But although states may be blurring a little at the edges, it is only those in which the relationship between the state and its nation or nations is untenable, such as the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, where things break down.
Mr. Robinson brought to the discussion of "The State of The Globe -- Markets, Political Pressures, Risk and Rewards" rich experience in the private and public sectors, having served as the Chase Manhattan Bank's Vice President for the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Yugoslavia and as the Senior Director for International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council.
The Ford staff pointed out that the president meant that Poland and Yugoslavia did not consider themselves part of the Soviet Union, but the damage was done.
Milosevic's transfer to the Hague comes on the eve of an international conference of donors for Yugoslavia in Brussels, sponsored jointly by the European Union and the World Bank.
Like communist Yugoslavia in its dotage, the Soviet Union was being kept afloat by western credit that it would never be able to repay.
The Center for Security Policy continues to believe that U.S. and allied interests would be far better served -- both in the context of former Yugoslavia and as a precedent for other dissolving empires (notably that of the former Soviet Union) -- were the West to align itself squarely with those seeking democracy and free market economic opportunity.
The referendum was only the third such vote in Croatia after it in 1991 voted to secede from Yugoslavia, and last year to join the European Union this summer.
"The common determination on the part of the Soviet Union and the United States to preserve the territorial integrity of such imperial accidents of history as Yugoslavia -- to say nothing of the USSR and Iraq -- under centralized, totalitarian rule is emerging as the ironic definition of the so-called 'New World Order, '" said Frank J.
Now word has emerged that the European Union is likely to let trade preferences for Yugoslavia lapse.
In the way of background, I am an international banker by training, having served as a Vice President in the International Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank with responsibility for Chase's loan portfolios in the former Soviet Union, Eastern and Central Europe and Yugoslavia.
In February this union came into being, consigning the name of Yugoslavia to the dustbin of history.
"Yugoslavia accepts the document for peace brought by the highest representatives of the European Union and Russia, " the official Tanjug news agency said Thursday.
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