Conference paper

Democracy and the Nation-State

Franjo Zenko ; Institute for History, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

In analyses of the dissolution of the communistic totalitarian system produced by political scientists it is the pessimistic forecasts that prevail concerning the victory of democracy in Eastern, Central, and South-Eastern Europe, including Croatia. Many believe that the roof of all these threats to democracy can be found in "nationalism". In contrast to this postcommunist "ethnonationalism" fatal to democrac, the Western Europe of Maastricht is taking the path of "etatistic nationalism". The discussion on whether postcommunist ethnic nationalism is essentially incompatible with the West European postnational democratic ideal encounters many misunderstandings on both sides.

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Hrčak ID:

112187

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/112187

Publication date:

1.12.1992.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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