Having served as the Ombudsperson for Human Rights in the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo and observed the negotiations over the Dayton Accords (or the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina), Haller (Johann Wolfgang Goethe U., Germany) came to the conclusion that there are fundamental differences between Western Europe and the United States on questions of state sovereignty, nationalism, and religious difference that hardly originated with the current Bush administration. Finding European approaches to be superior, at the very least in regards to Bosnia and Herzegovina, he describes how these differences manifest in different negotiating styles and demands and traces their roots back to the Westphalian primacy of the state in Europe versus the primacy of society over the state in the New World. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)