There is a stunning idea of a multi-ethnic state at the inception of the 20th century. The right of Yugoslavia's existence seems to be trappy from it's very beginning, since the ethnical groups fail to succeed to accord their particular interests. The end of Yugoslavia's existence starts with the proclamation of independence of Slovenia and Croatia. The output is an embittered war, which kills tens of thousands of people and forces millions to leave their homes making them refugees. The

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... were quickly found. Hence, these are the ex-presidents of the ex-Yugoslav republics, who are responsible for the Yugoslav drama. Furthermore, there are other endogenous factors, such as religion, culture, ethnicity and the subsequent nationalism, to be pulled up to explain the end of this multi-ethnical s state. Could there possibly be another version of the collapse of the Yugoslav state? Is the failed state of Yugoslavia really a single output of a weak state? Or, could it be that the collapse perhaps happened due to the annexation of the Yugoslav state as the periphery of the "modern world system"? The exerted interdisciplinary basic research should give proper answers for these two main subjects. This reasearch should reflect on possible backgrounds and sources of the peripherisation of the multi-ethnic state, which are assumed to be found in the dependence from the capitalistic centres of power. Therefore, the "modern world system theory" of Immanuel Wallerstein and the conception of the "failed state" should be used as the main explanation approach for the collapse of the state of Yugoslavia. A weak state is the main trait of a periphery and Yugoslavia is a weak collapsing state. After just one decade of economic growth is the sobering what follows with the end of the consensual fordism: The decrease of the terms of trade, falling produktivity, missing innovation as well as the breakdown of the export markets. With the economical crisis came the struggle for economic resources as well as the question about the pros [...]