Serbia

As we progressed through the course, Modern World, the students were able to see various incidences of how technology either enhanced or deteriorated a civilization or a nation. One of the primary reads in the course was Headrick’s book, Power over Peoples. It is important to look at Headrick’s work and see just what is meant by his title, Power Over People. From what students have gathered, this means the use of technology as a means to gain an edge over another civilization, hence, using your power

In 1997, the world witnessed the second most horrific crime in eastern Europe since the Holocaust: The Srebrenica massacre. Throughout the course of 11 days, over 8,000 Bosniak –Bosnian Muslim- males, specifically those who were of age to join the military, were rounded 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

Human trafficking in a global economy has resulted in the commodification of human souls. In this nomenclature of institutionalized proliferation of terror in a post-conflict, post-communist democratized Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), the trafficking of women has become a manifestation of the grosser changes evolved by globalization in the mainstream market culture of the sex trade. As Bosnia entered into bloodshed with the members of former Yugoslavia between the years of 1992-1995, the ‘cleansing’

Kosovo acted in means that were congruent with achieving independence, as many fights for freedom before them demonstrated (Oxford, 133). Serbia acted to remain in power of territory and people. NATO and the UN acted to prevent further crisis and deaths, also against international criticisms. The United States and Western allies acted to demonstrate their power over and to control their spheres

showed continuous growth and development - from a small family business to one of the most well-known brands in BiH, with a widespread wholesale distribution network and its own retail stores throughout BiH. In 2014, ALMA RAS expanded its business to Serbia by opening its first store in Belgrade, while its export network, apart from Montenegro, Macedonia and Norway, has reached as far as South Korea. Increasing demand also requires additional production capacities, so in 2014, apart from the existing

This breakup, as examined by experts in the embassy in Belgrade and in Washington, was certainly seen as potentially violent and leading to war. Milosevic attempted to cripple the economy of Slovenia by boycotting Slovenian goods and services in Serbia, Vojvodina, and Kosovo. What Milosevic managed to do was

There were a couple of main forces that lead to the outbreak of the war. The first force was called nationalism, which is having a devotion to your nation. Nationalism can be a positive force or a negative force. It can unify nations or cause them to compete against each other. During the 20th century nationalism was a negative force. It caused a rivalry between the Great Powers of Europe. The powers were France, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Great Britain. The rivalry was caused by

One of the youngest nations of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship

Feud I have to admit I am a peaceful person. I do not like quarrels or bad feelings. Life is just too short to waste myself on issues like feud. Feud is all around the world. Feud is an “argument that has been going around for so long between two people or groups”(Dictionary,Kate Woodford page 1). Feud can happen in many ways, it can start by just a simple thing, and it can turn to a bad, dangerous event. A example of feud is on the book “Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain, it really helps us

Influential Serbian poet and writer Matija Beckovic talks of the Serbian sentiment of their status in Kosovo, “Kosovo would be Serbian even if there were not a single Serb living there.” This quote provides an insight into what is highly likely a Serbia-wide perspective of the situation in Kosovo. This suggests that a strong attachment between the Serbs and Kosovo is still present when this quote was presented, this suggestion, if true would strongly contribute to the intractability of the conflict