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Institutional problems of ethnic federation: The case of SFRY

Abstract

The article analyzes the disintegration of Yugoslav statehood focusing on institutional problems of ethnic federation. The author describes main factors of the collapse of the Yugoslav Federation and the emergence of independent Bosnia and Croatia. Economic inequality between republics, economic nationalism, the weakening of the center and the communist party fragmentation are examined.

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O. G. Kharitonova
МГИМО-Университет; ВШЭ
Russian Federation


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