Ullman raises some rather interesting points. In a very non-stereotypical way, meaning that he does not adapt to the pre constructed ideologies of the West that tries to impede in the Balkan region by granting all of the state independence. More bluntly, he does not follow typical American foreign policy procedures, where they implant themselves in the troubled region for their own economic and political gain. Something that I am going to call a one trick solution, where temporarily that might control the outbursts, but permanently it does more damage than good. He talks about how the conflict of the Balkans will never really be resolved; the only thing that is “keeping the peace” is the threshold of the European powers (Ullman, 1996, pg. 3). He makes the claim that the Balkans are an unresolved dangerous territory that have only survived the amount of time they have without any conflicts due to the other European powers, having a high threshold and basically acting as a parental …show more content…
The Croatian conflict lies right in the heart of the disagreement between urbanized Serbs and their rural relatives, and all of the key political figures most definitely underestimated the amplitude of differences between these two groups (Glenny, 1994, pg. 3-5). Croatian President Franjo Tudjman has just as much fault in the conflicts as does the Serbian President. He created a very big problem, by labelling and viewing the urban Serbs as overall representative of all “Croatian Serbs” (Glenny, 1994, pg.