Foreign Policy Attitudes of Political Parties in Serbia: How Far From the East, How Close to the West?
Year: 2025

Following democratic changes in 2000, the new Serbian (Yugoslavian) govern-ment proclaimed European and Euro-Atlantic integration as “the basis of the country’s foreign policy orientation” (Dragojlović et al., 2011: 295). While acces-sion to the European Union (EU) was placed as the primary foreign policy goal in 2001, the 2004 Defence Strategy additionally labelled joining NATO as one of the country’s “vital security and defence interests” (Скупштина СЦГ, 2004). Howe-ver, such an orientation ha