تفكك يوغسلافيا و انهيار مشروع صربيا الكبرى

Abstract EN

The project of Great Serbia has arisen in the nineteenth century connected with a historical claim for a state needs to be regaining as much lands belonging to the Serbian Monarchy in the Middle Ages as possible.

It is also related to a national ethnic project aiming at unifying all Serbs in a single state.

Serbs consider the establishment of the Yugoslavian state in 1918 as an achievement of such national objective.

Therefore, they have insisted on keeping this state under their dominance whether in the monarchical Yugoslavia (1918-1941) or the Socialist Federal Yugoslavia (1945-1992) by applying centralization and the dominance of the Serbs on all country institutions including military, administrative and security ones.

Besides the Serbs, the Yugoslavian state has included several other nationalities the most prominent of which are the Croats, Slovenes, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Albanians and Montenegrins.

Each one of them has their own national project aiming at through establishing their own homeland.

These projects were in conflict with the project of Great Serbia.

Thus, these national groups, since the establishment of Yugoslavia, have got involved in political contests, even military ones, ended up in the 1990s by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the collapse of the project of Great Serbia.