Abstract (may include machine translation)
Contemporary political discussion in Serbia sometimes reads like a history book of Serbia in the twentieth century. Figures such as Dragoljub ‘Draža’ Mihailović (Chetnik2 leader in the Second World War), Josip Broz ‘Tito’ (Partisan leader and then president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFRJ), Slobodan Milošević (Serbian and Yugoslav president in the 1990s), or Vojislav Šešelj (paramilitary leader in the 1990s) would fit in very well among the members of today’s parliament. Indeed, the most recent bloody episodes of Serbia’s history are so little distant that the two latter persons on this list were still both influential players in Serbian party politics in the early twenty-first century, which is the subject of this chapter. Šešelj is still running in parliamentary elections, and would be an MP if he were not facing trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Party Politics in the Western Balkans |
Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
Pages | 99-118 |
Number of pages | 20 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781135235857 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780203866221 |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
Externally published | Yes |