Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...States Conference: To qualify for entrance to this prestigious Western association, your school has to come from a state whose square mileage is larger than its population...
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...Western leader, least of all the domestically minded Clinton, really wants to start shooting in Bosnia. NATO's caution underlined how the Sarajevo ultimatum was about saving NATO's credibility as much as saving Bosnian lives. But the new peace offensive also had a Russian impetus. Moscow, proudly proclaiming that its clever diplomacy had made air strikes unnecessary, told NATO it would not countenance any military campaign against its fellow Orthodox Serbs...
...they did. Under the wings of the doctrines expounded by Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic about the need "to defend the Western borders of Orthodox Christianity" right here, in Bosnia, the Russians managed to assume a position they had only been dreaming about for a long time. And what's more, they have also finally gained access to the "warm sea," the Adriatic. Most ironically, they gained the moral upper hand, to the detriment of NATO, which forfeited any of the moral stature it might have once held...
...Security Council. Worried by Moscow's embrace of the Serbs, "there is real fear they will be ostracized by the world community," said a well-placed foreign observer. As a more positive incentive, "we are offering Croatia the world if they will reverse their policy," said a Western diplomat in Zagreb: money for economic reconstruction and refugee resettlement, loans from the World Bank and associate membership in the European Union. Tudjman, haggard and solemn, appeared on television last week to announce that he backed a Croat-Muslim federation in Bosnia...