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EDITORIAL: ENFORCEMENT OF
STATEHOOD
By Sonja Biserko
Chaotic and rather mixed-up as it is, the Serbian society is a product
of the actual government’s unwillingness and inability to take stock of the past and
thus establish a link with reality – the reality that makes a part of contemporary
global trends Serbia distinguishes not. With Montenegro’s independence and the
solution... |
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EUROPE CAN WAIT
By Bojan Al Pinto Brkic
Serbia is one of 18 European countries that are neither in the
EU’s nor have the status of candidates for full-fledged membership. Unlike Norway,
Switzerland and Russia, Serbia has not opted for privileged partnership with the EU
Ukraine aspires to. Albania has just signed the stabilization and association agreement... |
MONTENEGRO POST-REFERENDUM: FARAWAY CONSENSUS
By Igor Peric
At the time of the ‘celebration’ staged on St. Vitus’
Day in the year of 1989 to mark the 600th anniversary of Prince Lazar’s passing from
earthly to heavenly kingdom, when a certain Montenegrin (by origin), playing with history
and politics, opened Pandora’s box of the Balkans, hardly anyone among the rallied
would wager that Montenegro, largely... |
DIVORCE EPILOGUE: INTEGRATION PROSPECTS AND ONGOING DISINTEGRATION
By Nikola Samardzic
If the nature of the state union of Serbia and Montenegro recalled the
authoritarian epoch, will its disappearance mark the end of its specific politics? Or,
will Serbia become a scene of orgies resembling those that, inspired by the Memorandum,
shook most of the second Yugoslavia... |
SERBIAN ARMY’S "NEW BEGINNING": "GLORY" AND
THE FLIP SIDE OF WAR TRADITION
By Stipe Sikavica
Even when the results of the referendum in Montenegro became official
the orthodox Serbian nationalists found it hard to accept the truth that the "small
Montenegrin boat" dared to leave the convoy of "Serbian lands". The
question about the survival of this boat in the stormy ocean of cruel international... |
BELGRADE’S NATIONALISTIC FRUSTRATION: FRUSTRATION OF THE DEFEATED
By Ivan Torov
For Serbia’s nationalistic elite the outcome of Montenegro’s
referendum independence was the hardest blow ever. The time – the months to come,
rather than years – will show that even Kosovo’s “parting” from Serbia
will not be so traumatic and dramatic experience as “the betrayal of Serbian
brothers,” “the blossom of the Serbian nation.”... |
