Selby Lane, LLC, chairman and CEO David Colin Burke leverages more than two decades of investment management experience to direct operations at the Menlo Park, California-based specialty finance company. Complementing his experience, David Colin Burke holds a bachelor's degree in finance and master's degree in international relations from the University of Virginia. He wrote his master's thesis on "The Dissolution of Yugoslavia."
Initially formed following the conclusion of World War I, Yugoslavia at that point consisted of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Serbia. The former three Austro-Hungarian Empire territories united with the Serbian Kingdom. With the exception of the time it was under Nazi rule in World War II, the country remained intact until 1991. By the following year, it had dissolved into four separate nations and the union was effectively over in 2006.
Slovenia and Croatia were the first two territories to declare independence on June 25, 1991, ending the union of what was known as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992, following which the two remaining republics, Serbia and Montenegro, formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This union was renamed the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, but both republics formally declared independence in June 2006.
Several factors, including cultural and religious divisions between various ethnic groups and nationalist forces, contributed to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Other factors included the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and fading popularity of communism in Eastern Europe, all of which contributed to the erosion of Yugoslavia's political stability.
Initially formed following the conclusion of World War I, Yugoslavia at that point consisted of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, and Serbia. The former three Austro-Hungarian Empire territories united with the Serbian Kingdom. With the exception of the time it was under Nazi rule in World War II, the country remained intact until 1991. By the following year, it had dissolved into four separate nations and the union was effectively over in 2006.
Slovenia and Croatia were the first two territories to declare independence on June 25, 1991, ending the union of what was known as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence in 1992, following which the two remaining republics, Serbia and Montenegro, formed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This union was renamed the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, but both republics formally declared independence in June 2006.
Several factors, including cultural and religious divisions between various ethnic groups and nationalist forces, contributed to the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Other factors included the unification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and fading popularity of communism in Eastern Europe, all of which contributed to the erosion of Yugoslavia's political stability.
