Ambassadors slap our wrists from time to time, reminding us that powerful countries of the world perceive Serbia as a country without a state and without a respectable ally which could protect its interests. Consequently, Serbia is loosing its reputation and its influence in the neighborhood, as well as the opportunity to defend its interests in a proper way.
We are speaking of the process of almost twenty years, during which none of the rulers were able to find the effective responses to the challenges that the country was facing at that time, and is still facing today. More energy and national resources have been used for the pursuit of the “traitors to the national interests” and the campaign against them, than for the true attempts to define and adopt an executive strategy to overcome the crisis.
The platforms for the international politics were built mainly according to the immediate internal political needs and did not give the desired results. The same fact can be applied to the latest so-called four pillars of foreign policy strategy. In such circumstances, Kosovo has been, and still is, more of an international problem than a Serbian internal matter that can be significantly affected by Serbian authorities.
Was Serbia able to compete better and gain more in such circumstances, have certain tycoons somewhere decided to “rip her apart”, or her leaders simply did not understand the time they were in. Is Serbian diplomacy capable of learning from its own history or each political group believes that they are the starting point of everything? These are just some of the questions that historians and analysts are trying to answer for the portal of Novi Magazin.
We still haven’t heard what the authorities consider as truly possible