FAILED APPEASEMENT OF BOSNIA: VANCE-OWEN PLAN
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-676X-2022-3-86-92
Abstract
Aim. This article is dedicated to one of the episodes of searching for a peaceful solution of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1992–1993. The process of the collapse of Yugoslavia, accompanied by military actions and creation of sovereign national republics, was intervened by supranational structures – the EU and the UN. They attempted to stop the military confrontation of the Bosnians, Serbs and Croats in Bosnia by taking a number of measures. In this paper, the process of creating and implementing the Vance-Owen plan is considered.
Methodology. The author studied the documents of the ICFY, analyzed the Vance-Owen plan documentation and the speeches of the EU and the UN representatives on Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1992–1993. The author also studied domestic and foreign monographs and articles on the war in Bosnia and its peaceful solution. The work uses a narrative method to facilitate the transmission of the essence of this problem, the narrative is presented chronologically.
Results. The author seeks to trace the implementation of the Vance-Owen plan, to note the reaction of warring parties and countries that wanted to settle the conflict and to pursue their own interests.
Research implications. The research results contribute to the study of the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in 1991-1999.
Keywords
Yugoslavia,
collapse,
Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the EU,
the UN,
the USA,
Vance-Owen plan,
C. Vance,
D. Owen
About the Author
M. Ometiukh
Moscow Region State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Mikhail N. Ometiukh – Postgraduate Student, Department of Modern and Contemporary History and Methodology
141014, Moscow Region, Mytishchi, ul. Very Voloshonoi 24
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