Original scientific paper

INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS

Anton Grizold ; Fakulteta za družbene vede v Ljubljani, Ljubljana, Slovenija

Abstract

In today’s world, marked by an increasing interdependence, national security is becoming a component of international security, which is not a mere sum of individual national securities, but a permanent international framework of universally acceptable values. Inter-ethnic relations today are central for a state’s security, as well as for international order. There is the question whether international system must guarantee individual and collective security of ethnic groups/minorities, regardless of the state they live in. Today, human and minority rights have become an important institutionalized international factor of security and stability and a concern of the entire international community, despite the fact that many states still claim that minority policy is their internal problem into which international community has no right to interfere. The affirmation of the rationalist approach to contemporary security implies that the responsibility for guaranteeing security lies not only on individual states and unions but also on the international system as a whole.

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Hrčak ID:

32206

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32206

Publication date:

6.12.1998.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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