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Swinging the Pendulum: World War II History, Politics, National Identity and Difficulties of Reconciliation in Croatia and Serbia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Srdjan Cvijic
Srdjan Cvijic*
Affiliation:
Department of Law, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Aleksinackih Rudara 4, Rue Africaine 82, B-1060, Brussels, Belgium. Email: srdjan.cvijic@eui.eu
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The downfall of communist Yugoslavia and the democratization process that followed at the end of the 1980s have led to the fragmentation of the country, which was accompanied by several wars of different intensity and duration (1991–1999). From the ashes of what once was the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia raised six independent states: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia. The situation relating to the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, after its unilateral declaration of independence at the beginning of 2008, and subsequent recognition by parts of the international community, remains unclear. Slovenia is already in the EU, while the rest of the former Yugoslav republics, within the framework of the Stabilization and Association Process of the European Union, have the status of EU Candidate or Potential Candidate countries and are slowly moving towards EU membership.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , September 2008 , pp. 713 - 740
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Copyright © 2008 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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