Yugoslavia

does not exist, and this generalized theory represents non-ethnic conflict (p.42). Mueller’s article provided several strengths, which makes the piece of literature a thorough yet interesting analysis of ethnic conflict. Mueller uses the cases of Yugoslavia and Rwanda to explore how ethnicity mobilizing device, played a role in the construction of the appropriate conditions, needed to conduct this particular form of violence (p.43). First, Mueller highlights another perspective by another…

Cassie Niemeier Bosnia List Paper Anyone who says that history is black and white clearly slept through class. There is no simplicity to history. Most events in history are like a Jenga tower. Events stack on top of each other creating a less stable structure until it collapses in on itself, or war breaks out. The Bosnian genocide seems very simple on the surface. In fact, genocide is a rare simple thing in history, a group of people want to eliminate another group of people because the…

Types of tensions that occurred was territoriality and ethnic tensions. Before the tensions between Bosnia and Serbia, they were united as Yugoslavia in the 1980’s and 90’s. They dealt with ethnic conflicts, communist policies, and and economic instability. Because of this, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia (Serbia). However, these nations contained four different ethnic groups. The four main groups were Bosnian Muslims, Serbs, Croatians,…

Body:MILO Milošević was “the former president of Serbia and Yugoslavia”, “he was responsible for the politics that resulted in more than two hundred thousand dead.” It is hard for all of us to believe that a man so evil became president but it is not hard to realize why he was in that position in the first place. Milošević had legal-rational authority, that is what made him so powerful at the time. To me, the way Milošević obtained his authority characterizes him as a calculated oppurtunist who…

1. Harry Truman was the US President from 1945 to 1953. After World War II, he signed the United Nations charter, ratifying the international organization for peace. He also signed the act initiating the European Recovery Program, which supplied sixteen European countries with economic support to rebuild the damaged sites. In Europe, the partitioning of Germany, especially Berlin, added to the increased hostility between the Soviet Union and the western powers. In 1948, Truman created a massive…

War II, Serbs and Croats lived together in their state Yugoslavia. The State was presided by a Croat named Tito, who did his best to reunite his people with what was called “Brotherhood and Unity”. The state flourished until he died. Then everything that once hold Yugoslavs together, split them apart. As seen in class when a ruler’s legitimacy depends on his charisma, his death stipulates the demolition of his ideology. At that time Yugoslavia was a communist country, and it coincided with the…

Wars were also ethnic based conflicts, affecting mainly Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia, all former Yugoslav republics. The reasons behind these wars was mainly down to Slovenia and Croatia wanting to be granted independence from Yugoslavia. Serbs living in Croatia greatly opposed the move and hence the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA) was created. (un.org). However, it became largely under the control of the Serbian government. As a result, its main aim became to create a “Greater…

Many people think that religious differences as a cause of discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. In daily life, we often hear or even see through television that religious differences are often the reason for discrimination, slaughter, and genocide. Many rulers who used religion as a basis for breaking the human race and spark a conflict. Actually, the religious differences can be used as a tool to humiliate a race or other religious groups. The differences in religion can be used as a tool…

The CIA limited success in Vietnam would later lead to great American involvement in the region. The CIA major success in Vietnam was with the plot to overthrow the Diem government, as a means to bring a more reliable government to power. His blatant oppression and chaotic rule made support for him weak both from the American people and South Vietnamese. How could a nation justify fighting for democracy under such an oppressive ruler? The CIA was well aware that before any increased American…

The Bosnian Genocide was the worst act of genocide since the Nazis regime’s destruction of 6 million European Jews during World War 2. The Bosnian Genocide was a complete act of terror to the Yugoslavian people. The Serbian majority seized power after the fall of the previous regime, the victims were treated poorly. The victims were the Bosniak and Croatian civilians, the people involved was the Serbs, and the victims were tortured and beaten to death. The Bosnian Genocide was an act of terror.…