The EU and the disintegration of Yugoslavia

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/12/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

European union

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Summary :

Introduction.
On the brink of civil war: Misunderstanding, incomprehension and division.
1. Yugoslavia: An explosive situation.
2. The West: Division of the European Union
3. Improbable attempts at maintaining peace in Yugoslavia.
The EU between idleness and unsuccessful attempts in Yugoslavia.
1. Case studies: Slovenia and Croatia, two very different situations.
2. From Brussels: Dilemma and incapacity to stop the war.
3. On the field: The insufficiency of some success.
Bibliography.

Abstract

In order to better understand the disintegration of yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s, it is interesting to recall that yugoslavia was first created in 1918, and was dismembered firstly during World War Second. Then, it has been dismembered once more with the collapse of the USSR at the end of the 1980s, causing the above-mentioned disintegration. Moreover, between its creation in 1918 and its final disintegration, the Yugoslavian State has been confronted to highly different regional, religious and ethnic composition, which provoked the issues of the fragility and the legitimacy of it, creating instability and great hostility from some people such as Goebbels during the interwar period, who said that yugoslavia was "a questionable patchwork of states".