Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

PAVO BARIŠIĆ
Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia /
Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
DEMOCRATISATION OF SOUTHEAST EUROPE
Two decades ago the iron curtain in Europe was torn up and the communism
collapsed. Under the impression of the democratic changes the layers of
the totalitarian regimes started melting. Europe fasted its unification, the world
opened itself to the global interconnecting and netting process. The collapse of
the totalitarian government was probably the loudest and with the most terrible
devastations and conflicts just in the Southeastern part of Europe. Although
some countries from the region already at that time were members of the European
Union, like Greece, and some in the meantime through two enlargement
waves in 2004 and 2007 became full-fledged members, like Slovenia, Romania
and Bulgaria, the most of them are still waiting at the back side of the door.
Some countries are approaching with many difficulties the finale of the lengthiest
negotiating process until now, like Croatia, some are facing many misunderstandings
and barriers in the negotiations, like Turkey, some are waiting too
long for the start of negotiations, like Macedonia, and some are just preparing to
the negotiations, like Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro,
and Serbia. The European Union has in the second decade of the third millennium
as its most complicated task to solve the issue of enlargement in the region
of Southeastern Europe. Looking back on the historical curve of the past two
decades this consideration tries to bring more light to the perspective of the
democratisation and ‘europeanisation’ in Southeastern European area.
DEMOKRATIZACIJA NA JUGOISTOKU EUROPE
Prije dva desetljeća pucala je željezna zavjesa i urušavao se komunizam
u Europi. Talozi totalitarnih režima topili su se pod utjecajem demokratskih
promjena. Europa je ubrzala svoje ujedinjenje, svijet se otvorio prema procesu
globalnoga povezivanja i premrežavanja. Rušenje totalitarne vladavine zacijelo
je bilo najbučnije i uz strahovita ratna razaranja i sukobe upravo u jugoistočnom
i srednjem dijelu Europe. U međuvremenu je učinjen znatan pomak
i napredak u pravcu demokratizacije i stabilizacije. Premda su neke zemlje
već tada bile u Europskoj Uniji, kao Grčka i Italija, neke su u međuvremenu
postale punopravne članice, kao Austrija, Slovenija, Mađarska, Bugarska i
Rumunjska, dobar dio njih još uvijek čeka pred vratima Europske Unije. Neke
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