The Destruction of Yugoslavia

If my statement about the first Yugoslavia being in many ways a non-synchronized and contradictory state is correct, what then can be said about the second Yugoslavia that endeavored, by keeping silent, to fill in the fatal fissure opened in Jasenovac and other places of annihilation of Serbs in the so-called Independent State of Croatia during the Second World War? For that reason, the former intermediator of the international community in Yugoslav conflicts, Lord Carrington, has repeatedly stated that with its new Constitution, Croatia rekindled the conflict with the Serbs. The essay will begin by discussing discuss the paralization to the breaking-up of the state, before moving to a discussion of the wars between secessionists and antisecessionists. We will also examine the role of the Yugoslav Army, and Western triumphalism regarding the Yugoslav tragedy

A small country versus the global power

In the first, general part the author starts from the assumption that a small country like FR Yugoslavia cannot realistically expect equality and equal rights in its relations with the USA. Therefore it should be very pragmatic in approaching U.S. However, it does not follow from that that it has no chance whatsoever to stand openly and decisively for its own national-state interests and rights while at the same time it is trying to harmonize them with the interests and rights of the most powerful country. The author also claims that domestic extreme pragmatists underestimate the danger of a principles reaction of a great part of their own people when they are ready to give in to every and any caprice of U.S His conclusion is that Greece vs. U.S. should be the best example for FRY.vs.U.S. Between FRY and the USA there are often serious misunderstandings, one of the reasons being essential differences in their respective conceptions and practices of the relationships between nation(ality), religion, and state. The last two portions of the text are devoted to the analysis of those misunderstandings and differences

On political and philosophical identity: From dissident Marxist to revolutionary democrat

In this paper the author seeks to shed light on the political and philosophical context of the second half of 20th century in which he intellectually came of age. In his intellectual and political development the author distinguishes three main phases. He characterizes the first phase of his development as Praxis, revisionist, dissident Marxism and reformist communism. The second phase was post-Marxism and post-communism, while in the last decade of the 20th century the author defines his theoretical views as non-Marxist. The author defines his latest philosophical-political standpoint as social democratic which, after his own self-understanding, comes closest to West European social democracy.

Systemkrise in Jugoslawien

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