that with some interruptions lasted for almost two decades. Serbs, Croats, and Muslims, who simultaneously represent the three major nations and three principal religions of the area, clashed with each other. However, it was in B&H that the war was most destructive, opaque, and complicated not only because of the markedly heterogeneous national and religious composition of this former Yugoslav republic but also because of the influence of various foreign or external factors. The first was the EU, which soon relinquished its leading role to the United Nations. The conflict was also strongly influenced by powerful countries, which joined together in ad hoc groups and formulated peace plans for the sake of resolving the crisis, and NATO. The thesis mainly focuses on the study of the mode, direction, forms, and intensity of the action of external factors, outlines the course of events and evaluates the influence of external factors, assesses the effects or consequences of the activities of external factors, highlights examples of good and bad practices and sets some hypothetical alternative options for solving the long-term and complex crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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