Pregovori o statusu Kosova – pogled iz srpskog ugla: između pravednog i realnog
Kosovo Status Negotiations – A Serbian Point of View

Summary/Abstract: Results of empirical research point to the fact that among Serbian citizens there is a dominant modal attitude, shared by more than half of the subjects, that the fairest outcome of Kosovo negotiations should be an (extended) autonomy within Serbia. On the other hand, many subjects think that the negotiations will end in Kosovo’s independence. We have ascertained that the axiological moment is of crucial importance for taking an attitude toward the fair outcome and that rational moments are not sufficiently taken into account. The fact that the majority of subjects would strongly oppose to possibility that Serbia’s accelerated accession to the EU might depend on granting autonomy to Kosovo-Metohija (by Serbia). The text analyzes the impact of partisan, political and ideological determinism on attitudes toward the Kosovo crisis and our conclusion is that there are two groups of voters and supporters of leading parliamentary parties which can be described as hardliners (DSS, SRS and SPS) and softliners (LDP, G 17+ and DS) when it comes to attitudes toward the outcome of the Kosovo status negotiations; LDP voters can be described as ultra-softliners. At the end of the paper there is a section about sociological and historical contexts of the Kosovo crisis and how it could be solved, and the most realistic and historically productive way would be to form a long-term protectorate of the United Nations.

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