Review article

Regional Cooperation and the Question of Minorities

Mirjana Domini ; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Minorities – a live organism – represent a lasting link between different cultures and nations, which cannot be easily overlooked and simply severed. Here lie all the possibilities that give the complex of minorities its charm and make room for enriching regional co-operation with contents without which this co-operation would be incomplete.
Through analysis of some documents of regional agreements: the Final Act of the Conference on European Security and Co-operation, the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity, and the Charter of the U.S. States Organisation, the authoress attempts to point out the growing presence of the minorities question on the international political scene as a logical sequence of the democratization of international relations. In her opinion, these documents should be seen as a reflection of compromise which can be attained through international relations. At the same time, the documents concerned undoubtedly indicate the need for the minorities to be respected as a significant factor in international regional co-operation. In closing, a statement is made on the problems of minorities which exist in interdependence on and interlacing with international relations, and that only in such comprehended, tangible and accepted reality should minorities be viewed as a factor of regional understanding and co-operation.

Keywords

minorities; regional co-operation; international relations

Hrčak ID:

128914

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/128914

Publication date:

30.9.1985.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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