IS A COLORED REVOLUTION UNDERWAY IN SERBIA IN 2025? Cover Image

ДА ЛИ ЈЕ У СРБИЈИ 2025. НА ДЕЛУ ОБОЈЕНА РЕВОЛУЦИЈА?
IS A COLORED REVOLUTION UNDERWAY IN SERBIA IN 2025?

Author(s): Slobodan Č. Antonić
Subject(s): Government/Political systems, Electoral systems, Political behavior, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: mass protests; social upheavals; electoral democracy; media manipulation; mass agitation

Summary/Abstract: We cannot yet give a definitive answer to the question of whether we are dealing with a colored revolution in Serbia today or not, since we are currently unable to have more reliable information about the actions of a foreign factor and the strength of its influence on the student-civic movement. However, the paper lists at least seven other characteristics of colored revolutions that we also recognize in the current protests in Serbia. This is still not enough for an indisputable classification, but it is enough to establish a hypothesis about the character of these protests. Of course, this social process, like others, is not historically closed – which is why social phenomena can surprise us with their unexpected movement or even a different character compared to the classification we have established. But the excitement and beauty of social sciences lies in these very unexpectedness and hiddenness, as true challenges to our theories and research tools. The issue of a colored revolution in Serbia in 2024/2025 represents just such an open challenge.

  • Issue Year: 2025
  • Issue No: 196
  • Page Range: 535-577
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Serbian
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