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Demokratija i protektorat
Democracy and Protectorate

Author(s): Nenad Kecmanović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Nova srpska politička misao
Keywords: democracy; Bosnia and Herzegovina; nationalism; protectorate;

Summary/Abstract: Generally accepting Mill's reservation regarding possibility of polyarchy (de­mocracy) in ethnic complex regions author analyzes – within contex of dissolving of communist world and renaissance of nationalisms – recent his­to­ri­cal events in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the emergence of that state and the pre­sent situation in it. In his analysis he consults leading theoretists in field of poli­ti­cal thought. Assessing that this country has in ten years gone from "bolshevik to­talitarism" to "colonial despotism", author rejects Knaus/Martin's claim that "fo­reigners in Bosnia develop democracy by means of dictatorship" and argues that this kind of thinking is basically wrong and potentially dangerous.

  • Issue Year: 10/2003
  • Issue No: 01+04
  • Page Range: 359-381
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian