Eastern Europe s Tito Option

Serbia's most powerful and influential politician in Tito era Yugoslavia was Aleksandar Ranković, one of the big four Yugoslav leaders, alongside Tito, Edvard Kardelj, and Milovan Đilas.

Indeed, local leaders are modern day Titos, unable or unwilling to join either Europe or Russia.

The death of Marshal Josip Broz Tito brought forth an outpouring of another sort.

Stalin, Franco, Tito, Mao all were mostly alike in their means and methods.

Dobrica Ćosić, a Serbian writer and political theorist, proposed it in the 1970 s, perhaps mindful of the inevitable fragility of post Tito Yugoslavia.

He welcomed Tito s rise in Yugoslavia as an internal challenge to Moscow s hegemony that he hoped others would emulate.

President Tito was re elected in 2003, but was removed from office in March 2003 by a no confidence vote and replaced by a Council of State.

Nonetheless, Dennis Tito visited the ISS on April 28, 2001, and stayed for seven days, becoming the first fee paying space tourist.

First, the EU should work to Finlandize Ukraine, whose foreign policy, like Tito s, is now officially non aligned.

The case for partition is historical as well these districts were part of Serbia until Tito redrew Yugoslavia s internal borders in the 1950 s.

In addition, in the decade since Dennis Tito journeyed to the International Space Station, eight private citizens have paid the 20 million fee to travel to space.

The Jackson 5 Jackson began working with his sons' musical group in the early 1960s, first working with his three eldest sons, Jackie, Tito and Jermaine.

The label is often applied to leaders such as Bourguiba, Josip Broz Tito, ...All Yugoslavs had educational opportunities, jobs, food, and housing regardless of nationality.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a leader of South Africa s democratic transition, has described an alternative restorative justice that focuses on the healing of breaches, the redressing of imbalances, the restoration of broken relationships.

His last fight with Lyoto Machida marked his 24th fight in the UFC, the third largest number of fights in the UFC (Tito Ortiz is first with 27 and Matt Hughes is second with 25).

One party systems, one man charismatic dictatorships, or a mixture of the two, as in Tito s Yugoslavia, are a guarantee of sclerotic minds and inert governments.

Stalin, Franco, Tito, Mao all were mostly alike in their means and methods.

Tuto warns that, should Evo win, he might consolidate a Latin American axis of evil connecting a leftist Bolivia with Fidel Castro s Cuba and Hugo Chávez s Venezuela. Evo counters that Tuto is too linked to Bolivia s corrupt political establishment one of the most dishonest in the world according to the watchdog group Transparency International to do much for Bolivia s two thirds Indian majority.

As when Marshal Tito was dying in a divided Yugoslavia, the King s royal relations (who are also his political underlings) fear that the ruler s death will unleash chaos.

The disintegration of Assad s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships, such as Josip Broz Tito s in Yugoslavia, or Hussein s in Iraq, tends to foment inter ethnic war and national dismemberment.

One of Kennan s great insights was that the US is well served by conflict among America s adversaries. He welcomed Tito s rise in Yugoslavia as an internal challenge to Moscow s hegemony that he hoped others would emulate.

The regime is now facing its moment of truth. The disintegration of Assad s iron rule into a bloody civil war shows once again that the disorderly collapse of dictatorships, such as Josip Broz Tito s in Yugoslavia, or Hussein s in Iraq, tends to foment inter ethnic war and national dismemberment.