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Europska politika u vrijeme disolucije jugoslavenske federacije
European Politics At The Time Of The Dissolution Of The Yugoslav Federation

Author(s): Sandro Knezović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: European Union; sovereignity; security policy; international recognition;

Summary/Abstract: The turmoils in international relations following the fall of the Berlin wall represented a serious challenge for the overall concept of European political unity. In its first international assignment outside the context of the Cold war, traditional national interests and animosities surfaced, and they demonstrated rather precisely all the complexity of the project promulgated by the Maastricht Agreement. At the time there was no common European approach to the solution of the crisis on the territory of the former Yugoslavia and no consent regarding the key issues, such as the recognition of the former Yugoslav republics as sovereign entities i.e. defining the criteria for their recognition. The paper focuses on this very specificity of the new approach to this problem, since it has increasingly been a subject of discretionary political decisions rather than the issue of international law in the traditional sense of meeting certain criteria for state recognition

  • Issue Year: XLIII/2006
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 109-132
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Croatian