Kosovo i Evropska unija: pitanja identiteta i demokratije
Kosovo and The European Union – Identity and Democracy Issues

Summary/Abstract: The article begins with a review of the relation between national and supranational identity patterns in modern political theory and practice. The author argues that the idea of a “world state“, contrary to the original plan and along with the idea of the universal model of liberal western democracy actually served to promote American national interest. In the previous decade the implementation of the US political project was a synthesis of neopragmatism, postmodernism and crypto-Schmittianism, and lack of a clear and consistent ideological profile is one of the main reasons for its failure and of discrediting the ideas of democracy and pluralism, which was a side-effect. On the other hand, the EU project, belonging to the first transnational union in history, notionally and practically allowed the possibility of forming a political community with different identity pattern, but lack of conceptual framework and agreement about key principles has lead to the growing impression that forming a European identity is not realistic, regardless of whether we are dealing with its legal or normative components. The context in which strategic convergence of the US and EU permanently expands and it jeopardized both the political subjectivity of the EU, the European idea of democracy and structure of international relations in general. An arbitrary attitude toward the question of national identity and international law has created a dilemma about Serbia’s choice between Kosovo and EU, by which EU indirectly indirectly sided with the constitution of an arbitrary “society of democracies“, which is a product of liberal interventionism.

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