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The New Century - August-September 2013 the Western Community Quarterly of CENTER FOR EURO-ATLANTIC STUDIES • August-September 2013. • ISSN 2217-9925 www.ceas-serbia.org ceaserbia @Ceasserbia Jelena Milić, CEAS Director Why a publiC debate on serbia’s nato MeMbership is needed . pg.02 Sanja Mešanović, M.Sc. hoW to a More efeCtive defense and seCurity seCtor in the eu . pg.06 Tamara Kaliterna, CEAS Associate betWeen resolutions and intervention . pg.10 Jelena Milić, CEAS Director and Tamara Kaliterna, CEAS Associate dialogue on the responsibility to proteCt doCtrine at the un general asseMbly . pg.13 Haki Abazi, Program Director for the Western Balkans at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund syrians are in urgent need of our help - - bashar al assad Must go . pg.17 Yavor Siderov the bulgarian politiCal landsCape is MuCh Changed after the birth of genuine Civil soCiety . pg.20 Irina Rizmal, CEAS Researcher Keeping up With the private seCurity seCtor . pg.24 Research Mapping of open governMent partnership in south east europe: the Case of serbia . pg.30 Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies – CEAS Dr. Dragoslava Popovića 15, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Tel/fax: +381 11 323 9579; offi[email protected], www.ceas-serbia.org Jelena Milić, CEAS Director Why A PUBLIC DEBATE ON SERBIA’S NATO mEmBERShIP IS NEEDED „Critics of the current Government will not bring Serbia down.“ Aleksandar Vučić the show „Teška Reč“, TV Pink, 29.9.2013. l’État, c’est moi – the principle based on circumstances more clearly in relation with which ever more openly the progressive party Kosovo’s independence. by doing so, in a leader, the first deputy prime Minister of serbia country with a difficult legacy of committed war and the Coordinator of all security services, crimes, the West, consciously or not, aleksandar vučić, is attempting to reign over contributed to stopping the process of serbia, is not complementary with the notion of personnel vetting in the security system - which a modern, stable, democratic country in the the mechanisms of transitional justice 21st century, with a clear separation of powers, legitimately enable - much sooner than it was rule of law and respect for human rights. supposed to. thirteen years since the start of its political this is why it is dangerous to have someone and economic transition, serbia is still on the with such a large baggage of bad political verge of slipping into a “captured state” model stances and decisions, like vučić, states in two of politico-economic relations. the tv shows – o.K. i have sinned, i realize that, i authoritarian trend based on which vučić is have changed – and self-lustrates himself in this imposing himself, and based on which he was way, while society and the Western imposed upon us, additionally slows down the international community approve. such a process of consolidation. Meanwhile, rinsed-out vučić then imposes himself as the transitional justice mechanisms failed to most influential man in the country and society, provide the desired results, for which serbia is although based on state of affairs in the security not the only one to blame. the Western system in general as well as the fact that a new international community has previously given security-information agency (bia) director has up on their essence, refusing to convey to not yet been named, such a portrayal of him is serbia, loudly and clearly, the reasons for which quite questionable. the trend is in the point at it was bombed, if the protection of civilians and which recently vučić quite openly equated the prevention of excessive use of force were criticism of his government with bringing down the actual reason, and bring these the state, supported by the obvious silence of 2 The New century - August-September 2013 the Western community. than the rest of the planet, also contributes, hence the open question of how much each and every time to our ability to review not leeway there will remain for the possibility of only the relationship of the state and the public correcting the consequences of these trends by towards the protection of human rights and January 2014 when the formal start of accession freedoms, but also the state of affairs in the negotiations with the eu is expected, if the state security system. it should not be forgotten that of serbia continues disintegrating like this, but the news that there is about two thousand also whether the process itself is persons on secret illegal payroll lists of the comprehensive enough for this. disintegration, Ministry of interior, published only a week of course, is not caused by the action of us, before the pride Week, passed completely critics of the current regime, as vučić presents without any kind of denial from the police or the it, but comes due to the inability or lack of will government. of the state to secure constitutionally the existence of these formations confirms guaranteed rights for all of its citizens and that even thirteen years since the october maintain its monopoly over the organized use changes, the state of serbia has not given up the of force. services of the main pillars of Milošević’s how else to explain the fact that the state is criminal regime. these are the „individuals“ and incapable of securing even the walk within the „self-organized“ paramilitary groups who pride Week, announced a year earlier, the route carried out false ethnic incidents in bosnia and of which – around the block consisting of mainly Croatia in the nineties, followed by the nineties public administration buildings - is already a wars whose flames they ignited, and great enough compromise of the organizers in implemented their arbitrary terror and crimes order to make it easier for the state to respond ordered by the government which regular units to as many security risks as possible. neither the should not commit, although they terribly thesis that the state was defeated by external slipped into it. these are the same elements – hooligans and violent right-wingers; „spontaneous disappointed citizens“ who burn nor that it did not succumb to the pressure of embassies precisely of those countries who these so-called hooligans by prohibiting the were among the first to support Kosovo’s walk, holds water. the walk was prohibited declaration of independence, the same either due to the consciousness of the „national „spontaneously organized homophobes“ with security council in its wider composition“, radios and knowledge of movement of Ministry whatever that means, that there is no single of interior official units who attacked peaceful chain of command in the security system which citizens and state property during the walk developments during the walk would show; or within the 2010 pride, the same „campers who because the state leadership does not actually the russians send humanitarian aid“ who want to lead serbia towards the eu, but dares imposed order at the barricades in Jarinje and not to publicly say so. hence it uses instead its brnjak in 2011. the state of serbia has clearly mercenaries to threaten violence. and then not given these up, and what remains to be they use this threat as an excuse for prohibiting determined is only whether this is because their the walk and promotion of conservatism which relationship with parts of the security system is often goes further, entering the field of hate stronger than the alleged desire of state speech. both scenarios are equally bad for authorities to lead serbia into the eu, or serbian citizens, as they intensify the processes because the entire process of european of putinization which increasingly distance it integrations is supported by the new born from democratic consolidation and europeans only because of eu financial support europeanization. and the coming into power which enabled the progressive and socialist party control over organization of the pride Week, a main financial flows, without a genuine manifestation which makes belgrade part of the intention to move to towards real reforms world, the Western, humane and more inclusive through eu integration. thus the process of The New century - August-September 2013 3 putinization of serbia continues through foreign policy which serbia lacks, and with rendering system institutions useless, creating national security and defense strategies, which personality cults, attempts at establishing party do not comply with the eu lisbon treaty, or the instead of democratic control over the security brussels agreement. system, political deals brokered with criminal the intergovernmental meeting, or the structures as well as paramilitary actions which infamous specific date of the start of serbia’s the state hires for carrying out the dirty work. negotiations with the eu will apparently take there was enough circumstantial evidence of place in January 2014, regardless of the the poor state in serbia even from before, but aforementioned, under the condition, of course, unfortunately not even the „public debate“ that the november local elections in Kosovo initiated by two factions within the serbian take place without any serious incidents. government, the daily newspapers Kurir and Cancellation of the walk, even despite the harsh informer, on the state of the Ministry of interior, rhetoric condemnation, will not be overviewed and which the prohibition of the walk only laid with all its causes and consequences, but will be bare, will contribute to the government, the treated by the Western international opposition in serbia, or the Western community as a populist and two-faced rhetoric international community to finally put into of the progressive and socialist party leadership focus the need for a more comprehensive in light of the increasingly certain parliamentary approach to assessing the state in the security elections. system, the necessary reform steps , and define germany and great britain are trying to these as a priority.
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