Zatečena Srbija
Enforcement of Statehood

Summary/Abstract: Chaotic and rather mixed-up as it is, the Serbian society is a product of the actual government’s unwillingness and inability to take stock of the past and thus establish a link with reality – the reality that makes a part of contemporary global trends Serbia distinguishes not. With Montenegro’s independence and the solution of the Kosovo issue at hand, Serbia will get its borders at long last. However, she still has to come to grips with key problems if she wants to become a modern state. By sticking to the same pattern – and thus disclosing its frustration more than anything else nowadays – the government fuels Serbian radicalism that will mushroom as long as Serbia remains an undefined state. Premier Kostunica’s communication with the world more and more sounds like Slobodan Milosevic’s discourse. So he messaged the European Union with rather bitter hostility that “the policy of permanent conditioning was utterly wrong” for its outcomes had been nothing but negative up to now. As it seems, Vojislav Kostunica has not realized that the EU is a club with clear standards and tenets, and that any new membership implies that a state has endorsed its value system...

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