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Helsinki Charter No. 135-136

January - February 2010

 

Editorial

HOW TO PREVENT DISINTEGRATION OF SOCIAL TISSUE

By Sonja Biserko

Serbia's crucial dilemma - yes or no to Europe - is once again high on the elite's agenda. Ever since President Tadic decided to submit Serbia's application for EU candidacy, Serb elites from the so-called (and more powerful) conservative bloc and those coming from a more liberal and pragmatic one have been confronted over the issue. However, the problem is much deeper than that: the nation has wasted its energy on a defeated national program, while failing to take stock on past mistakes. Such mental state can hardly bring forth new ideas...   More >>>

 

North Kosovo

VEILS REMOVED

By Miroslav Filipovic

Though Serbia strongly criticized Prishtina's and Brussels's plan for putting North Kosovo under Prishtina's control, Belgrade must have sanctioned that plan one way or another as the West must have consented to its criticism, at the top of its lungs, against the abolishment of parallel institutions. At the time of Zoran Djindjic's premiership, the state considered the Kosovo question settled in the best interest of Serbia and its people, and was taking no action vis-a-vis the issue. Moreover, the word had it that Djindjic made a secret agreement of sorts with the...   More >>>

 

AFTER THE CRISIS

By Vladimir Gligorov

Social and political effects of a crisis usually lag behind it. For, political instability make a bad situation even worse, while social situation aggravates gradually as unemployment rate grows higher and higher, sources of incomes fewer and fewer, and social expenses bigger and bigger. And yet, social and political effects differ in their nature and can differ in practice: political changes can produce countercyclical effects and social tensions procyclic. This calls for an explanation. In democracies, crises result in political changes. The purpose of these changes is to renew legitimacy of regimes, which can use...   More >>>

 

NATO AND BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA:
A TEST OF MULTILATERAL DIPLOMACY

By Edina Becirevic

NATO's rejection of Bosnia-Herzegovina's application for the MAP (Membership Action Plan) was the last in a series of disappointments for the citizens of Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2009. The Alliance's decision, along with the European Union's refusal to approve visa-free travel for Bosnians, best illustrates how international community decision-makers have misunderstood the process of disintegration in the country and misjudge the correct way to cope with them. The European Commission's decision of July 2009 to leave out Bosnia-Herzegovina...   More >>>

 

SOMEONE WRITES TO THE GENERAL

By Slobodanka Ast

General Vladimir Trifunovic's golghota - his wartime and post-war suffering that associates a Greek tragedy - was coped with by courts of law and the media: for some, he was a hero who saved 220 young recruits and 37 officers from the "Thermpolis cliff" of the Varazdin barracks; for others, he was a traitor rightfully sentenced by a military court. YPA General Zivota Panic said at the time, "You were of no use to us alive but dead." The Supreme Court of Serbia has recently overruled the sentence by which the former YPA general was punished to 7-year imprisonment fourteen years ago. The Court ordered a...   More >>>

 

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