TESTIRAJUĆI TEORIJE ETNIČKOG SUKOBA: OCCAMOVA OŠTRICA I POČETAK RATA U HRVATSKOJ
TESTING THE THEORIES OF ETHNIC CONFLICT: OCCAM'S RAZOR AND THE CASE OF CROATIA

Summary/Abstract: Ethnic conflicts in Croatia 1990-91- the prelude to the full scale war- are analysed within four different theoretical perspectives; the diffusion model, the ethnocultural model, the reactive ethnicity model, and the competition model are discussed. Result ssuggest that only the last one, portreyed as the rational choice approach to (ethnic) solidarity formation and collective action, succedes in explaining the events in question. Unfalsifiability, "incompleteness", and empirical falsification represent, successively, the seriousflaws in other models. Finally, some social policy implications of the rational choice approach to ethnicity are sketched.

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