Војна неутралност Србије - дилема за Европску унију?
Military neutrality of Serbia - a dilemma for the European Union?

Summary/Abstract: With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Serbia found itself in the “line of fire” of two global geopolitical concepts. The geopolitical proximity of the Russian Federation (RF) and China in the zone of the strong influence of the geopolitical power of the United States of America (USA) and Euro-Atlantic integration projects — NATO and the European Union — has put Serbia in front of numerous political, military, and security challenges. At the turn of two millennia, the most important political challenge for the Republic of Serbia is the issue of the status of Kosovo and Metohija, whose solution practically blocks its integration ambitions, placing it on the side of the post-Soviet states with “shredded sovereignty” and threatened territorial integrity. This does not contribute to Serbia’s optimal positioning in the modern European order but exposes it to permanent crises that do not contribute to its political stability nor the stability of the region. This national, political, and security challenge is highly positioned on the foreign policy agenda of the great powers and becomes another point around which their geopolitical power is distributed. The gap between two national political interests (membership in the EU and preservation of territorial integrity) forces Serbia to position itself between the US and the Russian Federation, which essentially means accepting the concept of military neutrality. Whether the EU accepts this determination of Serbia or whether this determination represents a real political dilemma for the EU remains to be seen, depending on the trends and constellation of global international relations in the coming period.

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