For many Americans the Balkan issue was settled by the Dayton Accords of 1995, which ended the wars entailed in the break-up of Yugoslavia. Little public attention has been paid to the area since then though, as is well-known, the structure of government in Bosnia-Herzegovina is unstable due to the challenge of the autonomy of Republica Srpska, the status of the Croatian sector of Bosnia-Hercegovina and renewed intervention by Turkey in the region.
