Abstract (eng)
The present diploma thesis deals with the re-nationalization in Serbia in light of the
debates over the Kosovo issue. Aiming at an academic definition of the terms
“nation” as well as “nationalism”, it is the main concern of this work, which is based
on the relations between Serbia and Kosovo from a historical perspective, to analyze
the deep seated levels of conflict referring to political, economic and social
components. The central assumption of the paper regards the question: is there a
historical dimension in the conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo, or do
other factors determine this conflict situation. In the course of the analysis, different
sources of power of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic will be tested for their
implication and relevance in the emerging re-nationalization in Serbia during the 1980’s, but also to raise the question if the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia (SFRY) at the end of the 1980’s has to be seen in the light of an
unavoidable process of continuation in sense of the global breakdown of state
socialist systems, or as a conscious awareness by Yugoslav elites, which resulted in
the Yugoslav Wars of secession in the 1990’s.