The leaders of the republics of the former Yugoslavia all did their best to destroy the federation from within. None of the peace agreements work as expected. The regions are more polarized and ethnically cleansed than before. Democracy is formal and imposed, not genuine. The countries are not armed simply for defense, they are militarized.
War criminals are still at large.
The deeply human dimensions of tolerance, forgiveness, reconciliation and societal regeneration have hardly begun. No commissions on truth or history have been established. Integration into the EU may not take place for a long time yet. Finally, and fatally, the U.N. missions to these countries have been thrown out, substituted with more expensive and heavy-handed missions, or discontinued prematurely. The Kosovo operation failed three ways Failed violence prevention.