From Ethnical Isolationism to Openness: The Prevailing Model of Development
From Ethnical Isolationism to Openness: The Prevailing Model of Development

Summary/Abstract: The author uses three research relations to test what citizens of Serbia think about their own security in the international environment; about their own cultural tradition as opposed to the cultural tradition of other nations; about the disruption of national identity under the influence of ideas (behaviours) from the outside, and about dangers lying behind the integration process – with the goal to determine whether the current isolationism is an insurmountable obstacle. The first research relation identifies indicators of national/ethnic enclosure and defines the dominant type of isolationism; the second one points to factors hindering the ethnic/national identity and stresses the dominant type of xenophobia; the third relation embodies dominant thinking patterns and a conception of a model of development between the cultural-ethnic principle of a closed state and the new civic concept. Our results show that current isolationism and xenophobia are gradually lessening in intensity and becoming more moderate.

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