Word: region
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...Balkans' woes are from over. Kosovo's Albanians still want independence, but most of NATO is inclined to keep the territory nominally under Serb sovereignty although autonomous for all practical purposes. European NATO powers fear full-blown independence will link Kosovo with Albania, and prompt new conflicts throughout the region. But recent attacks on NATO forces by Albanian nationalists seeking to colonize a tiny strip of ethnic-Albanian inhabited Serb territory just across the border from Kosovo are a sign that some Albanians won't be taking no for an answer, and may be hoping to provoke a showdown with...
...bloodletting in Bosnia and to drive Yugoslavian troops out of Kosovo. He also funneled support to the Serbian opposition parties that helped bring Milosevic down. But the equilibrium he?s leaving behind is unstable - five years after the Dayton Accord and 18 months after the Kosovo cease-fire, the region's old enemies show no greater inclination to just get along...
...Bush Challenge: Make good on its promises to reverse the humanitarian interventionism of the Clinton years without jeopardizing alliances or being seen as the catalyst that plunges the region back into...
...Clinton has fought hard to back the embattled government, and won bipartisan support for his plan. But a growing number of skeptics in his own party, and in the U.S. armed forces, believe the policy is unlikely to end either Colombia's civil war or narcotics traffic from the region...
...deal, and may take a more skeptical look at Pyongyang?s intentions - at least while it's fighting for funds for its missile defense plans. But the moves towards rapprochement with North Korea are strongly backed by South Korea and Japan, the two most important U.S. allies in the region, as well as by China, and while the Bush White House may be tempted to slow down, it's unlikely to try and reverse the course...