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In an attempt to define the international position of Serbia, this paper deals with the hypothesi... more In an attempt to define the international position of Serbia, this paper deals with the hypothesis that Serbia's specific mode of neutrality, mixed with a semi-vassal status in relation to the West, is similar to the position of Casablanca shown in the film of the same name from 1942. It is, therefore, about a state that is neutral, which all the actors tacitly admit while reproaching it for sitting on more than one chair and saying that it has to decide which one to sit on. Over time, all the world and regional actors have crowded into "Casablanca", but until recently, the real power was exclusively in the hands of the Americans. It is characteristic of this system that it is unstable and that it can slip into a vassal system and make Serbia an object of politics, but it is also possible that neutrality is becoming real by ending the vassal relationship due to the diminishing power of the United States and the West as a whole. Thanks to many factors, one of which is the mood of the Serbian people, the impression is that the year 2022 has turned in the direction of enabling independent Serbian foreign policy.
Универзитет у Београду, Sep 24, 2016
MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2020
The Balkans in general and post-Yugoslav countries in particular have been under significant geop... more The Balkans in general and post-Yugoslav countries in particular have been under significant geopolitical pressure of the political West since the end of the bipolar global order. From the beginning of the Yugoslav Civil War in 1991, followed by Western recognition of secessionist republics in 1992 and NATO attacks on Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994-1995 and on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, the US, NATO and EU have been actively involved in the Balkan crisis. It was in concordance with the logic of unipolarity, or the New World Order, proclaimed by George W.H. Bush, in which there is “no substitute for American leadership”.The year of 2008 marked the start of profound changes. The changes we are witnessing today are of the magnitude described by Paul Kennedy’s classic The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia crossed Russia’s red lines and exposed the latter’s ambitions to regain the superpower status; China symbolically showed the sa...
In an attempt to define the international position of Serbia, this paper deals with the hypothesi... more In an attempt to define the international position of Serbia, this paper deals with the hypothesis that Serbia's specific mode of neutrality, mixed with a semi-vassal status in relation to the West, is similar to the position of Casablanca shown in the film of the same name from 1942. It is, therefore, about a state that is neutral, which all the actors tacitly admit while reproaching it for sitting on more than one chair and saying that it has to decide which one to sit on. Over time, all the world and regional actors have crowded into "Casablanca", but until recently, the real power was exclusively in the hands of the Americans. It is characteristic of this system that it is unstable and that it can slip into a vassal system and make Serbia an object of politics, but it is also possible that neutrality is becoming real by ending the vassal relationship due to the diminishing power of the United States and the West as a whole. Thanks to many factors, one of which is the mood of the Serbian people, the impression is that the year 2022 has turned in the direction of enabling independent Serbian foreign policy.
Универзитет у Београду, Sep 24, 2016
MGIMO Review of International Relations, 2020
The Balkans in general and post-Yugoslav countries in particular have been under significant geop... more The Balkans in general and post-Yugoslav countries in particular have been under significant geopolitical pressure of the political West since the end of the bipolar global order. From the beginning of the Yugoslav Civil War in 1991, followed by Western recognition of secessionist republics in 1992 and NATO attacks on Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1994-1995 and on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, the US, NATO and EU have been actively involved in the Balkan crisis. It was in concordance with the logic of unipolarity, or the New World Order, proclaimed by George W.H. Bush, in which there is “no substitute for American leadership”.The year of 2008 marked the start of profound changes. The changes we are witnessing today are of the magnitude described by Paul Kennedy’s classic The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. Georgia’s attack on South Ossetia crossed Russia’s red lines and exposed the latter’s ambitions to regain the superpower status; China symbolically showed the sa...