Conference paper
POST-DAYTON CROATIA
Zvonko Lerotić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author analyzes the position of Croatia following the Dayton accord. These accords have secured the integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on the consociational principle as stipulated by Arend Lijphart. However, fierce integrational nationalisms still rage in B&H, they spill over into the neighbouring states where they create military and political instability. In Croatia, the populist and vindictive nationalism is on the wane, but no so the original democratic nationalism. The latter is manifested in its twin task: one is to join the prestigious union of European states while the other is to go on with the unification of the entire Croatian ethnic corpus. The first brand of nationalism has been trying by hook or by crook to ensure a place for Croatia in the Council of Europe in order to escape the trap of a community of Balkan states as envisaged by Eurostrategists and their latest "globally regional European" policy. Thus, the post-Dayton Croatia will be marked by fault-lines and conflicts between these two types of nationalisms; one, pro-European and the other integrational (aimed at bringing together the entire Croatian ethnos).
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105859
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Publication date:
4.10.1996.
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