Bunce’s article focuses on the contrast between the dismemberment of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. Her main argument is that institutional commonalities caused the common outcome of state disintegration, but institutional differences is what caused the variation in what came after the breakups of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The key institutional differences explored by Bunce are: (1) the degree of decentralization of the federations; (2) the power of the largest nations versus its institutional endowments; and 3) the politicization of the military. Bunce’s article is useful because it addresses the institutional differences between Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia that may have caused the variation in breakups,
