'I am quite certain that Milosevic did not favour any kind of Yugoslavia that was federal or
confederal. What he was interested in was a Greater Serbia built on the ruins of Yugoslavia,' Mesic, aged 67, told the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
In doing so, he draws upon an elaborate conceptual framework of
confederal governance developed in his earlier work.
He concludes by recommending the establishment of federal or
confederal representative governments as a means of maintaining some degree of democracy.
Constitutionalizing Globalization: The Postmodern Revival of
Confederal Arrangements.
France and the UK want a
confederal Europe, with states retaining power and Europe run by the Council of Europe, made up of the Prime Ministers of the member states.
The UN, Nicosia and Athens reject Ankara's demand for a "
confederal" solution).
The North first proposed its
confederal plan in 1960 and pushed it relentlessly in the eighties, to no avail.
The reason centralized wage restraint succeeded in 1993 was that various organizational innovations introduced in previous years boosted the legitimacy of
confederal leaders.
Almost everyone mentions the clans, but Farah is at pains to challenge both the myth that the civil war was an organized conflict between two major
confederal clan families and the hold-all concept of clan loyalty as the evil common denominator and explicator of all actions.
Following an explanation of the parallels between these eras, we discuss the ramifications of our historical analogy for business, describing firms whose success or failure in the emerging global economy has depended partly on whether they approached the business environment as if it were global and uniform rather than diverse and
confederal. From this discussion, we draw three general implications for companies wishing to succeed in contemporary global commerce.
This could be one of those great historical moments--forgive the hyperbole, I write in the wake of the Northern Irish pact--to arrive at a lasting
confederal solution that has eluded Canadians for at least 30 years.