Serbs

In 1914 Gavrilo Princip, a member of the Serbian Black Hand, assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, instigating an immediate cause of World War I. As the third largest European power by area, the Empire was a powerful presence leading up to World War I, with a population of over fifty million people and an army of 400,000 soldiers. The conflicts among European powers and the disorder in the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries led to a situation in which

they failed due to NATO “military annex” (Gibbs). Once the negotiation agreements failed, the US sided with the Albanians and proceeded to attack the Serbians. In their attack, the US used it superior technology (planes) to gain an advantage over the Serbs. Rather than constantly sending men in to harm’s way, the US released a series of air raids to flush out the Serbians. Now, from reading this one may think that the US fully achieved its goal by flushing out the Serbians which they did, but there is

The program called for autonomy and language rights but most importantly it asserted that Croats and Serbs were a single people. This display of unity alarmed ruling circles but had little practical impact at the time as Belgrade Serbs paid little attention to Croatian politics. The ethnic tensions that were present in Croatia in the late 19th century were accompanied by a break down in Austro-Serbian

The animosity among Catholic Croats, Orthodox Serbs, Moslem Bosnians, Orthodox Macedonians and Muslim Albanians, led to Yugoslavia’s wars of the 1990s. Nonetheless, there were some hopeful elements and countervailing examples of humanistic values and peaceful coexistence prevailing among people of these ethnicities: the efforts of Yugoslav politicians who were attempting to address disputes through negotiation rather than violence, the steps taken by the United Nations to stem the violence, the actions

Religion is deeply rooted in Serbia's history and is to blame for much of the violence the nation has seen recently.7 The people adopted Orthodox Christianity in the late 9th century.8 The church played an instrumental role in helping the Serbs maintain a national identity during nearly five-hundred years of Ottoman rule.9 In Serbia, each ethnic group has also been divided along religious lines. This distinction is largely to blame for the ethnic violence in the region; especially in Kosovo

society unless the government passed laws allowing them to be or if the superior ethnic groups accepted them into their society. The violence used during the war destroyed the hopes for making Bosnia diverse. As verified by Black, “Although Bosnian Serbs, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Muslims had been able to live together for decades, the bloodshed of the 1990s nearly destroyed hopes for a multiethnic Bosnia.”

of the 19th Century stemmed the increasing tensions between Serbia and Austria-Hungary that began to especially take shape during the Balkan Wars. Serbs, Bulgarians and Albanians all wanted to establish independent nation-states, and their efforts to do so threatened Austria-Hungary. Serbia sought out to build a state that would include all ethnic Serbs, which resulted in being openly hostile towards Austria-Hungary, a nation containing large amounts of Serbian minorities. Serbia was prepared to carry

independence, with various levels of violence accompanying. Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter ‘Bosnia’) suffered the worst brutality with the Muslim population (45%) being outgunned by the better equipped Serbs (32%) and the Croats (18%). (8) Ethnic cleansing, particularly as practised by the Serbs, included large-scale starvation and massacre of unarmed civilians. The UN Security Council authorized the deployment of a peacekeeping force whose mandate was later expanded to include more forceful military

With tensions rising in Ukraine, Syria becoming a site of possible military intervention and the Arab Spring movement prolonging internal conflict, It is important to look at examples from the near past to understand the reasons behind trends so we might mitigate in a productive and beneficial way. Also it is imprtant to understand the trends that occur after particular events so we might predict future needs. This report will look at two developing countries, Serbia and Bosnia and Hercegovina(BIH)

Q6. Ethnic tensions became such a severe problem in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia due to the fact that it would be a dividing factor in the nation. With the ethnic groups separating from each other, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia would begin to weaken and crumble. The ethnic tensions would cause the different ethnic groups to separate from each other, they no longer agreed with each other. Nationalism would be the major cause of this severe problem, the people had pride in their ethnic groups