After the Cold War’s end and the collapse of the Russian Empire’s Soviet successor, war returned to the Balkans under very similar conditions to those that prevailed in the period before 1914, with aggressive nationalism ultimately reconfiguring the disintegrating Yugoslavia as six separate states. Of course, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević, whose call for a “Greater Serbia” triggered the war, was not alone: For a moment, Europe was in danger of reverting to the confrontation of 1914, with France and the United Kingdom supporting Serbia, and Germany and Austria favoring Croatia.
冷战结束以及沙俄帝国的后继者苏联解体后，战争回到了巴尔干半岛，因为那里的情况变得与1914年前极为相似，最后，激进的民族主义把南斯拉夫打散重组为六个独立国家。当然，以提出“大塞尔维亚”而引发战争的塞尔维亚总统米洛舍维奇（Slobodan Milošević）并不孤独：有一段时间，欧洲大有重回1914年冲突之势，法国和英国支持塞尔维亚，德国和奥地利站在克罗地亚一边。