Međunarodni kontekst hrvatske politike
Croatian Politics in an International Context

Summary/Abstract: The author considers Croatia’s priority in foreign affairs to be the establishment of peace and reintegration of occupied Croatian territory. The international community lent its support to solving Croatia’s problems only with certain conditions attached: respect for human and democratic rights, esp. the rights of minorities; and respect for the integrity of other countries. The basic problem faced by the international community is that since the end of the east-west polar orientations, there is no concept for solving the conflicts that have erupted in post-communist countries. In Croatia the war was viewed (wrongly) as a civil war. The controversy in the Croatian policy, as seen by the author, is in the requirement for absolute adherence to democratic principles, which is difficult to realize in times of war, and in the acceptance of complete democracy as a precondition to peaceful reintegration of occupied Croatian territory.

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