Political myth of nationalism and antinationalism: A challenge and a contemporary threat to security ; Politički mit nacionalizma i antinacionalizama - izazov i savremena pretnja bezbednosti

Abstract

The issues of nationalism, ethnic affiliation and political myths related to them continue to represent an inexhaustible sociological, political science and security issue in the 21st century in the same way as in the previous century. In their complex nature these issues appear as topics of many debates and interpretations, but these debates are often ideological in their contents. This is also confirmed by the interpretations of the events at the end of 20th century when the Balkan part of Europe became an area of the collapse of law and order, the creation of new states and alliances, national and religious extremism, ethnic conflicts and ethnic cleansing, as well as the incapability of the UN to solve the bloody local conflicts. This paper attempts to show the roots of nationalism and national conflicts in the Western Balkan political area in the course of the last decade of the last century. At the same time the field of analysis is directed towards the functional dimension of political myths and stereotypes in the subsequent political consolidation of newly created national identities explained at the examples of nationalism and antinationalism within the context of origination of synthetic nations at the territory of the former Yugoslavia. ; Pitanja nacionalizma, etničke pripadnosti i političkih mitova u vezi s njima, u XXI, kao i u prethodnom veku, predstavljaju neiscrpnu sociološko-politikološku i bezbednosnu temu. Zbog svoje kompleksne prirode, ta pitanja se javljaju kao predmet brojnih rasprava i tumačenja, no, te rasprave često imaju ideološki sadržaj. To potvrđuju i tumačenja događaja pred kraj prošlog veka, kada je balkanski deo Evrope postao prostor sloma zakona i poretka, nastanka novih država i saveza, nacionalnog i verskog ekstremizma, etničkih sukoba i 'etničkog čišćenja', kao i nesposobnosti UN da reše krvave lokalne konflikte. U radu se nastoji ukazati na korene nacionalizma i nacionalnih konflikata u zapadnobalkanskom političkom prostoru tokom poslednje decenije minulog veka. Istovremeno, polje analize se usmerava ka funkcionalnoj dimenziji političkih mitova i stereotipa u naknadnoj političkoj konsolidaciji novo-nastalih nacionalnih identiteta ekspliciranih na primerima nacionalizma i antinacionalizma u kontekstu nastajanja sintetičkih nacija na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije.