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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I'm not sure aout all the examples you listed, but the cases of the former Yugoslav Republiks were different from Kosovo. Kosovo is a province of Serbia... it has no history of ever being an independent country. Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, etc... were are "republiks" within a federation. They were not provinces or states. As far as international law is concerned, it is much different. Yugoslavia was like the Soviet Union, but on a smaller scale. Serbia was to Russia, what Croatia was to Ukraine. Kosovo would be like Novgorod or Rostov oblasts.
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All I'm saying is that the creation of new states isn't a crazy or novel concept, it happens all the time. Serbia itself was a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire not so long ago. Every case is usually a little different... East Timor and Eritrea are similar to Kosovo, but not quite. I don't think this will set off a string of countries declaring independence though.
To declare independence a (new) country needs essentially one thing; the recognition of it's status as independent by other countries. Just because the US/Western Europe recognized Kosovo doesn't necessarily mean they'll recognize Chechnya, Dagestan, South Ossetia, I think they've even been making comments to that effect in relation to this event.