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Institutional Aspects of the National Security of the Republic of Croatia After the War for Independence
Marko Horvat
Boško Picula
Marko Trnski
Sažetak
ls the student population aware of the decisions of Croatian politicians concerning Croatian national security and which aspects does it generally hold to be especially significant for the country five years after the end of the War for Independence and the establishment of territorial integrity?
The above-cited questions were the starting point of a research conducted among the students of the University of Zagreb under the name of "Institutional aspects of the national security od Croatia after the War for Independence".
The research team's goal was to establish the students' interest in national security by relating the totality of national security primarily with the Croatian political institutions, but also with the current events in this sphere. Thus questions were asked not only regarding the students' opinions on the performance of political institutions and their contribution to national security and regarding the students' confidence in the military, the police and the intelligence community, but also concerning the possibility of Croatia joining NATO, the states presenting the biggest threat to Croatia, surveillance of the work of intelligence services and the compulsory military service and the civilian serving of the same. Finally, the research attempted to relate personally estimated interest and awareness of political occurrences with the propositioned aspects of national security.
Taking as its starting point the basic hypothesis that students in the sample regard political institutions as key factors in contributing national security, and that they also hold concrete opinions on other security aspects, the research resulted in the affirmation of the basic propositions, and it also showed some difference between the male and female section of the sample, particularly regarding the surveillance of and confidence in the intelligence services, the possible union with NATO, and the regulation of compulsory military service.
Ključne riječi
students; national security; The Republic of Croatia; NATO; compulsory military service; intelligence services; confidence
Hrčak ID:
202702
URI
Datum izdavanja:
20.12.2000.
Posjeta: 1.503 *