Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The paper analyzes how the Kosovo crisis was described in the SANU (the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) Memorandum, an unfinished document on which the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts worked in 1985 and 1986 with the aim of explaining the causes of the Yugoslav crisis and offering solutions for overcoming it. Serbian academics viewed the Kosovo issue in light of Serbia's status in the Yugoslav federation according to the 1974 Constitution, the relationship between Serbia and the provinces, and the position of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. The Memorandum emphasized that Serbia was unequal in relation to other republics, because it alone did not have jurisdiction over its entire territory due to the great autonomy of the provinces. The difficult situation of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and the forms of violence to which they were subjected by the Albanian majority in the province were described. It was concluded that Serbs were victims of genocide in the province and it was warned that the policy of creating an ethnically pure Kosovo and Greater Albania could not only endanger the survival of Yugoslavia but also destabilize the entire region.
Source: Bastina
Author: Slobodan Selinić
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Award: G2470037198
OpenAlex ID: W7207736014