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The example of Pakistan/Bangladesh and India establishes a bad precedent. Nor is South Sudan doing terribly well. Though the Europeans inflicted a great deal o
by ucarion 8y ago
The example of Pakistan/Bangladesh and India establishes a bad precedent. Nor is South Sudan doing terribly well.
Though the Europeans inflicted a great deal of damage upon Africa, to submit the continent to a second round of revision would be adding insult to injury. At least until the international community finds a way of redrawing borders in a reliably peaceful way, and ensuring that the resulting nations thrive.
- jonathankoren 8y agoCzechoslovakia seems like a good model.
- ucarion 8y agoSure -- though Bohemia had preceded modern Czechia for centuries, and was still a quasi-state in its own right under the Habsburgs. Such historical unity is rare in modern Africa.
- oblio 8y agoYugoslavia looks like a bad one :)
- anoncoward111 8y agoThat's because Yugoslavia was torn apart by two larger imperial powers (the West and Russia). Czechs and Slovaks, for better or worse, were much more heavily under the sphere of influence of only the West