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it is unlikely that those provinces chaffing for their own independence will seek to do so in the midst of such potential chaos. Kosovo's democracy is a newborn infant that faces many obstacles on its road to growth and maturity. She is a small nation that is still occupied by the peace-keeping forces of the UN and will likely remain so for some time. Her country currently has a fifty percent unemployment rate. As such, time may reveal that she, like East Timor, her Asian neighbor who gained independence from Indonesia in 2002, will struggle to maintain a democracy in the face of such impoverished demographics. In spite of her newly found independence, Kosovo may not currently be an attractive icon to mirror the birth of freedom to those who would consider emulating her.

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