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Ivo Pilar and Contemporary Croatian Geopolitics
Jure KRIŠTO
; Hrvatski institut za povijest, Zagreb
Sažetak
Ivo Pilar researched geopolitics on the eve of and during World War I,
when the fate of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was uncertain, including
the fate of the “Croatian states”. He analysed the geographical position of
the three individual Croatian states: Slavonia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia and
Herzegovina, pointing out the reasons that conditioned their separation. He
also commented on the significance of neighbouring countries in the
history of Croatians and their policies. He devoted much attention to the
Serbians, the Serbian Orthodox Church and their Great Serbia project.
Furthermore, he paid due attention to the Italians and their collaboration
with Serbia against Croatian interests. Pilar attempted to indicate to the political circles of the Monarchy that it
is necessary to constitute a Croatian state on its South, a state that would
unite the traditional Croatian states, although he never advocated full
sovereignty of this new political component. In other words, he believed in
the wisdom of Croatian politicians throughout history, who always made
good use of their stronger neighbours to protect their own interests. Pilar
wanted to point out the necessity of such a political development if the
Monarchy was to be preserved.
Some of Pilar’s analyses are useful even today, although many were
conditioned by his ideological beliefs or the surrounding historical
circumstances, thus rendering the same inapplicable today. Nevertheless,
Pilar can be considered the father of geopolitical studies in Croatia, at least
to the extent that he was the first to analyse the political significance of the
status of the Croatian states and their neighbouring countries.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
67580
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Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2006.
Posjeta: 3.692 *