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Crisis of the Croatian Second Republic (1990-1999): Transition to Totalitarianism or to Democracy?

Three sets of problems are set forth in detail. These sets outline the most significant totalitarian features of Croatian political and social life. The first set is the ideological project of national sovereignty, defined by the platform od the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). The second set relates to the systematic position of the HDZ's president as head of state. The third deals with HDZ's policy towards the neighbouring state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This anakysis shows the central problem of Croatian political cicumstances lies in the inability of HDZ to structure the public and political space as a state, and social field as cicil society. Thus, HDZ generates totalitarian tendencies in today's Croatian state. However, these are not the dominant features of Craoatian political and social regime, since HDZ is not ideologically and politically powerfull to shape the Croatian state and society on its own. The second Croatian republic has not become a totalitarian community, but an authoritarian state with marked totalitarian features, but also with an increasingly more pronounced democratic and liberal potential.

Croatian State; Authoritarian State; Totalitarian State; Sovereignty

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