Problemi internacionalizacije malih država na primjeru Jugoslavije i Austrije
Problems of the Internationalization of Small Countries Exemplified by Yugoslavia and Austria

Summary/Abstract: It is difficult to compare the economic and social structures of Yugoslavia and Austria because of 1) the difference in the degrees of industrial development achieved; 2) the types of socio¬-economic relationships; 3) the difference in the size of territories and number of inhabitants; 4) the structure of Industrial production and the degree of their inclusion in international economic relationships. Economic relationships and the development of small countries take place In an ambiance of international economic relationships characterized by two basic phases: 1) postwar economic development modelled, in the case of most bourgeois states, on the example of the U.S.A. A feature of this phase is the internationalization of commercial relationships. 2) The second phase begins at the start of the 1970s when the economic growth of the most powerful capitalist countries undergoes decline and stagnation. World trade stagnates but there occurs an internationalization of production and investment. This in turn is responsible for the mutual dependence of national economies and an increased international division of labour. In such circumstances small countries are compelled to adapt their own economies to the international division of labour while maintaining their political independence. Smaller industrialized countries in Europe were fairly successful in that adaptation thanks to the flexibility of their economies. In that sense Austria is pointed out as a positive example. The inner political structure of such states Is being adapted to the pressures of economic trends in the world thanks to the efficient cooperation of representative bodies of the employed, the employers, and the state. The system of neocorporativism, of social partnership, on the other hand, excludes the public from decision-making processes in a significant measure, limits social participation and fails to "identify" new areas of conflict within society. Instruments from the sixties cannot longer be successfully applied to world recession. Potentials of growth have to be discovered in one’s own creative possibilities and not only through an imitation of those that are already "developed".

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