Bosnia and Herzegovina was the site of one of Europe’s most devastating conflicts since the Second World War, as Yugoslavia’s breakup in the early 1990s descended into ethnic warfare among Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats. The war left well over 100,000 dead before the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement ended the fighting.
Decades later, Bosnia’s political system, split between two semi-autonomous entities, still struggles with ethnic division and institutional gridlock that has slowed its path toward European integration.