Next Steps in Croatia's Transition Process: Problems and PossibilitiesSrđan Dvornik, Christophe Solioz Nomos, 2007 - 157 pages In this study, leading policy-oriented scholars and practitioners from the cities of Zagreb and Split in Croatia draw on years of experience to critically assess the transition process in post-independence Croatia. With wide-ranging contributions, the book analyzes how the interpretation of national sovereignty has evolved in this post-communist transition. It also investigates the prospects for civil-social engagement in a future without civil society, and discusses the pervasive effects of external assistance as well as the considerable challenges Croatia's economy faces. Above all, the book notes the need for changes in the mindset of entrepreneurs and society in general. Arguing for a more nuanced understanding of Croatia, and considering the "ownership" of initiatives as a key to their success, the book offers insights into the problems emerging at this juncture. |
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... social reality might practically gain such a level of autonomy that they could become the origin of opposition and actual contestation . The second was a reaction against the systematic attempts to make the whole of the network of social ...
... social reality might practically gain such a level of autonomy that they could become the origin of opposition and actual contestation . The second was a reaction against the systematic attempts to make the whole of the network of social ...
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... social activism set in when the autonomous non - governmental associations , for the first time , became directly active and effectively engaged in politics , i.e. , in the pre - electoral campaign , with the goal of the broadest ...
... social activism set in when the autonomous non - governmental associations , for the first time , became directly active and effectively engaged in politics , i.e. , in the pre - electoral campaign , with the goal of the broadest ...
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... social development take the path of making social life objectively more complex in these regions , or is its simplification and ho- mogenisation a more likely outcome ? These and similar questions can be reduced to one basic question ...
... social development take the path of making social life objectively more complex in these regions , or is its simplification and ho- mogenisation a more likely outcome ? These and similar questions can be reduced to one basic question ...
Contents
Contents | 9 |
The Paradigm Shift in the Transitional Conception | 17 |
Sovereignty in the context of Yugoslavia | 26 |
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