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Post-Yugoslav anti-war movements as an early example of new transnational agency

Global anti-war protest against the war in Iraq in 2003 and so called anti-globalist organizing during last decade have caught the attention of social scientist because of some innovative forms of organizing and communicating. This new political agent was identified as new Transnational Social Movement (TSM). Paradigmatic and widely analyzed for its strategic use of new communication technologies, its transnational range, and influence on global justice movement is the Zapatista movement from 1994. Even though (post-)Yugoslav anti-war organizing has had some similarities with the Zapatistas (both were transnational in character and pioneered the strategic use of new information and communication technologies), post-Yugoslav efforts have remained largely unrecognized by either domestic or international scholars. In the research I’ve presented I argue that post- Yugoslav antiwar organizing should be credited as an early example of contemporary transnational activism, offering valuable insights into dynamic, possibilities and shortcomings of transnational movements. Decade of intense international presence in the region of former Yugoslavia could be also considered an early episode of emerging global civil society (however debatable the term ‘global civil society’ might be).

(post-)Yugoslav anti-war movement; transnational social movements; global civil society

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