Nationalism in Croatian Transition to Democracy: Between Structural Conditionality and the Impact of Legacy of History and Political Culture

Sažetak Nationalism has marked the democratic transition of many post-communistsocieties, including Croatia. It showed its liberal character by fostering democratic change and achieving national independence, but it also manifested itself as exclusive ethnocentrism, which considerably slowed down the democratization process and imposed itself as its main characteristic. The author challenges the view that ethnocentrism as…

Perspektive jačanja suradnje NATO-a i Europske unije u kontekstu regionalne i globalne sigurnosti

Sažetak Euroatlantska zajednica se suočava s novim izazovima – u trenutku kada se SAD sve više okreću području Azije i Pacifika, europske države će morati preuzeti znatno više odgovornosti u osiguranju europske sigurnosti. S obzirom da će se zaokret u obrambenoj politici SAD-a odraziti na transatlantske i euroatlantske odnose, te čak dovesti do „repozicioniranja“ SAD-a…

Davutoğlu: Thinking Depth and Global Political Activism as New Grand Strategy

Sažetak This paper is an analytical synopsis of Ahmet Davutoğlu’s pro-civilizationalactivism, an essay on this globally recognized diplomat and expert in the fieldof international relations, history of political thought and political philosophy.Davutoğlu is an author of the strategic doctrine of new Turkey as global actorwith neo-Ottomanist Geist. It shows his multidimensional approach to civilizations and…

Transmission of traumatic experiences in the families of war survivors from Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sažetak This paper explores the process of transmitting war experiences from parents to children in the contemporary Bosnian context. It is informed by studies in psychoanalysis and cultural anthropology. Using in-depth interviews with families, family trees and children’s drawings, I try to understand why and how parents communicate their traumatic memories to their children, and…

Gergana Noutcheva: European Foreign Policy and the Challenges of Balkan Accession: Conditionality, Legitimacy and Compliance

Sažetak In this book Gergana Noutcheva aims to increase knowledge on the impact of EU policy in its neighboring countries. The author is an associate professor in International Relations and European Foreign Policy at the University of Maastricht. Her research focuses on the EU enlargement and neighborhood policy, in particular the impact of the EU…

Ksenija Cvetković-Sander: Sprachpolitik und nationale Identität im sozialistischen Jugoslawien (1945-1991): Serbokroatisch, Albanisch, Makedonisch und Slowenisch

Sažetak Knjiga Ksenije Cvetković-Sander na sustavan i precizan način donosi historiografsku analizu jezične politike i jezične problematike u Drugoj Jugoslaviji, s posebnim naglaskom na hrvatsko-srpskim jezičnim odnosima.