Eastern Europe and the Balkans witnessed an unprecedented change in the nature and scale of international armed conflicts, in the unprecedented collapse of its established blocs and multi-ethnic empires in a manner that reflected in and influenced by the continued change and advances in technological and scientific innovations. ... As Loescher (1996) noted, admission of people as citizens in these new nation-states were based on the policy of cultural, language, ethnic and religious affiliation especially in the former Russian and Austrian-Hungarian empires. ...

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