In this essay I will argue why the Yugoslavian separation came about violently and the Czechoslovakian separation was achieved rather peacefully. Yugoslavia separated violently because they faced what is known as primordialist nationalism where several ethnicities that had different cultural, linguistic, and religious ideas which led them to want different outcomes of separation where they were unable to negotiate. The separation of Czechoslovakia was rather different because they were faced with what is known as instrumentalist nationalism where the conflict resonated from economic and political problems; the Czechs and Slovaks believed that if they negotiate and nationalize into two different states they would economically benefit from this
