POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BALKANS: THE CASE OF SERBIA
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE BALKANS: THE CASE OF SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: during 2000-2016, analyzing the way in which these impacted theSerbian foreign policy. The article argues that the pro-european versusnationalists cleavage, which was specific to the 1990s and 2000s decreased inrelevance after the reforms undertaken during the presidential terms of BorisTadic and the adoption of a pragmatic and deliberately ambiguous by allSerbian political forces. The article identifies three crucial periods in Serbiandomestic politics: 2000-2004: - the period of instability after the fallof Slobodan Milosevic, 2004-2012: the presidential terms of Boris Tadic, 2012-2016: ex-nationalists come back to power - The presidential term of TomislavNikolic. The article concludes that the political positioning of the main Serbianparties tend to converge, while Serbia is pursuing two major foreign policyobjectives which seem to be mutually exclusive: keeping Kosovo as part of Serbiaand joining the European Union

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