ON THE MARGINS OF AHTISAARI'S PLAN: DANGEROUS LOGIC AND - THE
ALTERNATIVE
By Denisa Kostovic
Kosovo seems to have moved to New York. All parties interested in this
hotbed of crisis in the Balkans have turned their eyes to the UN Security Council to which
the former Finnish president and representative for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari had recently
submitted a plan for the resolution of the status of Kosovo. Reactions to the suggested
"supervised sovereignty" were quite expected. In Belgrade, Premier Vojislav
Kostunica said, "Failure... More >>> |
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THE RUSSIAN CARD
By Vojislava Vignjevic
Serbia's political life now paralyzed by the same matrix of
nationalistic ideology developed and applied for 15 years testifies of a thorough
restoration of Milosevic's regime by the incumbent authorities. Now, in late April, we
still do not have a new government, a parliamentary speaker or the Constitutional Court.
But we do have the budget illegaly imposed by the outgoing (technical) Kostunica's cabinet
and a one-year suspension of SAA negotiations with the European Union. And we do
have... More >>> |
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A STRATEGY FOR THE KOSOVO SERBS
By Nenad Ilic
There is no doubt that the Kosovo mythic rhetoric is a Piedmont of the
Serbian national organicism. In the 20th century Serbia all political elites have used it,
particularly since 1913. And it was at peak in the period 1965-99. Downfall of Rankovic
and, later on, enthronement of the national elite and Slobodan Milosevic authoritarianism
were the period's landmarks. The nationally-oriented elites were orchestrally glorifying
the Kosovo myth and its heroes and thus creating... More >>> |
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HISTORY FROZEN IN A SINGLE DAY
By Nikola Samardzic
In the vacuum of dual authority, the nomeklatura either symbolically or
factually reruns March 17 /2003/ in almost daily incidents and thus gradually radicalizes
the public discourse and chokes media freedoms. Its threatening messages to reformist
opposition are no longer disguised. Now after the elections that have not brought about a
new cabinet yet, the nomeklatura turns schizophrenic - it is torn between a superfluous
feeling of superiority and the... More >>> |
