Word: liberationism
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Fierce firefights have raged across the country since last Wednesday's announcement that a "peace deal" will be signed on Monday, as Albanian nationalist guerrillas press to expand their range of operations despite NATO?s hopes of persuading them to disarm once a new political order has been negotiated. And...
Arafat's problem is that the longer the intifada persists, the more remote becomes his cherished Palestinian state - and his own relevance to the future of his people. His own diplomatic and political standing today, and the very raison d'?tre of the power structure atop which he sits, has...
The bitterness engendered by the conflict militates against the government backing down from its rejection of Western-authored constitutional changes designed to improve the position of ethnic-Albanians in Macedonia - specifically, the proposal that Albanian be recognized as a second official language in public life. Macedonia's Slavic majority sees...
The government rejects the proposal as a device that will turn Macedonia into a binational state, and ultimately lead to partition. The rebel National Liberation Movement insist they are simply an armed civil rights movement - think Dr. King with a Kalashnikov - whose ultimate objectives are simply to effect constitutional changes...
The presence of Western peacekeeping troops in the Balkans has stabilized Bosnia and Kosovo (except, of course, for those unfortunate enough to belong to any of the territory?s non-Albanian minorities). But the nation-building project remains somewhat stillborn: democratic elections in the various ethnic cantons of Bosnia routinely...