Review article

The Break-Up of Yugoslavia and European Security

Božidar Javorović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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 Montenegro; and continuing Serbian pressure on Macedonia. The author concludes that decisivie international intervention is necessary to prevent deepened conflict and its spread to neighbouring countries.

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Hrčak ID:

111078

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111078

Publication date:

1.2.1994.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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