Word: secessionism
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Not many did. But it's not wholly by chance that Serb fury over Kosovo's secession has outstripped expectations. Serbia's nationalist leaders have been stoking confrontation. For example, surveillance cameras recorded police being ordered to leave their posts minutes before the crowd gathered for the attacks on foreign...
Secession can often be a good idea. We'd all be eating Marmite and bangers for lunch if the United States hadn't opted out of the British Empire in 1776. But just as often it doesn't work, and with 192 current members of the United Nations and limited...
"We are struggling for what is legitimately ours. We will not tolerate this illegal act of secession," Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told European lawmakers in the French city of Strasbourg.
The mini-republics that the U.S.S.R. released like so many Tootsie Rolls from a piñata in the 1990s have not exactly turbocharged the Central Asian economy. And while Pakistan may have seemed like a nifty idea around the time they cut the ribbon, it's been plagued by...
Some time ago, I ran across a grocery store on the east side of Manhattan that had that odd New York habit of including several names on the same awning, as if they could never quite figure out what to call the place. One of the names - I'm not...