Original scientific paper
The Origin and the Integration of Nation as a Scientific Problem
Petar Korunić
; Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The author examines the origin and the integration of nations in general and also from the viewpoint of the Croatian nation. The phenomenon and the development of the nation are treated within the framework of the development of society and social sub-systems. The author maintains that nations develop and are formed as complex national communities of the new integrational type during long-term historical and social processes, but only in the framework of civic society. Precisely for this reason he examines the mutual dependence of the nation and democratic sub-systems in the society concerned. The democratic civic system and its sub-systems (democracy, civic freedoms, parliamentarism, the state of law, governmental rights and laws, the multiparty system, pluralism of roles, opinions, goals, etc.) essentially influences the formation and the development of democratical national communities. These, therefore, are two compatible historical formations. The development and/or stagnation of a formation (of the democratic system) influence the development and/or stagnation of the other historical formation (the democratic national community) and vice versa.
Keywords
nation; civil society; democracy; national communities; modern history; ethnicity
Hrčak ID:
126627
URI
Publication date:
30.9.1997.
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