... Serbian territory and the Serbs in Croatian lands. "The awakening of Nationalism in Europe in the course of the nineteenth century, despite the aspiration towards Liberalism ,took, in Croatia, the short sighted form of oppression against the Serbs." (Lavergne 7) the main claim of Croatian nationalism was the historical claim of territory. it is important to point out that the relationship between ... level with the major symptoms, let alone the underlying causes.Yugoslavi thus broke up under the combined weight of economic failure, nationalist rivalries built on ethnic and territorial d...

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... done so for over forty years under Tito's regime? How could neighbours start killing eachother? Different writers have adressed the problem of the solution of the violence in Yugoslavia. In short, Huntington suggests in his article The clash of Civilizations that the solution is found in greater cooperation and unit of the West, since conflicts like these will happen more often ... are al due to the faultline running right through the country. He argues that it is necesary to know how these people that used to live like neighbours, in such a short period became aware of the fact that th...

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... of Kosovo in 1389, paraded around Serbia - (Moseley, 1995). Moseley, Ray (1995). "Balkans: Unhappy history fans flames of Serb nationalism."" The Ottawa Citizen September 17, 1995, Final Edition: A3. In short, what Milosevic has done, is to preserve and artificially enhance memory. In the Battle of Kosovo, the Serbs fought alongside Albanians and Bosnians (Dedijer et al., 1974) Dedijer, Vladimir et ... ...

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... territory in the Balkans, and make their presence notable. In 1911 Italy declared war on Turkey and began the second Balkan crisis. Italy conquered Tripoli and the Dodecanese Islands in a short time and made an example of Turkey. Following Italy's example Bulgaria, Greece, and Serbia waged war on Turkey for the purpose of gaining more territory in the Balkans. Again, Turkey ... ...

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