Izgradnja moderne države i nacije: Balkanska perspektiva
Modern State And Nation Building: Balkan Perspective

Summary/Abstract: There are two reasons, both of theoretical and practical nature, which renew interest in the topic that not so long ago was almost entirely suppressed, if not even forgotten in political theory. The first one is a general reason, pertaining to change in discursive universe of political theory. ishall define it briefly as centrality of state (national state) in discourse of contemporary political theory; the second reason contextualizes this general starting point and ishall define it as centrality of modern state building in the region of «delayed nations» (the balkans). The general plan of analysis consists of three steps. in the first step, ishall present a general plan of modern state and nation building and indicate basic formative principles (citizenship, nationality, sovereignty) of this fundamental modernization process. The second step shall point to basic characteristics of political dynamics of the balkans. The third one introduces to the debate the term of an unfinished state, which ishall consider as the basic political form of this process in the region.

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