As you point out, a Yugosphere is now emerging in place of Yugoslavia of old (“Entering the Yugosphere,” August 22, 2009). Two decades after political bonds were severed by a vicious war, quotidian links between companies, professions, and individuals are being restored on the quiet. After all, Croats, Bosnians, Serbs, and Montenegrins speak the same language with minor variations. They like the same music and food. They have similar fears, worries, and hopes. Just like the European Union, which was founded to cement peace on the traumatized continent, the Yugosphere can be hoped to cement peace in the Western Balkans. Hooray! All this is music to the ears of many people from former Yugoslavia, but the Yugosphere will still have to wait for the violent minority that broke up the country to grow toothless and pass away. This will take another two or three decades at least. In the meanwhile, the Yugosphere is destined to remain but another commendable pipedream of the European Union.