Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Turks called for parliamentary elections, and in result, doubt was placed in the status of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The two provinces had been under Ottoman sovereignty, but were administered by Austria-Hungary since 1878. Serbia wanted to unite with Bosnia and Herzegovina to form a large Serbian kingdom. In opposition, Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina from the Balkans. Austria-Hungary teased Russia with a trade-off, which promised that if Russia accepted the annexation

NATO and US troops were sent to Bosnia to solidify the fragile peace in Bosnia. Conflicts in Bosnia are largely responsible for the unstable Europe and this can alter the Security of the US as well. In addition to all these factors US planned to intervention in to the Bosnia conflict and suppress the conflicts (Carpenter, 1996). American hopes for a continental solution on Bosnia Problem proved unrealistic. The European Community-soon to become the European

Nationalism as a Cause of World War I Matthew Moore Ms. Beck Honors World Cultures Period 3 19 May 2017 Nationalism entails the people of a nation “exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations or supranational groups.” The concept of nationalism, essentially an extremist’s angle to patriotism, fueled the actions of many countries heading into World War I. Before the war, nationalism had

Perhaps one of the biggest points of contention in Serbia is nationalism and identity. Serbian nationalism is especially unique due to its particular ethnic implications. It can be traced back to the rise of nationalism in the Balkans during Ottoman rule. Serbia has existed between various empires and nation states. Many Serbians voice the need for self-autonomy, often citing being ruled by outsiders for hundreds of years. Today Serbia seen by its people as an unfinished state. Thus, the need for

Balkan nationalism is not an underlying long-term cause of World War I, but it is definitely what set everything that happened in the years 1914-1918 into motion. In the early 20th century, Balkan was inhabited by numerous ethnic groups (referred to as Slavs), where most of them lived in Serbia. The Balkans is located between the two great powers Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire, something that led to a lot of tension and unstableness. When the Ottoman Empire crumbled in the late 19th century

up, and killed by the Bosnian Serb army. The army’s defense for their actions was that they were trying to reunite Serb territory after the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina became its own state. Despite this claim, the ICTY still charged Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, two of the men who spearheaded the ethnic-cleansing campaign in Bosnia, with war crimes including genocide. However, scholars debate whether Srebrenica, albeit horrible, and other instances like itself, being labeled a genocide

as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II. The Soviet Union took control of Yugoslavia after the war and wrote a new constitution for the country that established six constituent republics in the federation: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. The Republic of Serbia also had two self-governing provinces: Vojvodina and Kosovo. Yugoslavia was a part of the Soviet Union until the Union dissolved in 1991 and as a result Yugoslavia

annexation of the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which it had occupied militarily since 1878. This sudden appropriation caused a state of severe international tension among the other countries, especially Serbia in view of the fact that these provinces were mostly Serbian in population. Regrettable this abrupt annexation triggered a tremendous upheaval and outrage from Serbia whose reaction was of pure exasperation since they always looked at Bosnia and Herzegovina as an eventual legacy. Accordingly

territory were abused by the Serbs, and when Croatia received full independence in 1992, the Croatians took revenge on the Serbs. In the same year, the Bosnian War began between the Serbs and Croats over the newly declared independent Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In an act of revenge for the loss of the Croatian War and the aftermath from it, the Serbs took revenge in the form of

SURVIVORS OF WARTIME RAPE IN REPUBLIKA SRPSKA IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA." Amnesty International Publications (2012). Amnesty International’s purpose is “to analyze the failure of the authorities to respect the right to reparation of survivors of wartime rape.” (AI) This purpose is legitimate as out of the tens of thousands of women who were victims of wartime rape, “fewer than 40 cases have been prosecuted.” (AI) The governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina are cited to have numerous new legislation being