Srpski nacionalizam kao regionalni izazov: posledice i perspektive / Serbian Nationalism as a Regional Challenge: Consequences and Perspectives

Abstract

The paper presents a view of the historical challenges that the Serbian nationalist approach to politics has brought to the region of the Western Balkans, and especially to its immediate neighbors. In the wake of more than a century of historical experience, today it is possible to valorize „effects” of such an ideological concept, but also to anticipate its future directions and consequences. In the new, changed regional and geopolitical circumstances, given the tragic experiences, it is necessary to continue to closely monitor the efforts, aspirations and energy of Serbian nationalism coming from the „old address”. There are still today tangible and obvious political, economic, diplomatic and even open irredentist acts of Serbia directed towards the „old addresses” of its neighbors, and they represent an individual challenge for each of the targeted addresses: Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, Montenegro, the Republic of Kosovo and North Macedonia. But in a broader perspective, Greater Serbian nationalism represents a threat and a challenge to the entire region of the Western Balkans because Serbia has not suspended or permanently and irreversibly given up the historical project „Greater Serbia”, except renaming it „Serbian World”.