Original scientific paper
DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Lidija Čehulić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The beginnings of the scientific study of international relations in Croatia precede its inauguration and international recognition as an independent state in the early 1990s. Already in the former state of Yugoslavia, there were pioneer attempts in Zagreb at serious research into the complex science of international relations. In 1962, the Faculty of Political Science was founded; one of the subjects was international relations. At the end of the 1970s, and at the same Faculty, a postgraduate study program of international relations was launched. Zagreb, due to the quality and quantity of its experts and their dedicated pedagogical work, the publication of their works, and their contacts with their colleagues abroad, had the central role in the development of a modern science of international relations, not only in the former state but in the wider region of South-East Europe. The declaration of the independent Republic of Croatia, and geo-political and geo-economic changes in the international environment, pose new challenges, obstacles, opportunities as well as objective needs for a new approach and the development of the study of international relations, the accompanying institutions and the publication of relevant literature.
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27492
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Publication date:
23.5.2000.
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