In Central and Eastern Europe border movements have been so prevalent in the last two centuries that no country can say emphatically where to begin and end its limits, which opens the door to all kinds of revisionist interpretations, often based more on myths and legends than on actual facts. At the end of the cold war in 1989, the consequent political opening gave rise to new divisions (of the USSR in fifteen States of Yugoslavia in seven), few peaceful times, a resurgence of old territorial disputes, that two decades later is far from having been resolved.
Published:
Strategic Studies Institute
Author(s):
Francisco J. Ruiz González. The Institute of strategic studies analyst
