Naslov
Nation-building in Franjo Tuđman’s Political Writings

Autori
Đurašković, Stevo

Izvornik
Politička misao : Croatian political science review (0032-3241) 51 (2014), 5; 58-79

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Franjo Tuđman ; Nation-building ; Croatian National Identity ; National Reconciliation ; Historical and Natural Borders

Sažetak
Detecting the gap in the existing literature of Franjo Tuđman’s political thought, this article comprehensively analyzes Tuđman’s nationalist ideology prior to the 1990s. Using a morphological approach to ideology, the article presents three main clusters of concepts regarding Tuđman’s ideology: the narrative on the nature of humankind as teleological struggle to achieve independent national states ; the narrative of supranational ideologies – such as liberalism and communism – acting as a pure geopolitical means used by the great nations to subjugate small ones ; and finally the narrative of the Croatian thousand-year long struggle to achieve an independent national state. Moreover, the article exposes how Tuđman already by the 1970s created the idea of an all-embracing national movement grounded in the synthesis of abovementioned teleological concept on Croatian history, which would eventually bring about a national reconciliation of Ustaša and the Croatian partisans in a final struggle for the independent state.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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