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Croatia in European Regionalisation: Regionalisation as Integration or Geography of Power
Mirela SLUKAN ALTIĆ
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Sažetak
Croatia as a meeting point of various natural regions,
cultural circles, languages and religions has had an
extremely transitional character and has therefore, regarding
the prevailing criteria of regionalisation, often been moved
from one region to another. This has been the case for the
last 70 years and Croatia has been, in various
regionalisations of Europe, defined as a southern Europe,
eastern Europe, central Europe, south eastern and
Mediterranean-Danube country. Such 'removal' of Croatia
from one region to another was a result of various criteria
for regionalisation conditioned by changes in the
geographical understanding of the region as well as by
changes in the state-politics in the area of the European
continent. In recent times, in the context of the integration
processes of Europe, the formation of Euroregions is taking
place, which is entirely changing the former understanding
of European regionalisation. Namely, borders of older
European regions had strictly respected the zones of a state’s territory and the regional borders always followed a state’s
borders. The new system of Euroregion, which insists on the
establishment of trans-national and trans-cultural regions,
certainly has many advantages, however, in general trends
of globalisation and crisis of identity it carries many risks.
Under the mask of regionalisation, decentralisation and the
creation of natural geographic entities without the barriers of
national borders, it ultimately conceals integration and
weakens national identity, within the goal of forming an
overall European identity.
Ključne riječi
regionalisation of Europe; integration; national identity; geographical position of Croatia; Euroregion
Hrčak ID:
25451
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Datum izdavanja:
7.7.2008.
Posjeta: 4.054 *