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Eksterni nationbuilding– teorijska analiza strateškog koncepta
External nationbuilding-Theoretical Analysis of Strategic Concept

Author(s): Sead Turčalo
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Sarajevu
Keywords: nationbuilding; statebuilding; fragilne države; integrativna ideologija

Summary/Abstract: Autor teksta daje pregled koncepata nationbuildinga i statebuildinga iz perspektive eksternih aktera s obzirom na to da je, za razliku od tradicionalnog shvaćanja ovih koncepata kao unutarnjih procesa, njihova savremena recepcija da se radi o procesima izgradnje institucionalnih kapaciteta države i njihovog korištenja za formiranje nacionalnog identiteta kojima rukovodi međunarodna zajednica u fragilnim državama. Autor u radu polazi od teze da je nationbuilding sveobuhvatan koncept čiji je ključni konstitutivni element statebuilding koji bez druga dva elementa integrativne ideologije i integracije društva može imati samo stabilizirajući efekt u fragilnim državama. The author offers a review of concept of nation – building from the perspective of external actors. The traditional understanding regarded nation – building as internal processes, while the modern perception considers it as the processes of the development of the institutional capacities of the state and their use for the creation of a national identity. In most fragile states this process is conducted by the international community. The author begins with the thesis that nationbuilding is an all-encompassing concept whose key constituent element is statebuilding, which can merely have a stabilizing effect if the two other elements – the integrative ideology and the integration of society – are not present.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 5-6
  • Page Range: 112-125
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Bosnian