Word: balkanize
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Drnovsek suggested that his country, which now has a democratic government, a solid economy and is currently applying for membership in the European Union and NATO, might be used as a foil to understand why governments in other Balkan states have failed to remain stable and peaceful...
...opinion that America had to take a leadership role in this situation," he said. "The European leadership [in past Balkan conflicts] became tools in the hands of Serbian propaganda. Europe is just too much in the possession of nationalism to make rational decisions in this conflict...
...have already seen action, until you consider the nearly 3,000 fully armed support G.I.s who follow those weapons everywhere they go. Even as Clinton, his aides and his allies insisted that they were not contemplating a ground war, the President was in the process of moving soldiers onto Balkan soil...
Bass said the public feels the NATO waited too long during the ethnic cleansing by Bosnian Serbs before intervening. Now, he said, the U.S. wants to avoid making the same mistake in this new Balkan conflict...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, the least Balkan of men, formulated the American theology of forward spin. He might have been speaking to the Balkans when he asked, "Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory...