The Balkan War in the Light of Authoritative Theory and Unforeseeable Reality

Smatrajući da je neprihvatljiva teza da je aktualni balkanski rat izišao iz svih okvira moderne političke teorije, te da je kao takav pojmovno nedohvatljiva zbrka neobjašnjivih i nepreglednih okolnosti, autor se osvrće na opus Carla Schmitta koji je koncentriran na dva situacijski poticana koda: na odnos politike i prava i odnos politike i rata. Pomoću Schmittovih pojmovnih razlikovanja analizira tri diakrona procesa: raspad jugoslavenske federacije, raspad realnog socijalizma i prestanak hladnog rata.The author believes that one cannot accept the opinion that the Balkan war defies all frameworks of modem politicaJ theories and is thus a conceptually undefinable muddle of inexplicable and unsurveyable circumstances. He resorts to the work of Carl Schmitt which concentrates upon two codes prompted by situations: the relationship of politlcs and law and the relationship of politics and war. With the help of Schmitt\u27s conceptual distinctions he analyzes three diachronical processes: the disintegration of the Yugoslav federation,the disintegration of real socialism, and the end of the cold war