Word: balkanize
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TIME.com: Macedonia is turning into the next Balkan nightmare faster than anyone expected. Albanian rebels fought pitched battles Friday with the Macedonian police and army for control of Tetovo, the country's second city. Has a civil war become inevitable...
...inside Serbia established as part of the cease-fire agreement that ended the war in Kosovo. The symbolic significance of that decision cannot be understated: It's a clear a message to the region's Albanian nationalists that NATO plans to respond aggressively to any further attempts to redraw Balkan borders - and that the Western alliance is prepared to underscore its position by force. U.S. troops wounded a number of Albanian guerrillas in firefights around Tanusevci earlier this week...
...Kosovo: Albanians participate fully in political life and in the current government, and the insurgency inside Macedonia by Albanians who fought in Kosovo has infuriated most of that territory's Albanian leaders. Still, NATO is taking strong preemptive action precisely to head off the potential for a new Balkan...
...NATO members, particularly the United States, had hoped by now to be able to start reducing its troop commitments in the Balkans. But the first thaws of spring have once again ushered in the traditional Balkan fighting season, and there's plenty of work, once again, for peacekeepers...
...toward Russia. Americans noticed he didn't say nato. What if the dispute on missile defense grows into divergent stances toward Moscow? What if Europe and the U.S. disagree about how to balance China and Taiwan? "We came close at one stage to being on opposite sides of the Balkan conflict," Howard recalls. "If these world problems turn into a cockpit of rivalry between Europe and North America, we could be in for a very awkward time...