Nations, Conglomerates, and Empires: The Tradeoff between Income and Sovereignty
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Nations, Conglomerates, Why after the breakup of such multinational states as and Empires the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia -whose The Tradeoff between Income republicsjustified their and Sovereignty decision by claiming that they wanted to regain their Branko Milanovic sovereignty did the new states express strong desire to join the European Union, thus dissipating the very sovereignty they had sought?
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