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Article: Self-determination and international recognition policy: an alternative interpretation of why Yugoslavia disintegrated.
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- World Affairs
- Article date:
- June 22, 1997
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THE DEATH OF A SOVEREIGN INDEPENDENT STATE
The coming apart of Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1992 has been referred to variously as the "fall," the "disintegration," the "collapse," and the "tragedy" of Yugoslavia. In reality, Yugoslavia was dismembered through a selective and prejudicial international recognition policy of its internal "republics." Yugoslavia's creation and destruction were fundamentally different from those of the Soviet Union, a legacy of the czarist empire that fell apart because of Gorbachev's liberalizing policies, specifically from the failed military coup of 1991. Yugoslavia was a state created voluntarily in 1918 by its various ...