ABSTRACT
The balkanization of Yugoslavia was a potent mix of economic recession, ideological control through nationalism and mobilization of mass media; the destruction of cities in Yugoslavia and proclamations regarding rights to land and territory started after the gaining of international support for national self-determination. The 1979 global oil crisis and recession hit Yugoslavia’s precarious economic situation hard. The war-affected Yugoslavia had become a question of international security and one for the international media. Since Bosnia-Herzegovina was more multiethnic than Croatia, and prior to the disintegration of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) considered a Yugoslavia in microcosm, efforts to eradicate heterogeneity there were more extreme. Balkanization as a geopolitical parcelization of the SFRY through dissolution of its long-standing heterogeneity has been operational from the 1990s. The urbicide of the SFRY and the destruction of its cities led to the first international involvement in the form of UN troops.
