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Conflicts at the outbreak and the end of the Cold War: International community and sustainable peace in the context of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the collaboration on the Korean Peninsula

The Cold War as an ideological conflict of two military-political blocs – the west one led by the USA and the east one led by the USSR – in a number of ways influenced and changed the world. Not only during its duration (1945-1991) but also later because the comprehensive changes which it caused largely influenced the political circumstances within particular countries and regions in the post-Cold-War period. The political division of the Korean Peninsula up to this day is a direct consequence of Cold War circumstances and the result of the first big ‘hot war’ within the Cold War (1950-1953). On the other hand, the Cold War is also a crucial international context of the restoration and maintaining of Yugoslavia after the Second World War when the country was divided. Immediately after the Cold War ended, Yugoslavia lost both the internal and external elements of its maintenance and because of the impossibility of a peaceful separation of the country. The successor countries of the former Yugoslavia soon found themselves in the first big ‘hot war’, i.e. a series of wars after the end of the Cold War (1991-2001). Are there any similarities between the Korean War and the wars in the territory of the former Yugoslavia and – do these similarities imply the possibility of maintaining peace and collaboration after years long divisions and conflicts?

Cold War ; Korean Peninsula ; the former Yugoslavia ; conflict ; war ; peace

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