ABSTRACT
In an imagined continuum of “transition” Serbia is both an extreme and an exception. It is an exception because it was a part of ex-Yugoslavia, which itself was an exception in many ways, because “transition” there is connected to the wars in which the Serbian regime had a decisive role, and because it was an object of NATO intervention. It is an extreme in the sense of the level of destruction of institutions, of making institutional blockades, of sacrificing its own and other nations’ citizens, i.e., the total price that, in the case of Serbia, one “perverted” transition means. (Blagojević, 2000a, p. 35)
