Demokracija i nacionalizam - jedinstvo ili protuslovlje?
Democracy and Nationalism - Unity or Contradiction?

Summary/Abstract: In Eastern Europe democracy has only one, in most cases certainly very small and weak chance, namely as a national democracy, as democracy in nation states with a more or less explicitly pronounced raison d’état. A nation state is thought of exclusively as an ethnocracy, as self-determination of the people in an ethnic sense, as the rule of the nation (ethnos) over itself. The East cannot imitate the Western history of state nationalism and of the development of Western democracy; it must create democracy and the state of law out of its own experiences and historical presuppositions. The creation of a nation state through ethno-nationalism is clearly a historical presupposition for the coming into being of stable states, which is an inavoidable condition for the development of economic and cultural aspects of civic society as well as of democratic structures.

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