Devolution in Central and Eastern Europe

Devolution is the giving up of power by the central or federal government to the different regions of the country. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and Ukraine in the west formed their own countries based on their different ethnicities and languages. Forces that tend to unite a state are called centripetal forces. This could be religious, linguistic, or ethnic diversity. The story of the centripetal forces at action in Europe in the 1990s is complex (Dodgsho 1999 25-30). In the east of the continent, the fracturing of the USSR and Yugoslavia are separate stories, bound closely ...