Review article

The Globalisation Theory in Croatia

Tonči Kursar ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The author gives a review of the globalisation debate in Croatia.
According to him, there was no globalisation discussion in Croatia
during the nineties, the so-called golden age of globalisation. Still,
many articles and books have been published after 2000. The author
claims that two collections of essays, Globalisation and Democracy
and Globalisation and its Reflections in Croatia are the most important
contributions to the early stage of the discussion. There are four
questions being asked in these collections: what globalisation is, what
are its normative implications, whether globalisation is an old or a
new phenomena, and what are its costs and benefits for the small nation
states.
In the second part of the article, the author reviews the ‘current’
state of discussion. He gives a critical review of the new books on
this subjects (Politics of Identity, The West on Trial and The World
Empire and its Enemies). In these books the same questions are repeated,
but globalisation is no longer considered as something set in
stone by the laws of history or by the activities of multinational corporations.

Keywords

globalisation debate; Croatia; culture; identity; liberalism; metapolitics; nation-state

Hrčak ID:

26407

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26407

Publication date:

3.6.2008.

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