The Right to Self-Determination and Secession in Yugoslavia: A Hornets' Nest of Inconsistencies

Abstract

Examines problems connected to the implementation of the rights of self-determination & to secession in Yugoslavia, particularly the issue of whether these rights should be exercised by ethnocultural nations or territorial entities. A historical analysis focusing on how Croats, Bosniaks, Serbs, Albanians, Macedonians, & Montenegrins perceived their own national rights within the Yugoslav framework & how they reacted to the international community's approach is employed to explore the extent to which the international community succeeded or failed in finding a consistent approach to these problems, & how its attitudes might be explained. J. Zendejas