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ample of how international cooperation could move
the world toward peace. It was a high point in U.S.-
Russian relations. The two former Cold War rivals
were able to overcome major policy differences to
push the warring factions into fruitful negotiations.
Within a broader context, it illustrated the leader-
ship that America could give, and was willing to give,
in solving regional conflicts.

Further Reading
Bose, Sumantra.Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Parti-
tion and International Intervention. New York: Ox-
ford University Press, 2002.
Chollet, Derek.The Road to the Dayton Accords: A Study
of American Statecraft. New York: Palgrave Mac-
millan, 2005.
Cousens, Elizabeth M.Toward Peace in Bosnia: Imple-
menting the Dayton Accords. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne
Rienner, 2001.
Donald A. Watt

See also Bosnia conflict; Christopher, Warren;

Clinton, Bill; Cold War, end of; Foreign policy of the

United States; Kosovo conflict; Russia and North

America; United Nations.

 Dead Sea scrolls publication

The Event Dispute over the control and

publication of many previously unpublished

scrolls

Date Available beginning in 1991

Manuscripts of the Dead Sea scrolls were made available to

all people with the requisite language skills to read them.

The Dead Sea scrolls are a group of approximately

nine hundred Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts dis-

covered between 1947 and 1956 in ele

ven caves in bluffs overlooking the western shore of

the Dead Sea. Of these scrolls, very few were found

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Serbian president Slobodan Miloševi 6 , left, Bosnian president Alija Izetbegovi 6 , Croatian president Franjo Tudjman, and U.S. secre-
tary of state Warren Christopher applaud after initialing the Dayton Accords on November 21, 1995.(AP/Wide World Photos)