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.... 2012 Croatian Foreign Policy in the Context of European Union Membership Vesna Pusi´c Croatian citizens voted “yes” for Croatian membership in the European Union on the referendum held on 22 January 2012. Following the ratifica- tion...

... Stracevic’s “Greater Croatia” ideal and therefore an opponent of the Yugoslav principle. It is fair to say that most supporters of a Greater Croatia were pleased with the territorial configuration of the new state, since its borders spread considerably further than those of the hitherto Croatian...

... in advancing social, demo- cratic, institutional, and economic reforms at home and pursuing the goal of joining the Euro-Atlantic community. The strategic objectives of our foreign policy are to join the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- zation. The Croatian government is working...

... the government’s cooperation with the tribunal, this issue forming the core of the political agenda. At that time, many Croatian citizens found it hard to accept that somebody considered a war hero for having fought a defensive war could be suspected of committing war crimes. Since 2000, Croatia has been...

... and parliaments tiresomely proclaim promises and express pique about progress toward peace and prosperity by the new Balkan repub- lics, but the region remains mired in its worsening historical imagery as the “despair of tidy minds.”1 The pieces of the former Yugoslavia — from the Serbo-­Croatian word...

... affairs to hire early on a competent public affairs agency. In the chapter concerning Croatia, the author details the relationship of Franjo Tudj- man with the immigrant Croatian societies in the United States. Tudjman had been a leading partisan fi gure during World War II but had gradually...

..., the author details the relationship of Franjo Tudj- man with the immigrant Croatian societies in the United States. Tudjman had been a leading partisan fi gure during World War II but had gradually drifted into a Croatian nationalism fi xation during the years of Tito, so much so that at one time he had...

... affairs agency. In the chapter concerning Croatia, the author details the relationship of Franjo Tudj- man with the immigrant Croatian societies in the United States. Tudjman had been a leading partisan fi gure during World War II but had gradually drifted into a Croatian nationalism fi xation...

.... The first Yugoslavia (1918–41) had solid support in the West. Croatian separatist activities in the 1920s and 1930s were generally frowned upon. In World War II, the Axis powers destroyed the country, and in Croatia a pro-Axis movement created the so-called...

... demonstrations with a call for a general strike broke out in Zagreb. This time, however, Tito himself responded with extraordinary harshness. In early December, at the twenty-first session of the presidium of the League of Yugoslav Communists, the entire leadership of the Croatian Republic resigned under...

... demonstrations with a call for a general strike broke out in Zagreb. This time, however, Tito himself responded with extraordinary harshness. In early December, at the twenty-first session of the presidium of the League of Yugoslav Communists, the entire leadership of the Croatian Republic resigned under...

... that Milosevic is responsible for the dismemberment of Yugoslavia, he just tells us so again and again. One would think that the Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian Muslim, Macedonian, and Kosovo Albanian secessionists and U.S./North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

... of Yugoslavia, he just tells us so again and again. One would think that the Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian Muslim, Macedonian, and Kosovo Albanian secessionists and U.S./North Atlantic Treaty Organization interventionists might have had something to do...

... oppressed none, and was easily accepted as a democratic entity. Croatia, however, had large numbers of Serbs who, at the invitation of the Aus- trian emperor, had settled in the border regions centuries earlier to help repel Turkish inroads. To gain recognition, the newly established Croatian...

.... To gain recognition, the newly established Croatian government made guaran- tees concerning their safety and place in society that were in accord with EC standards. Once recognition was achieved, not surprisingly, those guarantees disappeared. Those European diplomats who dealt with the Yugoslav...

..., therefore oppressed none, and was easily accepted as a democratic entity. Croatia, however, had large numbers of Serbs who, at the invitation of the Aus- trian emperor, had settled in the border regions centuries earlier to help repel Turkish inroads. To gain recognition, the newly established Croatian...

... army that it otherwise would have had to squeeze out of a desperate population.2 The one quality that Bosniak, Serbian, and Croatian entities within Bosnia have shared has been a propensity for corruption. That propensity is further fueled...

..., for example, seeking passengers on cross-­border trips adver- tise their Croatian passports — obtained on the basis of Croatian ethnicity or birth in what is now Croatian territory. Entrepreneur-­politician Bogoljub Karic escaped prosecution on corruption charges in Serbia by obtaining a passport from...

..., Bosnian, and Croatian leaders had reached an agree- ment that Bosnia should be divided into three constituent units. This was done in Lisbon in February 1992, facilitated by the European Community’s organization, the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (ICFY). But after a visit...

... to the violent struggles between Mus- lim and Croatian forces in Bosnia. Some of the worst fighting — and accom- panying atrocities — occurred on that leg of the triangular civil war.16 The extensive bloodshed, and the destruction of the historic bridge in the bitterly divided city of Mostar, was one...