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Balkanski rat u svjetlu mjerodavne teorije i nepredvidive realnosti
The Balkan War in the Light of Authoritative Theory and Unforeseeable Reality

Author(s): Davor Rodin
Subject(s): Political Theory, Politics and law, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Balkan War; political theory; politics and law; politics and war; Carl Schmitt;

Summary/Abstract: The author believes that one cannot accept the opinion that the Balkan war defies all frameworks of modern political theories and is thus a conceptually undefinable muddle of inexplicable and unsurveyable circumstances. He resorts to the work of Carl Schmitt which concentrates upon two codes prompted by situations: the relationship of politics and law and the relationship of politics and war. With the help of Schmitt’s conceptual distinctions he analyzes three diachronical processes: the disingration of the Yugoslav federation, the disintegration real socialism, and the end of the cold war.

  • Issue Year: XXX/1993
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 160-172
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Croatian