Original scientific paper

GLOBAL CHANGES AND NEW PARADIGMS OF WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Mislav Kukoč ; Institute for Applied Social Research, Zagreb

Abstract

The author analyses the new theoretical paradigms attempting to
answer the following question: how does the fall of communism
affect the future of the world? lt is concluded in the paper that neither
approach in itself contains the key to the solution of the riddie
of world history, but neither of the approaches could be said to be
mistaken or completely wrong. These paradigms indicate, in a
way, the possible directions of Croatia's strategic development:
will it remain a part of the post-communist turbu lent Balkans and
continue to be regarded by authors such as Kaplan and Fukuyama
as part of the so-called Third World, or will it choose economic,
industrial and political modernization and thus leave the uncertain
and chaotic post-communist reality to join the prosperous "caravan"
nearing the liberal "end of history"?

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Hrčak ID:

32819

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/32819

Publication date:

1.1.1995.

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