Zapadnoevropska civilizacija na Balkanu
West-European Civilization in the Balkans

Summary/Abstract: Starting from new reactualization of Huntington’s work The Clash of Civilizations as a paradigm for real understanding of global international relations, in first part of the article theoretical hypothesis of Fukuyama’s and Bzezinski’s project, i.e. the models of unipolar or bipolar picture of the world, as well as radical ideas of sovereignty and general decadence are exposed. Although, however, the author agrees with Huntington about the justification and the central role of the category of civilization, he criticizes Huntington’s view of the border of „Europe“ i.e. its reduction to the borders of „the West“, an act that without historical arguments excludes from Europe and European values all orthodox countries. Rethinking essence and determining elements of „the Western“ civilization (sovereignty, human rights, division of power, representative government, market economy), the author exposes their development and presence in non-western societies.

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