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US Policy and the Making of the Dayton Accords

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Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars

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Abstract

It is arguable how much US policies undermined the Bosnian settlement efforts between 1992 and 1994. But its key role in the making of the Dayton Accords is undisputed.

This chapter is based on my article ‘Coercive Mediation on the Road to Dayton’, International Negotiation, vol. 1, no. 3 (1996), pp. 547–70.

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Touval, S. (2002). US Policy and the Making of the Dayton Accords. In: Mediation in the Yugoslav Wars. Advances in Political Science: An International Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288669_8

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