Survival of Yugoslavia into 21st Century

Kosovo and Vojvodina either don't get votes on the Federal Council or they are raised to the status of constituent republic meaning that Croatia and Slovenia don't feel like Serbia is trying to control the entire council.
 
The difficulty in a "Kleinejugoslawien" would be that by removing Slovenia, Macedonia and Kosovo (the last of which could not happen peacefully), you would be increasing the proportion of Serbs:Non-Serbs, which would actually make conflict between Croats & Bosniaks v Serbs much more likely.

The real forces which broke apart Yugoslavia were predatory economic practices by the US Congress and the IMF which (in the former case anyway) had the explicit intent of regime change in Yugoslavia. There was no perceived need to tolerate the continued existence of the SFRY with the fall of the USSR.

This combined with scapegoating by desperate former-Communist apparatchiks who wanted to maintain control of their fiefdoms (they would rather be big fish in a small pond than vica-versa). This is strongly suggested by the frequent cooperation between Tudjman and Milosevic, particularly on the issue of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

To save Yugoslavia, you would merely need to remove the economic pressure, perhaps change a few peoples' career trajectories around, and voila. The assumption that Yugoslavia was doomed is a myth propagated in Western historiography which absolves the United States of responsibility. Because of general ignorance about the Balkans, this is accepted as gospel due to lack of knowledge to the contrary.

Economy of SFRY was already in trouble before USSR started to fall, if you check the early 80s Party Congress reports about trade and financial situation they well show how the whole things was going pretty bad: loans weren't imposed by anyone (in fact Yugo also rescheduled its debt several times), Belgrade took the major part of them after the oil crisis to keep up their economy like many countries in the world but the management was poor and there were black holes like SAP Kosovo where money was throw in without producing back almost nothing. Still in 1982, IIRC, SFRY took another huge loan from Germany not because US was evil but because at least the execution of the mixed economy locally designed was unable to fulfill her function, i.e. employing people and stay competitive on the world markets.
 
The difficulty in a "Kleinejugoslawien" would be that by removing Slovenia, Macedonia and Kosovo (the last of which could not happen peacefully), you would be increasing the proportion of Serbs:Non-Serbs, which would actually make conflict between Croats & Bosniaks v Serbs much more likely.

Wouldn't the Bosniaks have as much trouble with the Croats in their land as the Serbs, so long as the Serbs didn't go to Ustache levels or start a pogrom against them? Also, anyone know how the Bosniacs in the former Sanjack between Montenegro and Serbia felt on this? I am wondering if there would be enough Religious Muslims left to connect between Herzovigina and Kosovo.
 
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