Europe:

After 2000 years of war, a reluctant, uneasy but necessary peace, at least between UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. With the Iron Curtain gone, Eastern Europe is in flux with many new countries. Will Polish plumbers destabilize western economies?
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 Yugoslavia was a lot like Iraq -- a convenient collection of eclectic provinces filled with different ethnic and religious groups who were held in check by a strongman, Tito, who played both Superpowers against eachother for his gain. When he finally died, the entire region exploded with wars that had in some cases been postponed 800 years earlier. What was Yugoslavia is now Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Serbia/Montenegro, and the FYROMacedonia.

Note that superpowers have a difficult time smashing countries together and making them stick. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, (in the east) all became separate countries.

The Czech Republic separated from Slovakia.