CENTAR, PERIFERIJA I REGIONALIZAM: "TVRDA" EUROPSKA POSTMODERNA
CENTER, PERIPHERY AND REGIONALlSM: A "HARD" EUROPEAN POSTMODERNITY

Summary/Abstract: Regionalism is a new form of territorial autonomy in some western european countries. It manifests rather long lasting tension in relations between center and periphery, this time within nation-state. However, but, regionalism does not replicate the goals and strength of the nationalistic movements, whereas it contributes to the complexity of the modern nation-state. The range of actual regional autonomies exceeds that of local and functional autonomy, but reaches shorter from ethno-nationalism and federation. Thus regionalism supplements the "postmodern" nation-state. The latter becomes more heterogeneous from the former, modern (unitarian, federal, and consociational) nation-state. Hence, despite new challenges coming from internal and external processes of (dis)integration, the nation-state still represents the strongest arrangement of political action and cultural identity of (macro) society.

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