Every day we make choices that affect our lives and the lives of others. Sometimes these choices are conscious, thoughtful, and even deliberative. But most of the time, they are automatic, based on how we feel and on what’s already been programmed into our brains by family, friends, teachers, culture, and our beliefs. For the past decade in the Balkans , this is exactly what has been happening
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Almost every day people in Kosovo and Serbia have been making choices that affect their lives and the lives of others: they decided to kill or be killed; they decided to die fighting or flee; they decided to work at a munitions factory or become a hostage; they decided to become refugees or soldiers; they decided to become victims or perpetrators. The choices made by people in Kosovo and Serbia over the past decade have reverberated around the world with such power that it has shaken its foundations—the entire global order built on notions of sovereignty and nation-states.