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Srbija i velike sile
Serbia and the great powers

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Political Sciences, Public Law
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji

Summary/Abstract: As the world goes through fundamental changes, Belgrade strives to play with its policy of "neutrality" in a space that no one covers in whole. President Aleksandar Vučić, who is in essentially the only bearer of foreign policy, he tries to move within the previously designed policy of reliance on the "four pillars" (China, Russia, USA) and the EU) and to exploit their different interests. Such balancing policy is becoming more complicated and difficult given the growing hostility between Beijing and Washington. A key component of the Belgrade approach, as Janusz Bugajski claims, is duplicitous diplomacy. Although it proclaims that it aspires to EU membership and In its relations with NATO, Serbia seeks to balance the four main powers - Russia, China, the United States and the EU. Its goal is to profit from everyone, diplomatically, economically and militarily, imitating the strategy of non-alignment of Yugoslavia after Tito's break with With Stalin in 1948, that can also mask and help the all-Serbian project if Belgrade wins support from major international actors.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 158
  • Page Range: 1-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian