Democracy in Postcommunism -- A Political Instrument or the Substance of Politics? -- The Case of Serbia

In: Praxis international: a philosophical journal, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 405-415

Abstract

Examines one cause of the war in the former Yugoslavia -- the political articulation of the Serbian state issue over the last five years -- focusing on Serbian ethnicity & the political vacuum created by the demise of the communist state. Interethnic relations in communist & postcommunist Serbia & the Serbian regime's turn toward authoritarianism in 1988 are explored, & it is contended that the changes in Serbia's political system that took place in 1990 were the result of pressure brought on by political developments in other Yugoslav republics & other socialist countries in Europe. W. Howard