SERBISTICS AND GEOPOLITICS: Essays on the Serbian question

Dr. Momčilo Subotić

Abstract

A new monograph of the rich book production of the Institute for Political Studies has just been published. A book that connects two concepts, the scientific discipline of the Serbian language and literature, the branch of Slavic studies, so SERBISTICS and another concept, which denotes the country, as space and politics, so GEOPOLITICS. Why does the author name the monograph ” SERBISTICS AND GEOPOLITICS” AND WHAT IS HE DEALING WITH IN THIS PART?

Dedicating the monograph to his granddaughter Irina, as a memory of starting school, the author studies: the right to self-determination, the geopolitical destiny of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, the policy of leaving Kosovo and Metohija, through Resolution 1244 and the Brussels Agreement. 

The author of the monograph, prof. Dr. Momčilo Subotić, deals with Cold War relations between the West and Russia before and after the Second World War, understanding the collapse of the SFRY, the right to self-determination, as well as issues of national identity. 

According to the author, one of the key components of national identity is the importance of the science of language, in our case SERBIAN. Therefore, the concept of Serbian studies must be viewed integrally, because apart from language and literature in a broader sense, it also includes cultural, social and political institutions, processes and relationships. The aim of this paper is to point out the decisive contribution of Sava Mrkalj, the predecessor of Vuk Karadžić, as the first Serbian learned philologist and one of the most educated Serbs of his time, in the reform of the Serbian alphabet (spelling, language and script).

At the very end, it deals with the current situation of Russia’s special operation in Ukraine, and the goal of that is actually to point out important historical moments. And when it comes to Serbia and the Serbian people, one should reason on the level of historical experience: there is no Serbia, a united and democratic Serbian state without a strong Russia as its historical protector. 

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