Was history ever on holiday? The Europe of Sarajevo over 100 years: from WW1 to www.
Journal: SEER
Year: 2014

Some twenty years ago, genocide was taking place just a one-hour flight from Brussels: assassination of a very different kind from that of 1914 enveloped Sarajevo. Bosnia (and the Union of different peoples -Yugoslavia) was being turned into a years-long slaughterhouse; meanwhile, the Maastricht dream was unifying the Westphalian world of the Old Continent. Two decades later, Atlantic Europe is a political powerhouse (with two of the three European nuclear powers and two of the five permanent me