War and external pressure transformed Bosnia from pluralist to Islamist state

Evidence

The intensification of religious identity produced by war and ethnic cleansing, the preferences of its leaders, and the support and pressure from other Muslim states were slowly but clearly transforming Bosnia from the Switzerland of the Balkans into the Iran of the Balkans. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 749

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle: the ‘Switzerland of the Balkans’ as a lost pluralist ideal — how easily a multiethnic ideal collapses under ethnic cleansing plus external patron pressure, and what that portends for other pluralist experiments.
• DEEPTHINKING: The compression here — a teeming multiethnic ideal reduced to a single-phrase transformation by ‘war, leaders, and external pressure’ — is a dense causal claim about how identity engineering fails against demographic and geopolitical forces.