Aleksandar Mitić (2024). Global Strategic Narrative Wars: The Battle for Serbia. Belgrade: Institute of International Politics and Economics, ISBN 978-86-7067-341-0, pp.316.
Abstract
The concept of strategic narrative has emerged as a leading analytical framework for understanding the changing global order. Defined by Alister Miskimmon as way in which political actors attempt to construct a shared meaning of the past, present, and future of international politics to shape the behaviour of domestic and international actors, it is particularly suited to today’s uncertain international order and unruly online communications environment. Yet the concept’s scholarly elaboration has sometimes been limited by a Western-centric standpoint, focusing on how Western strategic narratives might build consensus and avert conflict, or on how the West might combat others’ narratives.4 In Global Strategic Narrative Wars, Aleksandar Mitić brings a different perspective, foregrounding the battle for Serbia because it is not only a country at the centre of geopolitical competition but also a country through which many of the constituent themes of today’s strategic narrative wars collide.
