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What Is Civil War in the Digital Age? — with Barbara F. Walter

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Serbs Need to Stick Together, Not Just Vote for a Serb

All the democracies that experienced civil war between 19 60 and 19 95 had majoritarian presidential systems. None were proportional representation systems. And that matters in the context of ethnic factions. I'm going to give you an example. At the end of the soviet era, the former yugoslavi suddenly was able to pick whatever type of political system it wanted to. Very quickly, competitive elections were held throughout yuguslava. And you had the former communist leaders. Slobinon molosevitch had been a member of the communist party. He knew that if he had to face competitive elections, that yuguslavs were not going to vote for him. They

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