Editorial
THE CIRCLE IS CLOSED
By Sonja Biserko
The victory of the Serb Progressive Party and its leader, Tomislav
Nikolic, in May 2012 elections laid bare Serbia's grim reality: Serb nationalism is a
constant. The international community's political engineering had reached the point after
which it was ineffective. Once again it became clear that the changes in 2000 had been
cosmetic and touched not the foundation of Milosevic's legacy. All attempts at changing
this legacy were brutally curbed (assassination of Zoran Djindjic, consequent ruination of
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Post-Election Serbia
ONE BACK STEP,
THEN ANOTHER...
By Vladimir Gligorov
By declaring themselves pro-Europeans, opposition parties made a
crucial U-turn in their strategy. Their strategic calculus was quite a simple one -
neither more nor less can we be EU-oriented than you, Democrats. Besides, it costs us
nothing. The same applies to all other strategies. As they are usually declarative, there
is no reason whatsoever why not to take them over from you. Why not copy your slogans such
as those about regional cooperation, fight against corruption and organized crime, social
justice and, of... More
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Political Culture in Serbia
NATIONALISM AS
DESTINY
By Latinka Perovic
A way to thank you all for being here tonight is
to tell you the truth: in a way I have myself initiated this
lecture. When people from Vojvodina Turnabout asked me to
participate in some of the events of their election campaign I
promptly suggested a lecture on political culture in Serbia. One of
the reasons why I suggested the topic is my deep belief that we all
cannot serve public interest in the same manner. Our experiences are
different but so are our perception of the past and the present. And
there is yet another...
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