Summary
This month, voters in the republic of Montenegro will choose its future direction. But the decision of this tiny electorate, smaller than the number electing a mayor or council in many cities, may have much wider international implications.
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Making States
WHEN SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, THE FORMER Serbian leader died in his cell at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague on March 11, many western commentators rushed to say that this was the end of an era. In the 1990s some of them might have covered the Yugoslav wars and thus for them, the death was a punctuation mark. In the Balkans, however, it was seen as no such thing.
Since his fall in October 2000, Milosevic had ceased to have any political power or influence in Serbia. But millions of people across th...See the full content of this document
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