Croatian Politics in an International Context

Autor smatra da su prioriteti hrvatske vanjske politike uspostava trajnog mira i reintegracija okupiranih hrvatskih teritorija. Međunarodna zajednica je svoju suradnju u rješavanju prioritetnih hrvatskih problema uvjetovala nizom zahtjeva: poštivanjem ljudskih i demokratskih prava, osobito prava manjina, te poštivanjem integriteta drugih država. Osnovni je problem međunarodne zajednice što je nakon kraja bipolarnosti ostala bez koncepta rješavanja sukoba koji su izbili u postkomunističkim zemljama. U Hrvatskoj je rat predugo krivo promatran kao građanski rat. Kontroverzni problem hrvatske politike autor vidi u zahtjevu za dosljednom demokratizacijom, koju je teško realizirati u uvjetima rata, te u shvaćanju pune demokracije kao preduveta mirne reintegracije okupiranih hrvatskih područja.The author considers Croatia\u27s priority in foreign affairs to be the establishment of peace and reintegration of occupied Croatian territory. The international community lent its support to solving Croatia\u27s problems only with certain conditions attached: respect for human and democratic rights, esp. the right of minorities; and respect for the integrity of other countries. The basic problem faced by the international community is that since the end of the east-west polar orientations, there is no concept for solving conflicts that have erupted in post-communist countries. In Croatia the war was viewed (wrongly) as a civil war. The controversy in the Croatian policy, as seen by the author, is in the requirement for absolute adherence to democratic principles, which is difficult to realize in times of war, and in the acceptance of complete democracy as a precondition to peaceful reintegration of occupied Croatian territory