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Autoritarni kontekst eskalacije jugoslovenske krize devedesetih
The Authoritarian Context of Escalation of Yugoslav Crisis in the 90-tis

Author(s): Slobodan M. Miladinović
Subject(s): History
Published by: Nova srpska politička misao
Keywords: authoritarity; nationalism; social values; power elites; Yugoslav state disintegration;

Summary/Abstract: The main attitude of this paper is that authoritarity is one of the most important subjective (value) components which contributed to escalation of Yugoslav crisis of ninetieths. The paper is based on survey data research presents of authoritarian value orientations in power elites in Serbia and Croatia before the Yugoslav state disintegration. Elites are watched as generator and main distributor of authoritarian value system and Yugoslav crisis. It main motives in this process are to protect their own positions of power and privilege. Authoritarian value orientation is considered as one of instruments by which elites tend to make control over totality of social relations and to realize their own particular interests. The result is permanent generating of conflicts particularly conflicts between nations.

  • Issue Year: 13/2006
  • Issue No: 01+04
  • Page Range: 207-235
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Serbian