Serb. Serb. Croat. Bosnian?

Now the not-quite-so-entertaining research paper. The stuff that I have been reading lately has been some pretty dense material. I just read an article from the Eastern European Quarterly (that one isn't on my normal reading list) and it was interesting and informative, after you read it several times. I needed to use a highlighter extensively, but I feel that this source was very authoritative and informative. It discussed how intra-ethnic competition in nationalist political parties lead to a deviation from the moderate and toward more inter-ethnic conflict. This was the leading problem causing the long held ethnic tensions to rise during the transition from Marshal Tito's Yugoslavian Communism to democracy, which the ethnic conflicts prevented from happening. I feel that my grasp of this topic is much better than just a few days ago, but this is a very complicated political situation that has been developing for twenty years, so I need to focus my research more, so that I don't end up with a twenty page thesis paper.

As for the individual independence movements, Slovenia was peaceful because most are Slovenes in that region. Croatia and Serbia caused the most conflict, each claiming parts of Bosnia and engaging in ethnic warfare over several cities, in which there were sizable populations of both Croats and Serbs, and each group wanted to be part of their respective country. In Kosovo, the Muslims were persecuted by the Serbs, which eventually led to the independence of Kosovo and Montenegro, both provinces of Serbia. Macedonia I do not now so much about. Bosnia-Herzegovina was a separate republic created by international forces since that Croats and Serbs both wanted the territory.

Hey I have way too much information and my next object will be focusing on one specific topic, possibly how the disintegration in the 90s has caused the recent independences of Kosovo and Montenegro.