NSPM in English Нова српска политичка мисао - часопис за политичку теорију и друштвена истраживања http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:01:58 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management sr-rs Playing With Fire in Ukraine http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/playing-with-fire-in-ukraine.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/playing-with-fire-in-ukraine.html The Underappreciated Risks of Catastrophic Escalation

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web@nspm.rs (John J. Mearsheimer) NSPM in English Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:44:08 +0000
Kosovo as a res extra commercium and the alchemy of colonization http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/kosovo-as-a-res-extra-commercium-and-the-alchemy-of-colonization.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/kosovo-as-a-res-extra-commercium-and-the-alchemy-of-colonization.html To such Kosovo, with its economy devastated and its society in shambles, its foreign tutors granted independence in February 2008. Violating international law, they forcibly took away a part of the sovereign state of Serbia under the excuse that it was a case sui generis with unforeseeable consequences and, by applying the ancient divide and rule adage, continue to determine the fate of small nations…

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web@nspm.rs (Časlav Ocić) NSPM in English Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:00:00 +0000
The Balkans XX years after NATO aggression: the case of the Republic of Srpska – past, present and future http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-balkans-xx-years-after-nato-aggression-the-case-of-the-republic-of-srpska-–-past-present-and-future.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-balkans-xx-years-after-nato-aggression-the-case-of-the-republic-of-srpska-–-past-present-and-future.html The vision of Europe’s future which the Republic of Srpska perceives as the one that best serves the long term interests of different European people is one that affirms sovereignty, patriotism and neutrality – a Europe of its people that is truly democratic

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web@nspm.rs (Bogdana Koljević) NSPM in English Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:03:32 +0000
Из архиве - Remarks Before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/remarks-before-the-foreign-affairs-committee-of-the-european-parliament.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/remarks-before-the-foreign-affairs-committee-of-the-european-parliament.html I am ashamed as a European. As someone who knows in his heart that what has been done to Serbia is a fundamental violation of the very nature of not just the international system, but of the values that hold up the European construction.

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web@nspm.rs (Vuk Jeremić) NSPM in English Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:45:47 +0000
Dysfunction in the Balkans - Can the Post-Yugoslav Settlement Survive? http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/dysfunction-in-the-balkans-can-the-post-yugoslav-settlement-survive.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/dysfunction-in-the-balkans-can-the-post-yugoslav-settlement-survive.html  

The debate on the Balkans has been dominated for far too long by Western diplomats and academics who deny what is obvious to almost everyone on the ground: that multiethnicity in the region is a beautiful idea and a miserable reality

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web@nspm.rs (Timothy Less) NSPM in English Thu, 22 Dec 2016 10:59:31 +0000
Serbia’s latest would-be savior is a modernizer, a strongman - or both http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/serbias-latest-would-be-savior-is-a-modernizer-a-strongman-or-both.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/serbias-latest-would-be-savior-is-a-modernizer-a-strongman-or-both.html ‘We are fed up with being the bad guys of the world,’ says Aleksandar Vučić, the 46-year-old who’s in charge in Belgrade.

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web@nspm.rs (Politico) NSPM in English Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:25:23 +0000
Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-the-ukraine-crisis-is-the-wests-fault.html The task proved relatively easy, thanks to the thousands of Russian troops already stationed at a naval base in the Crimean port of Sevastopol. Crimea also made for an easy target since ethnic Russians compose roughly 60 percent of its population. Most of them wanted out of Ukraine.

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web@nspm.rs (John J. Mearsheimer) NSPM in English Fri, 22 Aug 2014 08:15:44 +0000
The Ghosts of World War I Circle over Ukraine http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-ghosts-of-world-war-i-circle-over-ukraine.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-ghosts-of-world-war-i-circle-over-ukraine.html But Putin did provide covert support to the rebels in an effort to keep them from being overrun. Most likely, he pursued this approach largely to protect his bargaining position, and that of eastern Ukraine, in any peace negotiations that might emerge.

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web@nspm.rs (Robert W. Merry) NSPM in English Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:20:17 +0000
Nato's action plan in Ukraine is right out of Dr Strangelove http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/nato-s-action-plan-in-ukraine-is-right-out-of-dr-strangelove.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/nato-s-action-plan-in-ukraine-is-right-out-of-dr-strangelove.html A Nato membership action plan – straight from the war room of Dr Strangelove – is General Breedlove's gift to the new dictatorship in Ukraine. "Rapid Trident" will put US troops on Ukraine's Russian border and "Sea Breeze" will put US warships within sight of Russian ports.

