Yugoslavia

that group’s customs, beliefs, or language”. Ethnicity defines many of us but a few want our definition to be “cleansed” and this is when civil conflict arises. Ethnicity is frequently cited as an explanation for conflicts in the post cold war era. Yugoslavia, a prime example of a system that encountered ethnic conflict that led to a violent civil war, consisted of six republics and two autonomous districts. The government at the time wanted control of these republics but the republics wanted to be free

Drnovsek, Janez. "Riding the Tiger: The Dissolution of Yugoslavia." World Policy Journal 17.1 (2000): 57-63. ProQuest. Web. 5 Feb. 2016. In Drnovsek’s scholarly article he investigates how the collapse of Yugoslavia started after President Tito’s death. He analyzes that after Tito’s death central power started to dissolve and the six republics of Yugoslavia broke off and started to work independently in different directions, also the Communist party became decentralized (Drnovsek 58). He outlines

1. Introduction Whilst both Palestine have distinct cases for statehood, there cases have also many similarities. Kosovo struggle for statehood has been going on since the collapse of Soviet Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. Whilst the Palestinian campaign for statehood has endured since 1948. Examining both of their cases under the theories of statehood and recognition, neither country emerges with a conclusive case for statehood. However, Palestine has the objectively easier case. In order

it as being the result of ancient ethnic hatred. The first phase of Yugoslavian disintegration can be attributed to the conditions of the people living in Kosovo, an autonomous province of Yugoslavia. In 1981, the socioeconomic conditions in Kosovo were far worse than those in the other republics of Yugoslavia. Poverty was rampant and unemployment was around twenty percent as compared to about two percent in Slovenia that same year. The standard of living in Kosovo was deplorable and whatever aid

Milovan Djilas, a prominent leader of the Yugoslav Partisan movement during World War II and the Vice President of Yugoslavia under Josip Tito, was the epitome of an idealist. When the 1930s drew to an end and the idealism that emerged after World War I dwindled, the states adopted a more realist perspective; they began acknowledging the importance of power in politics and the international system. However, Milovan Djilas clung onto idealism. He rested his faith on the unrealistic expectation of

huge gathering of Serbs assembled on the site of the battle of Kosovo Polje, where an Ottoman army inflicted a crushing defeat on Serbian forces 600 years earlier, he launched a campaign to restore Serbian greatness that resulted in the break-up of Yugoslavia, amid the worst atrocities and violations of human rights since the end of the Second World War. While the formidable Serb-led Yugoslav army was used against Croats too, the worst excesses and “ethnic cleansing'; took place against the

Known as Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II, the Yugoslav Wars (also known as the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, the Yugoslav Civil War, or the War in the Balkans) were a series of wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. Though the entire conflict can be divided up into four distinct wars, they are related due to their common origin and the presence of the same ethnoreligious groups in the multiple wars. These wars have become notorious due to the atrocious war crimes

republics thats formed Yugoslavia would come together and blend beautifully to create a perfect concoction of skill and heart to battle against the elite European soccer clubs. But this team served as just a crumbling monument to what could have been, winning the most prestigious award in club soccer. In 1991 Red Star won the Champions Cup, but that was really when the geopolitical situation started to spiral with war erupting. As war and conflict truly engulfs that majority of Yugoslavia as the country

International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia   On May 25, 1993, U.N. Security Council Resolution 827 established an international tribunal charged with prosecuting violations of international law arising from the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. Not since the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, following World War II has an international court tried individuals accused of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. The International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY), which was established

Introduction. “The taking of hostages was an immoral act. We had to do whatever we could just to eliminate that dirty story from the history of Serbs.” (Slobodan Milosevic in an interview for the Time magazine, 1995). In the 1990s Yugoslavia was the battlefield of Europe’s bloodiest war since 1945. This notorious culmination was a product of an interconnected chain of events which began in the mid-1980s with the deepening of the conflict and the extremely strained relations between the two major