Yugoslavia is dead. I noticed this news article about
the final breakup between Serbia and Montenegro, and
I always enjoy reading history. There's a lot of
history in that region.

http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/...090r_page2.htm

One quote jumps out at me.
It was an experiment in social engineering, in which the peoples of the region were used as guinea pigs -- first, by the West and then by the communists -- to test utopian theories about the virtues of multinational nation-building and the evils of small national states.
Notice the use of the term "social engineering".
The younger generation of computer users will only be familiar with the (mis)use of this term
in computer hacking, but this is the classic meaning, and totally different.

BTW, the author seems to applaud the breakup of experimental multi-ethnic
states. How soon before we see the USA dissolving the same way? Isn't it
built on the same idealistic assumptions?