Well, one has Switzerland to look at and no doubt Tito also likely looked at it as a successful example of what Michael was questioning. The issue is why it fell apart in Yugoslavia. Like the rise of religion in the ex-USSR inter-national rivalries were not so much "done away with" under Tito as it was suppressed. In fact that was true in the USSR as well. But there was also the conscious sabotage of what had been a pan-Yugoslavian working class that did exist and demonstrated its cohesion as Tito starting shifting the economy in order to fiscalize it in preparation for the Eurozone. A massive general strike in every region of Yugoslavia occurred. I suspect the nascent wannabe dictators, the appointed heads of the various ethnic division of the League of Communists simply got together and couldn't agree on who got what. In fact such a meeting did happen shortly after Tito's death. The result was the stirring up of old ethnic rivalries and the destruction of the Yugoslavian working class as a result of it. It is not about whether "they can all get along" but what prevents them from doing so.
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