Original scientific paper
IDENTITY AND THE DIVERGENCE OF DISCOURSES IN CROATIA AND EUROPE
Siniša Rodin
Abstract
This paper explores the proposition that public discourse about the European
Union in Croatia is not European, but national. The ‘nationalness’ of this discourse
about Europe leads to divergent constructions of Croatian and European identity, and
this, in turn, makes inclusion in the EU’s distributive mechanisms more difficult. The first
part of the paper highlights the two discourses that exist in Europe – European and
national. The second part describes how Croatian and European public discourse about
the European Union diverge, and what the consequences of this divergence are. In the
third part, reasons contributing to this divergence are offered, and the dangers of such a
development for Croatia’s European future are indicated.
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Hrčak ID:
28560
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Publication date:
2.11.2007.
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