SERBIAN IDENTITY AND MONTENEGRISM – CURRENT RELATIONS OF POWER

Dr. Vladan Stanković

Abstract

The national identity of the Serbs and Montenegrism are two
parallel and exclusive phenomena. Th e representatives of the
Montenegrin national identity deny their Serbian ethnic origin,
with the help of the „Civil concept of the Montenegrin nation“
assimilate national Serbs in Montenegro. Th ese assimilation
processes of Serbs permanently destabilize montenegrin society
and undermine stability in the Western Balkans region. Th e exit
strategy would represent, for the beginning: a consociational
model for the organization of Montenegro, as a society of
multiethnic and inter-religious communities, based on equal
principles that would take place in parallel with the processes of
regional integration in the Western Balkans region.

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