All Bosnians Now?

One interpretation of events in Bosnia-Herzegovina is that over recent weeks we have been receiving direct satellite images from Thomas Hobbes’s “state of nature.” The accompanying commentary has been mainly outrage and lamentation, punctuated by demands that something be done, by some outside agency, to remove the continual fear and the danger of violent death—to restore what, in those conditions, people are no longer so shy about calling “civilization” or &#...