A CLOSED CIRCLE OF MODERNIZATION?: FROM TOMAŠIĆ TO HUNTINGTON Cover Image

ZATVOREN KRUG MODERNIZACIJE?: OD TOMAŠIĆA DO HUNTINGTONA
A CLOSED CIRCLE OF MODERNIZATION?: FROM TOMAŠIĆ TO HUNTINGTON

Author(s): Vjeran Katunarić
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Political history, Social history
Published by: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
Keywords: Political modernization; Dinko Tomašić; Huntington;

Summary/Abstract: Setting aside the questionable anthropogeographic theoretical outsets and consideration of differences between the highlands-authoritarian and lowlands-peacemaking models, the author of the article concentrates on Tomašlč's character analysis of the ruling elites of Balkan societies and his understanding of the relations of internal and external factors in preserving these elites. Due to the latter, Tomašić's views can live up to contemporary theories and research of determinants of political modernization. According to Tomašić, the Balkan regime of force has managed to survive due to involvement of super-powers in local conflicts. Thus, in 1946 the regime placed its only hope in a complete turnabout of the external factor - in the possibility of a global process of disarmament and economic development.

  • Issue Year: 2/1993
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 955-961
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Croatian