Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- proper noun
- During its existence from 1992 to 2003, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia comprised two republics: Serbia and Montenegro.
- democratization of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Examples
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The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia's democratization and constitution-making processes were spared until recently from the direct intervention of the international community.
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The process of democratization of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia has been slow ever since the new Yugoslavia was proclaimed.
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The shock effect this had on the U.S. public led to support for the U.S.-led bombing campaign on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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This perhaps explains why they felt compelled to arrogate the authority to attack the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to themselves.
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Albanians are demanding independence and secession from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and they want the international community to intervene directly in their favor.
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The initial processes of substantial democratization in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were based primarily on the free expression of political preference among the political parties, rather than on ethnic groups.
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For the most part, Western media did not deal much with issues of international law in their coverage of Kosovo or NATO's eleven-week war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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In Kosovo in 1999, the United States and NATO furthered this shift in policy by not consulting the UN Secretary General or the Security Council before bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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Although Russia and China had supported NATO action against the Bosnian Serb regime based in Pale in 1995, they opposed the 1999 NATO attacks on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the UN Security Council.
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I argue in this article that the democratization of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia does not depend exclusively on the form of their formal institutions but also on the state of mind of the people and their level of participation in political activities.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
A former country in southeastern Europe that split into several independent nations
Surface Forms
Morphology
federal + republic + of + Yugoslavia
The phrase is fully compositional: a "federal republic" (a republic with a federal system) named "Yugoslavia." A B1 learner who knows the constituent words (including the country name) can readily infer it denotes the state entity organized as a federal republic, so the meaning is transparent and follows common cross‑linguistic naming patterns.
Etymology
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is a name that shows a country made of parts: federal means several regions joined, republic means leaders chosen by the people, and Yugoslavia comes from words meaning 'south' and 'Slavs'. That's why this name was used for the union of Serbia and Montenegro from 1992 to 2003.