Who Are We? Development Of The Discourse On Nato In Serbian Parliaments As A Manifestation Of A Battle Between Opposing Strategic Cultures
Who Are We? Development Of The Discourse On Nato In Serbian Parliaments As A Manifestation Of A Battle Between Opposing Strategic Cultures

Summary/Abstract: This paper will discuss a discourse on NATO that developed in Serbian Parliaments in the period 2000 - 2008. The main argu- ment of this paper is that the opposing discourses about NATO are a manifestation of the differing strategic cultures existing in Serbia. Discourses as analytical units were constructed based on the empirical material – stenographic recordings of parliamentary sessions and statements of the political elite as transmitted by media. The first discourse promoted cooperation with NATO; it prevailed before end of 2007 and was a part of civil-democratic strategic culture underpinned with the values and norms of European political heritage. The second discourse is a part of the strategic culture of national-liberation advocating the independ- ence, reliance on own resources and civilisational ambivalence. The actors of this discourse oppose the establishment of cooper- ation with NATO and this discourse became mainstream in the end of 2007 when the Resolution to declare military independ- ence was adopted in the National Assembly.

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