Suchergebnisse

The bauxite deposits of Bosnia-Hercegovina were first tapped under the direct influence of foreign interests and capital in the 1930s. With this, the mining industry in Bosnia-Hercegovina experienced structural change. The industry had been established on the mining of coal, iron ore and salt. The needs of the Third Reich stimulated the production of bauxite in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the extent that it came to dominate total mining output, and Bosnian-Hercegovinian production made up 45.5% of that total by 1937. The improtance of bauxite for the strategic (military and economic) interests of the Third Reich, which expected to supply 25% of its needs from Bosnian-Hercegovinian and Dalmatian mines, had an important impact on strategic developments in this region. and ultimately even beyond during the course of the war. (SOI : CSP: S. 357)

The original NATO strategy regarding Yugoslavia has, despite its military triumphs, proved deficient for achieving the planned political objectives. That is why the existing alliance strategy has been given up and replaced by a new one. This change of direction is under way; the success of NATO's entire military action hinges on its success, as do the relations on the Balkans and the future of NATO's new strategic concept designed in late April at the Washington summit. (SOI : S. 67)

After World War Two there have been opposing views of the role and the importance of the state in international affairs. Some think that the importan the state is slowly decreasing, since the increasing interdependence of the wo has an enormous influence on internal and foreign policies of a state. On the hand, some point out that the state has not lost any of its importance and tha the contrary, this importance will only be enhanced since the world community has not as yet come up with a model by which to replace sovereign state entities. States generate the structure which has a significant influence on individual group security. This particularly applies to the post-cold-war period since th problems and the threats of the present-day world - economic collapse, politic oppression, poverty, ethnical conflicts, nature degradation, terrorism, crime diseases - directly affect many other elements of security. It is these very problems that turn our attention to the state as the most important institution of the day world which still has at its disposal the resources for reducing or eliminating these threats. (SOI : PM: S. 43)