According to the volume editors, the texts brought together here are a ‘chronicle of the appearance, waning and loss of hope’ that post-Milošević rule in Serbia would reform and modernize this society and bring the country into the European Union. The subjects of texts are a critique of the regime of Slobodan Milošević, advocacy for a constitutional assembly that would have democratic legitimacy, critique of the political elites after October 5^th 2000, when Milošević was brought down, the breaking off of Montenegro, and the problem of the 2006 Serbian Constitution.