The suggestion that prostitution has become a cottage industry in Bosnia following the withdrawal of most of the foreign soldiers and international civil servants— ‘‘internationals’’—who had come there immediately after the war, is an interesting one. There is a good literature on large-scale prostitution and trafficking in postconflict situations, some of it cited by Dawson, and the British writer Misha Glenny’s new book, McMafia (2008), adds further details that were presumably not available to Dawson when he was writing. What has not much been studied, to my knowledge, is what happens after the richer clients—foreign soldiers and even richer, the ‘‘internationals’’ who staff peace-keeping and other well-intentioned missions—leave for the more rewarding pastures of new crisis zones. For those interested in trafficking and other forms of victimization, the careers of those local women who remain in prostitution after the foreigners have left is presumably not an interesting topic; scholars of trafficking, like ‘‘internationals’’ specializing in peacekeeping, thrive on situations of crisis, not its less attention-getting (and less funding-attractive) aftermath. If he is correct in his assertion, Dawson has thus made a valuable contribution by looking at a topic not often studied. However, he seems to me to have not yet presented sufficient evidence to support more than a research proposal, on whether in fact prostitution is Bosnia has developed as a ‘‘cottage industry,’’ in the way that his very limited data indicate might be happening. Dawson describes one ‘‘case study’’ of a woman who is living in a house owned by a man with whom she had a relationship simultaneously ‘‘loving and disturbed.’’ Evidence that she was a prostitute is found in the items (unspecified) on her clothes line, as well as the fact that her friend brought other men to the house. This is thin description, to coin a term, very slender evidence on which to hang a hypothesis that this one woman is a prostitute, much less that she represents some kind of new pattern of ‘‘cottage