Word: balkanize
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...thug, but he's a sly and nimble thug. He's chosen the U.S. election season as the moment to bring his confrontation with Montenegro to a head, mindful of the fact that the last thing Washington needs right now is to be dragged into yet another messy Balkan civil war. Milosevic on Thursday stunned his opponents by pushing constitutional changes through parliament that not only allow him to seek a fourth term of office but also diminish the already limited powers of Montenegro's government in the Yugoslav federation...
...while Washington may have insisted that democracy is the precondition for rehabilitating Serbia, that won't necessarily end all of the Balkan troubles: Slobodan Milosevic may be a despot and a demagogue, but the troubling reality is that most of the Serbian opposition accepted the principle that their nation should fight to hold on to Kosovo...
...fact, showed the danger in simply exporting an American conception of democracy into a situation with a very different history. The U.S. led NATO to war against ethnic cleansing, projecting, as an alternative, the notion of a democratic multiethnic Kosovo. Convinced of his own vision of a peaceful Balkan melting pot - as implausible as that sounded to long-term analysts of the region - President Clinton lashed out at anyone who dared to view the conflict instead through the politically incorrect lens of centuries of unresolved tribal hatreds. And yet, a year later, it's increasingly clear that a democratic, multiethnic...
...keep U.S. troops there indefinitely than it is to bring them home. Because while Capitol Hill will inevitably back away from allowing the war to restart, concerns over the safety of the troops means they are unlikely to aggressively pursue and eliminate potential security threats in the troubled Balkan fiefdom. The House of Representatives Tuesday voted to withdraw U.S. forces by next year unless Europe shoulders more responsibility for stabilizing the region, and the Senate will consider similar legislation on Friday. "But even if the legislation passes," says TIME Washington correspondent Massimo Calabresi, "a year from now when...
Prince Alexander, who was born in exile in the United Kingdom, said he fully supports attempts to remove Milosevic, but says he has no plans to be involved in Balkan politics in the future...