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web@nspm.rs (John Pilger) NSPM in English Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:06:06 +0000
Why Yanukovych Said No to Europe http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-yanukovych-said-no-to-europe.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-yanukovych-said-no-to-europe.html Yanukovych's preferred outcome would be to put real limits on any continued economic and political integration with Moscow—while seeking an accommodation with the EU that would help Ukraine's economy but not challenge his political dominance of the country.

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web@nspm.rs (Nikolas K. Gvosdev) NSPM in English Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:21:32 +0000
Bosnia and Syria: Intervention Then and Now http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/bosnia-and-syria-intervention-then-and-now.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/bosnia-and-syria-intervention-then-and-now.html Western policy is navigating between Scylla and Charybdis. Aligning with the Russians to prop up Assad would be both unconscionable and futile. Invading Syria would reproduce the folly of Iraq.

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web@nspm.rs (Michael Ignatieff) NSPM in English Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:33:25 +0000
Radical European Politics or New Colonialism? http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/radical-european-politics-or-new-colonialism.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/radical-european-politics-or-new-colonialism.html Because, if the logic of European integration has brought into question the value of democratic order in its historical, political and cultural sense, is it plausible to claim that contemporary reverse processes, will end differently? For now, however, such an objective possibility is opened, and it is proportional to participation of citizens i.e. to subjectivation and re-politization.

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web@nspm.rs (Bogdana Koljevic) NSPM in English Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:20:08 +0000
The Nabucco West Project Comes to an End http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-nabucco-west-project-comes-to-an-end.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-nabucco-west-project-comes-to-an-end.html Nabucco West would have delivered non-Russian Caspian natural gas to Central and Southern European countries that have been looking for a way to circumvent Russia, which they believe was bullying them with its energy resources.

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web@nspm.rs (Stratfor) NSPM in English Sat, 13 Jul 2013 07:06:31 +0000
Serbia should ‘’Icelandize’’ its European policy http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/serbia-should-icelandize-its-european-policy.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/serbia-should-icelandize-its-european-policy.html

Neither EU, nor NATO have monopoly in European or world relations, be they economic, political or strategic. Serbia is member of most important international organizations, has many friends. Her interests and rights in Kosovo and Metohija are guaranteed by UN SC resolution 1244.

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web@nspm.rs (Živadin Jovanović) NSPM in English Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:17:26 +0000
"Brazil is not for beginners!" http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/brazil-is-not-for-beginners.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/brazil-is-not-for-beginners.html Could it be the case that nowadays we are facing, broadcast live, the opening for a new grammar for thinking and acting politically? Could rebellion, resistance and protest be no longer considered as the bitter spice of the institutional designs and state politics?

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web@nspm.rs (Bethania Assy, Bruno Cava) NSPM in English Wed, 03 Jul 2013 22:02:14 +0000
How beneficial is globalization for low income Asian countries? http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/how-beneficial-is-globalization-for-low-income-asian-countries.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/how-beneficial-is-globalization-for-low-income-asian-countries.html However, the government expenditures in Bangladesh are clearly lower than in Pakistan. Consequently the main factor is not the level of government spending but the way it is spent! For example Bangladesh’s per capita expenditure for defence is three times lower than that of Pakistan.

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web@nspm.rs (Lina Ghosh) NSPM in English Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:06:55 +0000
Truth Is Offensive http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/truth-is-offensive.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/truth-is-offensive.html Will Assange be a replay of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty who on November 4, 1956, sought asylum in the US embassy in Budapest as Soviet tanks poured into Hungary to put down the anti-communist revolution? Cardinal Mindszenty lived for 15 years in the US embassy. Today it is “freedom and democracy” amerika that is copying Soviet practices during the cold war.

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web@nspm.rs (Paul Craig Roberts) NSPM in English Thu, 11 Apr 2013 05:06:19 +0000
The Good Intentions That Pave the Road to War http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-good-intentions-that-pave-the-road-to-war.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-good-intentions-that-pave-the-road-to-war.html This ideological construct is the basis for the Western-sponsored doctrine, forced on a more or less reluctant United Nations, of “R2P”, the ambiguous shorthand for both the “right” and the “responsibility” to protect peoples from their own governments.

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web@nspm.rs (Diana Johnstone) NSPM in English Sun, 03 Feb 2013 09:58:28 +0000
Sorry, Germany http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/sorry-germany.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/sorry-germany.html It was increasingly difficult to dispel the sense that Germans harbored, and continue to harbor, a good deal of Schadenfreude about the plight of the Greeks. The suddenly unhappy southerners, so the German thinking went, were being punished for their previous hedonism.

