HIS 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Balkanization, Halliburton, Osama Bin Laden
Document Summary
1990-2000 ethnic & religious con icts in a us-led world: The balkanization of yugoslavia and the war on terror. World trade organization replaces general agreement on trade and tariffs. Movement towards a global system of economic management. An effort to control weapons of mass destruction, treaties are rejected by certain states (ex. Instability in yugoslavia, emergent nationalism, reigned by tito (1945-1980) He had beed a strong leader, he was croatian. Divided into slovenia, croatia, serbia, bosnia, and the former yugoslavia and republic of. Don"t mention macedonia in front of greeks. Slovenia and croatia declare independence in 1991, historic links to europe, catholic. Serbians take up arms and do not recognize the independence. Bosnia wants independence in the beginning 1992, muslim religion. 1994 croatian gets involved with the bosnian muslim population and ethnically cleanses parts of the serbian population. In the bosnia there is a serbian population and a croatian population.