Naslov
Exporting the Culture of Pluralism, Non-Discrimination and Tolerance: Long Way of the European Values to the External Borders of the Europe Union

Autori
Petričušić, Antonija

Izvornik
From homework to housework, dossier on Croatia's entry into the EU

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, popularni rad

Godina
2013

Ključne riječi
EU acession; external political socialisation; transfer of culture pluralism; non-niscrimination and tolerance

Sažetak
The European Union enlargement process is often acknowledged as the European Union’s most influential democracy promotion mechanism. Indeed, transition processes in Croatia has had a significant dimension of external involvement that influenced its political and societal transformation, less during the warring years and more in the period following the Homeland War and particularly after 2000. This chapter explores the outcomes of the enlargement process conceptualized as a means of external political socialisation and assesses if the transfer of values promoted by the EU has resulted in their incorporation in the wider society. The chapter concludes that the values of equality and of respect for the rights of persons belonging to minorities, being those the EU has been founded on, have not been (and cannot be) effectively transposed in the short time-span of the Croatian accession process. This, however, implies that the efforts towards socio-cultural change and the enforcement of the politics of reconciliation need to be pursued beyond the enlargement.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Pravo, Sociologija

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