Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992. It came into existence following World War I,under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs,Croats and Slovenes from the merger of the Kingdom of Serbia with the provisional State of Slovenes,Croats and Serbs,and constituted the first union of South Slavic peoples as a sovereign state,following centuries of foreign rule over the region under the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg monarchy. Peter I of Serbia was its first sovereign. The kingdom gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. The official name of the state was changed to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929.
Since the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s,the foreign policy of the newly established Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was characterized primarily by a desire to secure its political and geopolitical position and the solidarity with ethnic Serbs in other former Yugoslav republics through a strong nationalist campaign. While the country was involved in Yugoslav Wars and therefore exposed to several rounds of devastating sanctions against Yugoslavia this involvement was often denied for political or ideological reasons. In the initial period Federal Republic of Yugoslavia unsuccessfully aspired to gain international recognition as the sole legal successor state to SFR Yugoslavia,the country which was one of the most prominent foreign policy subjects during the Cold War.
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related ethnic conflicts,wars of independence,and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia,which began in mid-1991,into six independent countries matching the six entities known as republics that had previously constituted Yugoslavia:Slovenia,Croatia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Montenegro,Serbia,and Macedonia. SFR Yugoslavia's constituent republics declared independence due to unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries,which fueled the wars. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of new states,they resulted in a massive number of deaths as well as severe economic damage to the region.
After a period of political and economic crisis in the 1980s,the constituent republics of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia split apart,but the unresolved issues caused a series of inter-ethnic Yugoslav Wars. The wars primarily affected Bosnia and Herzegovina,neighbouring parts of Croatia and,some years later,Kosovo.
The Kingdom of Serbia was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia,Milan I,was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817,the Principality was ruled by the Obrenovićdynasty. The Principality,under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire,de facto achieved full independence when the very last Ottoman troops left Belgrade in 1867. The Congress of Berlin in 1878 recognized the formal independence of the Principality of Serbia,and in its composition Nišava,Pirot,Toplica and Vranje districts entered the South part of Serbia.
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of armed conflicts on the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) that took place between 1991 and 2001. This article is a timeline of relevant events preceding,during,and after the wars.
Widespread protests and riots in Serbia and North Kosovo followed the proclamation of independence by the Republic of Kosovo on February 17,2008. Protests were also held by Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Roderick Wemple Moore is the former Raymond Spruance Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport,RI,from 2013 to 2015. During the latter part of 2015,he served as the Chargéd'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Sofia,Bulgaria. From 2010 to 2013,he was the Principal Deputy High Representative and Brcko District Supervisor at the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Sarajevo,Bosnia and Herzegovina. Prior to beginning his assignment at OHR,Moore served for three years (2007–2010) as the first American Ambassador to Montenegro. He was nominated for that posting by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 29,2007. Senator Barack Obama chaired the Senate confirmation hearing in June 2007 at which Ambassador-designate Moore testified. Then Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs,R. Nicholas Burns,swore him in on September 12,2007,in the Treaty Room of the State Department. He arrived in Montenegro and presented his credentials to Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovićon September 18,2007. He left post in August 2010.
Israel and Serbia maintain diplomatic relations established between Israel and SFR Yugoslavia in 1948.
British –Serbian relations are foreign relations between the United Kingdom and Serbia. Both countries established diplomatic relations in 1837. The UK has an embassy and consulate in Belgrade and Serbia has an embassy in London. The Serbian ambassador to the United Kingdom is dr Dejan Popovićand the British ambassador to Serbia is Sian MacLeod.
The modern-day countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia both originated from Yugoslavia. The majority of population in both countries speak one of the standard varieties of Serbo-Croatian and Serbia is one of the largest investors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
James William Pardew Jr. was an American diplomat,international negotiator,military officer,and United States Ambassador to Bulgaria. After serving as a military intelligence officer in the United States Army for 28 years,Pardew entered the arena of international diplomacy with a heavy focus on the Balkans,where he was instrumental in coordinating agreements and peace resolutions,as well as heading major State Department programs such as the Bosnian Train-and-equip program.
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the President of Serbia between 1989–1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his оverthrow in 2000. Miloševićplayed a major role in the Yugoslav Wars and became the first sitting head of state charged with war crimes.
Serbia,as a constituent subject of the SFR Yugoslavia and later the FR Yugoslavia,was involved in the Yugoslav Wars,which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia,the Croatian War of Independence,the Bosnian War,and Kosovo. From 1991 to 1997,Slobodan Miloševićwas the President of Serbia. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has established that Miloševićwas in control of Serb forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia during the wars which were fought there from 1991 to 1995.
Vladimir Leposavić is a Montenegrin lawyer and politician who served as the Minister of Justice and Human and Minority Rights in the Government of Montenegro and the cabinet of Zdravko Krivokapićfrom 4 December 2020 to 17 June 2021. Prior to this,he was a senior legal advisor of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.
Turkey–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between Turkey and now broken up Yugoslavia.
Jonathan Michael Moore is a retired career U.S. diplomat. An officer of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor,he served as the Coordinator of the Health Incident Response Task Force at the U.S. Department of State from November 2021 until his retirement.
