Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to be involved in a classic civil war or international war. Suddenly we have something new, which is the failed state. No more government. Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda: no more government. Military people discovered that they're deployed not for a few months, but maybe for a few years, because they can't leave until the country is reconstructed. Then the members say, "But do we want to be there forever? What for?" It begins with no solution in Yugoslavia. And no solution in Somalia. There has been a multiplication of similar situations, along with the feeling that...
...they could tighten economic sanctions on Serbia, the Bosnian Serbs' backers and suppliers. Second, they might expand and police the security zones around six mostly Muslim areas. Finally, as a last resort, the Bosnian government might be exempted from the international arms embargo that affects all of the former Yugoslavia but hurts the Muslims and Croats most...
Russia became the latest negotiator to abandon the Bosnian Serbs. Andrei Kozyrev, the Russian foreign minister, announced that his country would refuse to come to the aid of Bosnian Serbs if an all-out war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Even the Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, has warned the recalcitrant Bosnian Serbs by threatening to cut off their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they...
...anything to force them to accept the peace plan," says TIME Central European bureau chief James Graff.RUSSIA . . . PLAYING THE BOSNIA CARD? It's a sideline squabble to the Bosnian conflict, but it may have significant consequences: Russia is insisting that peacekeeping operations in the embattled former Yugoslavia remain in the hands of the United Nations--not NATO. But with the U.N. threatening to pull its troops out, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains the only legitimate body left to enforce peace in Bosnia. So why are Russians choosing this issue--and time-- to get difficult? Quick entry into NATO...
...Bosnian Muslims followed the Serbs' lead, and deep-sixed the latest proposal for peace in former Yugoslavia. Since the Bosnian Serbs are being held responsible for defeating the peace plan in the first place, it's up to the West to decide how to punish them--and all the options threaten to lead to another round of bloody fighting in the region. "The West is now backed into a corner, and it has to act," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief James Graff. In another ominous sign, U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry was forced to cancel plans to visit Sarajevo...