Abstract

In an increasingly globalized and integrated world, citizens of nations are put in new positions where their beliefs, values and goals for the future of their nation become intertwined with, and at times overruled by, those of a larger, superordinate union in which the nation is a member. The present chapter takes a close look at one such country, Serbia, and explores how its politics of integration into the European Union become embedded within discourses of compatibility and continuity of the national within the supranational. It will be argued that imagining the future of the nation becomes increasingly hard in times of political change, particularly if that future is seen as causing a rupture from, rather than continuity with, the past.