Imaginary borders but real conflicts: separated ex-Yugoslavians

During the Cold War, Yugoslavia was a much courted country due to its geographical location and its strategic potential on the border of the Socialist bloc. However, times have changed, the Cold War has disappeared, Yugoslavia too, for the time being broken down into 7 independent States which have reactivated a highly exclusive concept of the Nation-State (domination by the majority ethnic group), where the notion of State is confused with the majority nation. The large number of physical and symbolic borders reveals a strongly polemogenous area. Adapted from the source document.