Within the next few months, it will become clear whether the western world is learning from the Bosnian experience and aiming for something more ambitious than the mere avoidance of renewed war.

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In any case, Western governments have been learning in the past few months to do business with Islamists.

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Diminishing social mobility, the cult of the celebrity society, the decline in serious learning, the increasing disregard for empiricism and social attitudes verging on valuephobia threaten to cast a shadow on the enlightened western liberalism which has taken us so far.

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