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Raspad Jugoslavije i sigurnost u Evropi
The Break-Up of Yugoslavia and European Security

Author(s): Božidar Javorović
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Political history, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: dissolution of yugoslavia; Europe; security; conflict; international scene;

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the causes of the break-up of Yugoslavia and shows that the main cause was the expansion of the Greater-Serbia idea, but was also contributed to by a number of internal problems and changes in the international scene. After the break-up of Yugoslavia, a number of processes are still active and generating conflict: the goal of Serbian expansionists to create a Greater Serbia; the lack of a solution to the Bosnia conflict; the .Albanian desire for an independent Kosovo state; Muslim aims of autonomy in Sandjak; a growing sovereignty movement in Monte Negro; and continuing Serbian pressure on Macedonia. The author concludes that decisive international intervention is necessary to prevent deepened conflict and its spread to neighboring countries.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/1994
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 99-112
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Croatian