Ko je zaslužan za uspeh srpske tranzicije
Who is meritorious for the success of the Serbian transition

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is the Serbian transition. In order to explain the process of transition, the author relies on the theory of actors and proves it useless to draw on the structural, socio-economic, cultural and geopolitical approaches and theories. The theory of actors sits confortably with the article's major thesis that the transition in Serbia was an authoritarian one. The article's major thesis is that the transition in Serbia did take place in 1987-1989. The old communist system was removed and a new one came in its stead. The peculiarity of this transition was that it had been executed by the hard-liners led by Slobodan Milosevic. This is why the Serbian transition could not be regarded as a democratic, but rather as an authoritarian one. This thesis is supported by two following facts that are analyzed in the article. The transition is completed in the name of an nondemocratic idea put forward by the Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Science. Secondly, the transition itself was a consequence of a conflict that was resolved by a nondemocratic means.

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