Kosova update

It probably goes without saying that Kosova's secession from Serbia has caused great excitement within the secessionist blogosphere; as we try to determine what effect this event will have on the future. Following are some stories that may be of interest.

• The Associated Press reports that the Serbian government under nationalist Vojuslav Kostunica is dissolving, finding itself unable to work with liberal President Boris Tadic. There is some disagreement over whether the real issue is Kosova or Serbia's application to eventually join the European Union. Prime Minister Konstunica has tied the two issues together, while President Tadic argues that they should be dealt with separately. Failure to find common ground was the reason the government collapsed.
• The Palmetto Patriot in the Republic of South Carolina blog tries to explain Kosova in terms Americans can understand by putting the shoe on our foot with a parable about Tejanos (Hispanic Texans) declaring independence from the United States with the support of China.
• The Second Vermont Republic figures in another Associated Press story asking, if Kosova, why not Vermont? One of the interviewees is Thomas Naylor, of that organization, for what that is worth.

I have also observed considerable confusion between the breakup of nations, as the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia experienced (and the United States may soon experience) with balkanization, which has a specific reference to the breakup of nations into warring states. (See "Kosovo succeeds and secedes!" below; and especially, the comments to that post).