Twenty-five years ago, the Dayton Peace Accords ended Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II. Yet Bosnia and Herzegovina remains the most fragile country in the Balkans. Russia’s current strategy of using Bosnia’s deep religious and ethnic divisions to foment instability is working. In order to prevent a new and costly conflict in Bosnia, the West needs to confront Russia’s growing influence. It urgently needs new policies if it is to do so.
