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SERBIAN INTELLECTUALS AND THE WAR IN THE BALKANS



WRITTEN BY PROF.DR. IGOR PRIMORATZ,
DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
HEBREW UNIVERSITY, JERUSALEM 91905
ISRAEL

Summary: The wars in Croatia, Bosnia, and now Kosova are stages of a single
process that can only be understood as the Greater Serbian ideology at work.
This ideology has been created, elaborated, and disseminated by intellectuals.
The author looks into the ways in which Serbian intellectuals have been actively
or passively involved in, or have related to, the current dispensation of this
ideology and the war waged in order to realize it.

Published in Sociological Imagination, 36 (2/3), 1999: 143-153

On this web with kind permission of Professor Primoratz

The war in Bosnia is of a piece with the war in Croatia that preceded it, and of
the war in Kosova that is being waged at the time of this writing. These are not
three separate, successive wars; they are three stages of a single process of
the break-up of Yugoslavia. The continuity between these stages is provided,
first, by the fact that the Serbs have been a part to the conflict since its
beginning and to this day. They have initiated the conflict, iposed it on one
after another of their neighbors, and for the most part determined its anture
and scope. Its anomalous nature and scope-anomalous, that is, against the
beckground of what had been thought likely, and indeed possible, in Europe since
World War II and the Nuremberg trials - is the second, related aspect of this
continuity. Both can only be understood as the Greater Serbian ideology at work.

Like any other ideology, the Greater Serbian idea has been created, elaborated,
and popularized by intellectuals. In this paper I look into the main ways in
which Serbian intellectuals have been involved in, or have related to, the
current dispensation of this idea and the war waged in order to put it into
practice.



    Contents (we skip the introductory section "Intellectuals: Cultural and
    Intellectual"):

    

 1. The Greater Serbian Ideology
 2. Serbia's Political Intellectuals
 3. Serbia's Cultural Intellectuals
 4. References



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Related references:



 * Igor Primoratz: Boycott of Serbian Academics, Perspectives on the
   Professions, Vol. 15, No1, Fall 1995.
 * Igor Primoratz: Israel and the war in the Balkans
 * Vladimir Zerjavic: Invention and lies of Dr Bulajic on Internet
 * Josip Pecaric: Serbian Myth about Jasenovac, Naklada Stih, Zagreb 2001. ISBN
   953-6959-00-3 (494 pages), summary
 * Darko Zubrinic: Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac and saving the Jews in Croatia
   during the WW2
 * New York Times: Einstein Accuses Yugoslavian Rulers in Savant's Murder,

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