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have not abandoned their territorial aspirations. The period after
2000 abounds with instances attesting to the wide support the project
implemented by Milošević enjoyed. The assassination of Zoran
Đinđić in 2003 laid bare the Milošević legacy and the depth of society’s
devastation and demoralization. Vojislav Koštunica, and later
Boris Tadić too, showed during their terms in office that Serbia has
continued to pursue Milošević’s policy by other means and that it has
for the most part succeeded in this (Bosnia and Kosovo are still ethnically
divided).
Without support from the international community, above all
the European Union and the United States, Serbia appears incapable
of bringing forth internal changes that would enable it to move in
the direction of Euro-Atlantic integrations.
The new reality in Serbia has inspired many international
researchers to analyze Serbia from a new angle: its resistance to
modernization. A number of valuable books and analyses have been
written, including Florian Bieber’s Nationalismus in Serbien vom
Tode Titos zum Ende der Ära Milošević (Lit Verlag, 2005); James
Gow’s chapter with Milena Michalski, ”The Impact of the War on
Serbia”, in the book Sabrina Ramet co-edited with Vjeran Pavlaković,
Serbia since 1989 (Washington Press, 2005). Holm Sundhausen’s
book published in 2007 2 , as well as Sabrina Ramet’s many books
and analyses, are among the best works to have been published on
the subject outside Serbia. Within Serbia, numerous works have been
published. Notable among these are the annual reports for 2000–2008
by the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia, which focus
on Serb nationalism and its new forms that burgeoned during the
various terms in office of Vojislav Koštunica during that period. Valuable
studies have also been written by critically minded Serbian
historians and sociologists such as Latinka Perović, Ivan Đurić, Olja
2 Holm Sundhauzen, Geschichte Serbiens 19./20. Jarhundert, Bohlau
Verlag Ges . M .b .H und Co . KG, Wien .Koln .Weimar 2007
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