Liberal Democracy and War

Autor iznosi tezu Carla Schmitta da je građanski rat bit liberalne demokracije. Određenje političkoga iz odnosa prijatelj-neprijatelj bilo je egzistancijalističko radikaliziranje i aktualiziranje Hobbesova načela o ratu sviju protiv svih. Za tako određeno ustrojstvo liberalno-demokratskog društva i države važi da je rat između građana jedne države kao i rat među državama podjednako neizbježan kao i neraspoloživ. Poslijeratna iskustva s evropskim krizama govore da su sve one bile riješene uz pomoć sekundarnih sredstava. Međutim, nakon završetka hladnog rata mnogo hvaljena sekundarna sredstva više ne djeluju i to zato što više ne stoje pod komandom prešutnog političkog konsenzusa evropskih država, što se potvrđuje i u prijekom slučaju balkanskog rata.The author expounds Carl Schmitt\u27s proposition that civil war is the essence of liberal democracy. The relationship friend-foe is the basis of Schmitt\u27s definition of the concept of the political. In this way Schmitt has existentialistically radicalized and actualized Hobbes\u27 principle of the war waged by everybody against everybody. If the set-up of liberal democratic society is defined in this way it follows that war between citizens of one state and war between states are equally inevitable as they are uncontrolable. Postwar experience with earlier European crises shows that they were all solved by secondary means. With the ending of the cold war, however, the much praised secondary means do not function any longer. The reason is that they are no more controlled by the tacit political consensus between European countries which is also directly demonstrated by the current war in the Balkans