Dilemmas within Dilemmas

‘GREECE has a problem,” said the head of an American non-governmental organization. “It wants to lead the Balkans without being part of the Balkans.”

We were chatting at a conference in Athens that had brought together Greek politicians, American and West European observers, and, most important, Serbs opposed to the regime of President Slobodan Milosevic. The topic was, inevitably, how to restore stability to the Balkans.