SERBIAN CRISIS: HOW TO REFLECT ABOUT IT? Cover Image

КАКО ПРОМИШЉАТИ СРПСКУ КРИЗУ?
SERBIAN CRISIS: HOW TO REFLECT ABOUT IT?

Author(s): Časlav D. Koprivica
Subject(s): Political history, Social history, Evaluation research, Nationalism Studies, Politics and Identity
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: Serbs; Serbia; crisis; identity; civilization; tradition; vitality;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, which is just an initial paper within a few-year-long research, we are trying to identify causes of the crisis which the Serbian state and the Serb people experience - not just in the last few years or decades, but, as we believe, already for centuries. The main problem is Serbs’ long-lasting incapability to consolidate both: the national identity and a national state, which is caused by permanent instability of Serbian history, absence of an active attitude toward their own tradition and a lack of notion of self-virtue which dominate the Serbian national “character”. There are two main difficulties of the present- day Serbian crisis: the fact that our people and their state are not well-fitted to the contemporary world and its civilization, which is, as a matter fact, quite a permanent issue in modern history of the Serbs, as well as the loss of vitality, which in the past at least substituted the poor success in “socialization” in the world ruled by major nations.

  • Issue Year: 42/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 129-146
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian