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... those who saw themselves as Bosnian Serbs or Bosnian Croats.2 These nations were members of Yugoslavia, later to become the independent states of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia. The participants were all members of the Yugoslav state and gained recognition as states later, after it's collapse. It is often described as a "clash of civilisations - between civilised and barbarian, Western and Balkan."3 There are many theories as to the causes of war; International Relations theory claims multiple sources of conflict, as well as three casual factors. It is argued that the global system and the problems at the structural level have an impact. At the point of disintegration the global power configuration had a massive effect, with the Cold War helping to preserve Yugoslavia as a united state. It is seen that the USSR was "negative glue" and the Western ideas and policies of the USA was argued to ...