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web@nspm.rs (Jacob Heilbrunn) NSPM in English Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:02:16 +0000
Why Syria Is Not Libya http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-syria-is-not-libya.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/why-syria-is-not-libya.html This was, after all, how events unfolded in Libya. But Libya may not be the best prism through which to interpret events in Syria.

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web@nspm.rs (Nikolas K. Gvosdev) NSPM in English Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:00:19 +0000
New President, Old Problems http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/new-president-old-problems.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/new-president-old-problems.html The West had treated Nikolic as something of a leper because of his close collaboration with Hague-Tribunal indicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj and his support of Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo—all despite the fact that he broke with Seselj, established his own political party and has strongly supported Serbia’s EU aspirations.

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web@nspm.rs (Morton Abramowitz) NSPM in English Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:20:47 +0000
The Yugoslav wars of disintegration: Graveyard Humor in Belgrade http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-yugoslav-wars-of-disintegration-graveyard-humor-in-belgrade.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-yugoslav-wars-of-disintegration-graveyard-humor-in-belgrade.html The election of Nikolic probably shows that enthusiasm for joining the EU is waning, which would make sense considering the current crisis of the euro zone. But even a sinking ship may look like salvation to a drowning man.

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web@nspm.rs (Diana Johnstone) NSPM in English Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:52:44 +0000
Remembering Mihajlo Mihajlov http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/remembering-mihajlo-mihajlov.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/remembering-mihajlo-mihajlov.html Because of his belief that his fight for democracy was assigned to him by a divine force (Misha was very religious), and that his dissident mission had global significance, some people perceived him as conceited and indeed as a megalomaniac.

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web@nspm.rs (Aleksa Djilas) NSPM in English Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:06:30 +0000
How to steal an election http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/how-to-steal-an-election.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/how-to-steal-an-election.html Since the clever stuff can go wrong, ballot-stuffing is a safety valve. Politicians in shoddy democracies are learning what leaders in real ones have long known—you can fool only some of the people, and only some of the time.

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web@nspm.rs (Economist) NSPM in English Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:06:02 +0000
From Balkan Wars to Balkan Peace http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/from-balkan-wars-to-balkan-peace.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/from-balkan-wars-to-balkan-peace.html To keep going forward as a nation, I believe it is fundamentally important to continue to pursue each one of the four in a complementary and holistic manner—and to not sacrifice any one of them on the altar of furthering another. 

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web@nspm.rs (Vuk Jeremić) NSPM in English Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:12:01 +0000
Financial Terrorism: Wall Street’s Ratings Agencies Degrade Nine European Countries http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/financial-terrorism-wall-streets-ratings-agencies-degrade-nine-european-countries.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/financial-terrorism-wall-streets-ratings-agencies-degrade-nine-european-countries.html The traders were essentially double-dipping – getting paid twice on the deal. How was this possible? Once the security was sold, they didn't have a legal claim to get cash back from the bad loans – that claim belonged to bond investors -- but they did so anyway and kept the money.

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web@nspm.rs (Danny Schechter) NSPM in English Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:10:56 +0000
America’s Last Chance http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/americas-last-chance.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/americas-last-chance.html The reason we should vote for Ron Paul is to signal to the powers that be that we understand what they are doing to us. If Paul were to receive a large vote, it could have two good effects. One could be to introduce some caution into the establishment that would slow the march into more war and tyranny.  

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web@nspm.rs (Paul Craig Roberts) NSPM in English Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:02:29 +0000
The Kosovo Powder Keg http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-kosovo-powder-keg.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/the-kosovo-powder-keg.html The United States still has troops in Kosovo as part of the seemingly endless peacekeeping mission, and they would be at risk if the Kosovo powder keg explodes.

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web@nspm.rs (Ted Galen Carpenter) NSPM in English Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:52:45 +0000
Germany, France and the euro http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/germany-france-and-the-euro.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/germany-france-and-the-euro.html In any case, Mr Sarkozy has notched up another victory in his quest for a more exclusive hard core of euro-zone countries: he secured Mrs Merkel’s agreement to monthly meetings of the 17.

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web@nspm.rs (Economist) NSPM in English Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:01:18 +0000
What do the killings of Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi have in common? http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/what-do-the-killings-of-milosevic-saddam-hussein-and-gaddafi-have-in-common.html http://91.222.7.144/nspm-in-english/what-do-the-killings-of-milosevic-saddam-hussein-and-gaddafi-have-in-common.html Western firms had only restricted access to the markets. This was one of the reasons why Milosevic, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi were considered as “odious” by Western media and politicians.

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web@nspm.rs (Hannes Hofbauer) NSPM in English Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:04:48 +0000