Indirect Inclusion of National Parliaments in the European Lawmaking Process: Croatian Parliament Priorities in European Affairs

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The Treaty of Lisbon vested the national parliaments of EU Member States with the possibility of direct participation in the European legislative process, thus attempting to overcome the Union’s democratic deficit. Earlier national parliaments only disposed with the possibility of indirect involvement in the EU affairs, through the scrutiny of governmental actions in the EU institutions...

“I know that I don't know anything“: Political Competences and Political Participation among Zagreb Youth

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Researchers have always found young people interesting as an indicator of the state of a society. Attitudes, values, competences and behavior of young people are considered a sort of litmus paper that can adequately explained wider social tendencies of a given society. This paper analyzes political competencies and political participation of Zagreb youth. Political competencies and political participation are two characteristics of quality of functioning...

A Geopolitical Background of “Istrianism“: An Analysis of Istrian Regional Identification

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This paper examines the background of regional affiliation in Istria, more exactly, the Istria County in the last twenty years. Analysis of the data from three consecutive censuses (1991, 2001 and 2011), as well as analysis of results from local elections in period 1993 -2013, demonstrated three facts related to regional identity affiliation in Istria...

Foreign Policy Analysis: Montenegrin-Arab Relations

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This paper presents a conceptual analysis of the main external and internal determinants of foreign policy, basic theoretical approaches to foreign policy decision-making with regard to the pros and cons approach based on rational choice, which suggests establishing causality between the decision and the defined aim. In this context, the focus of this paper is on relations between foreign policy decision of Montenegro...