Echoes of War in Serbia: A Missed Opportunity for the “Broader Right”?

Abstract

This article explores the ramifications of the war in Ukraine on Serbian politics. Attention is paid to the governing Serbian Progressive Party/SNS and the “broader right” (national conservative, radical, and extreme right) between 2022 and 2025. This study demonstrates that the war granted Serbia’s “broader right” a temporary “common ground” but not a long-term opportunity structure against SNS. The nexus of Russophilia in Serbia is not “fixed” but situationally adaptive. It is conditional upon ideology, the patterns of political engagement among heterogeneous actors, and the unpredictable impact of watersheds in domestic politics.