World Cup in Motion: European Qualifying Section Kicks Off With New Team!

27 years after its status within #Yugoslavia was drastically + violently diminished, #Kosovo plays its first competitive football game #FIFA

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Kosovo has declared independence a number of times in recent decades, but the 17/02/2008 promulgation ultimately proved decisive #Yugoslavia

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The recognition of #Kosovo shows that the United States still has supremacy in the international system when it comes to sovereignty issues

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Ironically, #Kosovo's international debut comes at a time when cooperation amongst the ex-Yugoslav republics has never looked more necessary

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To watch: #Croatia, #Serbia and #Bosnia could launch some joint sporting, cultural + political institutions by 2020 https://t.co/zCdHzTN9mF

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Srebrenica, 11/07/1995: Remembering a Day of Lost Innocence

The twentieth anniversary of the #genocide at #Srebrenica in Bosnia passes with new victims + mass graves still being discovered #Yugoslavia

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Europe's largest single act of #genocide since the Second World War raises uncomfortable questions about international relations 20 years on

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Arguably, the reputation of the #UnitedNations has still not recovered two decades on from when it abandoned the 'safe area' of #Srebrenica

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The #EuropeanUnion, #Russia, the #UnitedStates and the #OIC also struggled to rise to the simplest of IR challenges in what was #Yugoslavia

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Important to recall that #Srebrenica was not the only 'safe area' abandoned in 1995; justice 'must be pursued' http://t.co/zRcNd1dRNU #law

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From False 9 to No 9: Safet Sušić’s Forward-Free Zone ‘a Pinnacle of Postmodernism’!

Bosnia and Herzegovina – the only new qualifier for the 2014 #FIFAWorldCup – sack Safet Susić, ending a brief affair with #postmodernism #EU

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For the recent #Euro2016 qualifier with #Israel, #Bosnia's now ex-coach called up precisely zero strikers – a unique take on the 'false 9'

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Safet Susić's zero-striker tactical experiment effectively cost him his job as head coach of #Bosnia and Herzegovina; art has a high price

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#Bosnia are now looking for a more conventional, competent coach; #Euro2016 qualifiers throwing up surprises galore http://t.co/3Zvb8S6Dme

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Slovenia Shocker: Former Yugoslav Country ‘In Deepening Media Identity Crisis’!

From today's #Guardian minute-by-minute of #EnglandvsSlovenia. Seems that Eastern #Europe is all the same to some… pic.twitter.com/78nVVQJhzU

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#Slovenia has historically been confused most frequently with #Slovakia – you never see these countries in the same room at the same time…

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Is Small Always Beautiful? Former Yugoslav Republics’ Twenty-First Century World Cup Record ‘Reflects Diminished Global Standing’!

The group stage exits of #Cro and #BiH mean that no team from the former #Yugoslavia has got beyond the first round at any #WorldCup 2000-

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#Cro (2002, 2006, 2014), #Slovenia (2002, 2010), #Serbia+#Montenegro (2006) and #BiH (2014) have all failed to progress > last 16/#WorldCup

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In a world of intense global competition, smaller nation states are increasingly going to have to pool resources to hold their own #WorldCup

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Paradox is that all ex-#Yugoslavia republics have membership of an even larger + more distant federation as ultimate goal #EuropeanUnion #EU

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United '#Yugoslavia' team not impossible in future as cross-border cooperation now accepted as fact; economics may sway the argument #Europe

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Many states now face the choice between maintaining failing status quo and difficult but potentially enriching change http://t.co/2WHLbRiqrR

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Fell on Black Days: Economic Riots Commence in Montenegro!

Tear gas floats and stun grenades fly as #Montenegro becomes the second former Yugoslav republic to erupt in economic protests after #Bosnia

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#Montenegro protests relatively muted as youth #unemployment rate of c. 33% actually quite low by the standards of neighbours, EU periphery

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Just 300 #Montenegrins marched in the capital #Podgorica, c.10% of them detained; new street clashes 'quite possible' http://t.co/VOOBPG3XMy

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Sarajevo, 2014: A Fitting Sequel to 1914!

#Sarajevo burns as unprecedented protests rock #Bosnia-Herzegovina; unemployed and disenfranchised masses take to the streets #BosnianSpring

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Protestors across #Bosnia target #corrupt elite class; politicians' cars and offices 'smashed to smithereens' as #Balkan state erupts #BiH

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#Bosnians 'decide enough is enough': 27.5% #unemployment and surreal administrative duplication engenders sense of hopelessness, frustration

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#Bosnia national team football captain Emir Spahić blasts politicians, could emerge as leader of movement following #2014FIFAWorldCup #BiH

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#Internet penetration in #Bosnia now 52%, #smartphone usage rising; Technology + Incompetence + Corruption = Mayhem http://t.co/TJRQMJsVHE

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