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Montenegro: A Miracle in the Balkans?
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 18, Number 2, April 2007
- pp. 152-159
- 10.1353/jod.2007.0021
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When 55.5 percent of the citizens of Montenegro voted on 21 May 2006 to sever the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro and make their republic a fully sovereign country in its own right, they set the capstone on a political shift that has been noteworthy for its peaceful and orderly conduct in a region which has seen a great deal of chaos and bloodshed since the breakup of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.