Peterostruka tranzicija na Zapadnom Balkanu
Fivefold Transition in the Western Balkans

Author(s): Dejan Jović
Subject(s): History, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Transition; Western Balkans; post-Communism; Yugoslavia; the 1990s
Summary/Abstract: In this article author is focussed on fivefold transition in post-Yugoslav states, which has over the last 30 years simultaneously changed – with different effects, sometimes in real terms and sometimes only nominally, as a simulated transition – political systems, economic relations, statehood, identities and status of peace and war. All five aspects of the transition are still unfinished, which confirms the original interpretation of the concept of transition, as developed by the first generation of transitologists (those concerned with processes in Latin America and South Europe in the 1970s and 1980s) who understood transition as process that has certain beginning but not a certain end. Changes that were produced by this fivevold post-Yugoslav transition(s) were big, but not necessarily progressive. The author is focussed in particular on interaction between various aspects of transition. He emphasises the importance and traumatic character of the fourth transition – of identities in former Yugoslavia, since this aspect was often neglected in contemporary studies of transition.

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