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EDITORIAL: THE YEAR OF HARD
DECISIONS
By Sonja Biserko
It took the Vojislav Kostunica cabinet two years to realize that Serbia
has no choice but to pursue the reforms launched by the Zoran Djindjic cabinet. After all,
Vojislav Kostunica had to start cooperating with The Hague, at least by his own recipe for
“voluntary surrender.” Though the moral component of all surrenders has been
missing so far, sooner or later it will be on the agenda. Hesitation to arrest Ratko
Mladic and Radovan Karadzic mirror both... |
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THE YEAR OF HARD DECISIONS:
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
By Miroslav Filipovic
If the actual state of affairs in Kosovo is “less then a
minimum” for the Albanian side, and “more than a maximum” for the Serbian,
a compromise is hard to imagine. Therefore, I neither trust the sincerity nor competence
of the people talking of a compromise. I take they are veiling their true intentions,
since the negotiations would be conducted in the atmosphere of strong pressure, dirty
blackmails and even threats... |
THE YEAR OF HARD DECISIONS:
REASONING OF A “KOSMETPOLITAN”
By Teofil Pancic
When it is that an intellectual begins to “pulverize,” die
down and publicly disintegrate? That’s a good question, though, as it seems, this
Story of Disintegration in the Public Eye is more about the end than a beginning of
something: his public auto-de(con)struction is nothing but the last, pitiful act of a
process that has been actually ended silently somewhere else. What the public eventually
sees, what stages a ritual... |
THE YEAR OF HARD DECISIONS:
THE QUESTION GIVES THE ANSWER
By Igor Peric
When on December 8, the working version of the paper analyzing the
compliance of the Montenegrin Referendum Law with international standards was leaked, it
became quite clear that the final document of the Venice Commission will make room for the
mediation of Brussels in the recommended internal dialogue about the required majority for
the validity of the plebiscite in Montenegro... |
FACING THE PAST: HYPNOTIZED STATE
By Bojan Al Pinto Brkic
Theologians are keeping something from us. There is an irrational trait
to state power that could hardly fit into the teaching that all power is from God
(agnostics would say that all power is irrational). And to prove it, you don't even have
to leave your armchair. In mid-December all media carried the news that following the
report of the ICTY chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte... |
REGIONAL PROJECTS: HISTORIANS ARE NOT JUDGES
By Dubravka Stojanovic
Can history be disarmed? Is it possible to set up new standards, new
principles of teaching the past in the Balkans where history classes are experienced as
preconscription training? Is it possible for history to change its place and, instead of a
cause of conflicts, become a means for the Balkan people to gain greater knowledge of each
others, along with... |
