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Editorial
DISSOLUTION OF THE
BALKANS
By Sonja Biserko
More than twenty years since Yugoslavia’s breakup the
states emerging from it have not yet consolidated into sustainable
communities capable of managing their still multiethnic populations.
Getting transformed into nation states they have not yet found modes
that would guarantee stability and coexistence. Their search for
national identities resulted in the conflict that has been changing its
form but practically never came to an end. The fall of the Ottoman and
Austro-
Hungarian empires triggered off the process of nation-state building in
the Balkans. The...
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On the Eve of Local
Elections in Kosovo
KOSOVO VISA TO EU
By Ivan Torov
As it seemed in the first
half of August,
Belgrade authorities were going to seize a “perfect opportunity” offered
by Prishtina and postpone the November local elections in Kosovo
till,
say, next spring when the ruling SNS-SPS coalition, by its own
calculation, would cope
with the /un/expected outcome of the Brussels
Agreement without risking too much its image and ratings. Prishtina’s
announcement that the ballots for the November 3 vote would bear some
emblems of “the state of Kosovo” raised at least a short-live hue and
cry
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Politics and Economy
TWO SERBIAS
By Vladimir Gligorov
Characteristic of Serbia for a longer period, and
certainly since the
beginning of Yugoslavia’s breakup were two different
policies: one, generally speaking, was democratic though not necessarily
secular and the other nationalistic. The basic difference between the
two was in their goals – one
was after a nation state while the other
used democratic means to attain its goals. Serbia still pursues two
different policies but the balance of power between them changed:
democratic strategy now prevails. Stable democratization, however,
depends on future relations...
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The Rule of the Fan Clubs-
Political Mafia
THE MAJORITY
TERRORIZES COMMON
SENSE
By Bojan Tončić
It’s hard to believe that highest officials’
infantile devotion to their favorite clubs in the only reason
why these ball-playing firms are so privileged over here. Even if
the hookup between high governmental officials and the masked crime
of football clubs cannot be proved beyond doubt, everyone is witness
to their brutal assaults at the state budget, their murky plans for
freeing robbers from tax paying, the Premier and the Vice-Premier
doing what they shouldn’t be doing and what they are not paid for.
Everyone sees them
boasting...
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