Yugoslavia
Marching to the beat of a different drummer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11348306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Seroka (University of North Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1-3 |
| Pages | 495-499 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of European Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0191-6599 • E-ISSN: 1873-541X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/0191-6599(94)90252-6 |
| OpenAlex | W2004493302 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The case of Yugoslavia in 1992 is a case of disintegration in Europe and a case of madness that affects European thought. It is a case that runs directly counter to the expectations of the theme of ‘European Integration and the European Mind’ discussed at the Aalborg conference. We must remember that what happens in northwest Balkans happens in Europe. The population, economy, philosophy, values and beliefs are part of Europe. The responsibility is part of Europe as well. The tragedy of the northwest Balkans cannot-be explained by rational, humanistic models. It is not the inevitable result of some dialectic, typology or developmental model. Furthermore, what happens is not the result of the actions of a discrete set of sick individuals whose elimination would make things right. What we have seen in the northwest Balkans is the failure of individuals, groups and nations to take responsibility for the course of history. We have seen a group of nations become captives to a set of dysfunctional historical myths. The responsibility for this failure includes those who have power in the region; it includes the people who live in the region. Most of all, the failure to take responsibility embraces all of us who believe in a civil society, rule of law, democratic pluralism, and individual rights and freedom and who did nothing when these basic freedoms were violated. In other words, all of us share part of the burden of this failure to take action. Our inaction in the Balkans has given a lie to the concept of European integration, as well as to the older values of equality, fraternity and freedom. Our inaction has been tantamount to permitting a police force in a city to decide that one of its neighbourhoods should be delivered to the hands of the criminally insane. The true tragedy of Yugoslavia, therefore, has been the politics of indifference to treat the madness around us
Democracy · Dialectic · Epistemology · Humanism · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics · Sociology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |