Ethics of an International Political Relation: Serbia and the European Union

Mirjana S. Radojičić

doi:10.5937/zrffp45-7157

Mirjana S. Radojičić University of Belgrade, Institute of Philosophy and Theory of Society

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5937/zrffp45-7157

Keywords: international politics, international ethics, Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija, European Union,

Abstract

The subject of this paper is the relation between Serbia and the European Union viewed from an international ethic perspective. The author tries to point to the continuity of the Euro-American policy, directed with interests and not with values towards this former Yugoslav republic and its majority nation. The central topic of this paper is the stand taken by the European Union towards the complex and decades-long Kosmet issue. The author is trying to prove that the issue, such as it is, represents a continuity of an inconsistent attitude of most European states towards the Serbian state territorial issue, which attitude has been persisting for two decades. The stand taken by the author is that by acquiescing to the formation and stabilization of a newly-created state in the Serbian territory, the European Union has actually assumed the role of a medium of overseas attempts at attaining as painlessly as possible the goal of the secession of Kosovo, which territory has been proclaimed of special American national interest and hence, of a legitimate influence. In the conclusion of this paper, the author points to possible consequences that the method of resolving this important state territorial issue could have on the stability of the Western Balkans in near or remote future.

References

Bussek, E. (2007). An Open Gate Towards the East, Belgrade: Clio.

Chossudovsky, M. (2003). The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order. Pincourt: Center for Research on Globalization.

Cohn, M. (2000). “U.S./NATO Non-Humanitarian Armed Intervention in Yugoslavia Violated International Law”. Filozofski godišnjak, 13, pp. 325–342.

Hofbauer, H. (2010). „Kosovo is Amerikan”. Strategic Culture Foundation, 24. 8. 2010.

Конюхова, И. А. (2007). «Принцип государственного суверенитета в международном и конституционном праве». Международние правовие стандарти в конституционном праве, Москва: ИНИОН РАН и Росийская академия правосудия, pp. 9–39.

Lutovac, Z. (1994). CSCE and National Minority Rights with Special Emphasis on the FR Yugoslavia (unpublished master's thesis) Belgrade: FPN.

Nakarada, R. (2008). “European Answer to the European Problem”. Nova srpska politička misao, XVI (1–2), pp. 7–17.

Nakarada, R. (2009). Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Problems of Interpretation, Confrontation and Transition, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik.

Ponomareva, E. (2008). “Quasi-Statehood as an Instrument of Hegemony: the Kosovo Case”. Nova srpska politička misao, XV (1–2), pp. 105–120.

Radojičić, М. (2013). Interests and Morality in International Politics. The Case Study: Break-up/Disintegration of SFR Yugoslavia. Belgrade: Prosveta.

Rakic, V. (2010). “Moral Foundations of Europe in Upcoming World Order”. Srpska politička misao, XXIX (3), pp. 53–64.

Samardžić, S. (2009). “The Kosovo-Metohija Problem from the European Integrations Angle”. In Slobodan Samardžić (ed.), Serbia in the European Union Association Process, Belgrade: Službeni glasnik, pp. 193–238.

Stepić, M. (2005). “The Territorial and the Geopoliticial in the Serbian National Interest”. Nacionalni interes, 1, pp. 29–56.

Vetschera, H. (2007). “Cooperative Security—The Concept and its Application in South Eastern Europe”. In: Ernst Feldberbaуer, Predrag Jurekovic, Frederic Labarre (eds.) Approaching or Avoiding Cooperative Security?: The Western Balkans in the Aftermath of the Kosovo Settlement Proposal of the Riga Summit (pp. 48–60). Vienna: National Defence Academy.