Word: secessionism
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Spring rioting by mob marks Lampoon's "secession from the civilized world."
"I think [Kosovo] should remain a part of Serbia and consequently a part of Yugoslavia. There should be some changes in the civil rights of people who live there, but I'm strongly opposed to secession or any independence as a separate state," she said.
It's hard to overstate how remarkable and surprising to most people this war in the name of peace is. On the eve of its 50th birthday, NATO, a defensive alliance founded to protect Western Europe from Soviet invasion, has struck hard at a sovereign state that is not a...
Now Milosevic has again chosen war. Like a shark that has to keep moving to stay alive, he is willfully exposing the withered state of Serbia to the might of NATO for the sake of his own power. As always, he gambled that talk, hopes, threats and indecision would wear...
For most of the century, the notion that borders were sacred prevailed. African and Asian decolonization in the 1960s recognized states along borders set by colonial rulers. It wasn't quite as thoughtless as critics of these "arbitrary" lines that split ethnic groups and ancient kingdoms now charge. At least...