NACIJA: NACIONALISTIČKA ILI GRAĐANSKA ILI POSTNACIONALNA KONSTELACIJA?
NATION: NATIONALIST OR CIVIL OR POST-NATIONAL CONSTELLATION?

Author(s): Srđan Vrcan
Subject(s): Politics, Sociology, Nationalism Studies, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: CEDET Centar za demokratsku tranziciju
Keywords: nation; nationalism; ethnocentrism; liberal nationalism; civil nation; constitutional patriotism; state; democracy.
Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the problem of nationalism, and raises the question of the possibility of turning from authoritarian ethno-nationalism to liberal nationalism. In the former Yugoslavia, this possibility did not prove to be realistic in the 1990s, because all dominant nationalisms were overwhelmed by the idea of ​​a national state, as evidenced by the political practice of some liberals, which moved within the ruling nationalist paradigm. Even today, the matrix of nationalism is not being questioned, but the possibility of switching from a hard to a soft version of nationalism is opening up, after the hard version has achieved some of its strategic goals or was defeated from the outside. A civil nation is possible to the extent that the modern state can be sustainably based on integration, legitimization and mobilization on the so-called constitutional patriotism. A step towards a civil nation is desirable, but under the given assumptions it is not democratically feasible.

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