the Bosnian War is a clear representation of ethnic conflict gone horribly wrong. Spanning from 1992 to 1995‚ it demonstrated on of the worst displays of mass ethnic cleansing in Europe since World War II. Mainly perpetrated against Bosniaks by the Serbs‚ the Bosnian War left the country of Bosnia in ruins and left millions displaced and thousands killed. John Moore’s Behind Enemy Lines portrays the final days of the war as an American navigator attempts to get out of dangerous enemy territory. Due
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The Balance of Power Theory and It’s Application to Kosovo Ideas are the corner-stones of International Relations and Diplomacy. These ideas are often titled theories‚ a term that grants the ideas a certain degree of credibility in application‚ though they remain theories; they cannot be proved.‚ only applied intelligently in hopes of arriving at the correct conclusion. One theory concerning the Balance of Power (BOP) falls under the Neo-Realist analysis of conflict within the International
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the Roman Empire (conquered the indigenous Celts and Illyrians); the Western- and the Eastern Roman Empires (challenged by the incursions of the Huns‚ the Ostrogoths‚ the Gepidae‚ the Sarmatians‚ the Avars‚ the Serbs‚ the Frankish Kingdom‚ the Croats‚ the Great Moravia‚ the Bulgarians). Serbs formed their first unified state under the Vlastimirovic dynasty by 812‚ at times disrupted by the wars with the aforementioned states. At first heavily dependent on the Byzantine Empire as its tributary‚ in time
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In the early nineteenth century‚ Slavic peoples from multiple empires in eastern and southern Europe began to pursue a movement to protect and organize Slavic culture. In 1848‚ this movement became more political. It gained a reputation and an attempt was made to unify all Slavic peoples. This movement became known as Pan-Slavism. Pan-Slavism appealed to many Slavs who felt nationalism towards their race. However among the Slavs‚ there were many different opinions. Some believed that there was a
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A Plan of Investigation From 1992 to 1995‚ war broke lose in the Balkan Region between Bosnia-Herzegovina‚ and Former Yugoslavia due to Bosnia-Herzegovina new founded independence.Over the three years‚ Yugoslav army which consisted of mostly Serbs killed around 100‚000 Bosnian. They army targeted Bosnian Muslims and Croatians who were living in Bosnian- Herzegovina at the time but created rape camps for Yugoslav Army to rape young girls and women. To determine to what extent did the Yugoslav
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more distant Slovenia and Croatia. Soon these countries started to fight for independence; Slovenia gained its freedom within ten days and although it took much longer Croatia gained its independence from the Serbs afterwards. The largest problem came when Bosnia wanted to separate from the Serbs and these battles for independence soon became genocide behind the Serbian belief of ethnic cleansing. The UN tried to cutoff trade with the Balkans to put an end to the war but ended up just assisting the
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(Austin‚ 1995)‚ with a large ethnic diversity which included 38% Muslims‚ 40% Serbs and 22% Croats (Austin‚ 1995). The calamity began in 1991 (Magas.B‚ 2013) when Bosnia passed a referendum for independence that was supported by the country’s Muslims and Croats‚ but rejected by representatives of the Serb population‚ who established their own republic‚ Republika Srpska. Following Bosnia’s declaration of independence‚ Bosnian Serb forces (supported by the Serbian government)‚ accompanied by the Yugoslav’s
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Fearing the worst‚ Slovenia and Croatia declare independence from Yugoslavia‚ while Bosnian Serbs are quickly trying to organize their armed forces. All this turmoil at home causes Edin‚ the main character and a graduate student who was studying engineering in Sarajevo‚ to return to his homeland in order to protect his family. Days before the beginning of the war‚ the tension between Bosniaks and Serbs is clear as they segregate each other around several parts of the city. In 1992‚ the first attack
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The war happened because Serbs refuse the independence of Bosnia. The top of war happened when serbs dominate the capital of Sarajevo. During the domination of serbs in the capital of sarajevo‚ they do the ethnic cleansing to the society that life there. Be sides do the ethnic cleansing to the society‚ serbs also do genocide‚ tourturing‚ and rape. This war end when the delegations of the three parties that involve
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Likošane area‚ and searched for some of the KLA‚ resulting in the deaths of 16 Albanian fighters and four Serbian policemen. Despite some of the murders and killings of civilians‚ people from Western capitals were not as wanted as they would become later. Serb police began to follow Jashari and his followers in the village Donje Prekaz. A massive firefight at the Jashari compound led to the killing of 60 Albanians‚ eighteen were women and ten were younger than sixteen. On March 5‚ 1998‚ events influenced
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