Relationalist View on the Dissolution of Former Yugoslavia and Emergent New States

Igor Janev

doi:10.22158/ape.v3n2p35

Abstract

Times After a logic-based foundation of Dialectic Relationism, as a holistic doctrine and a comprehensive systemic-dialectic methodology, in which the relations between the elements (units) constituting a system play the dominant role in its behavior, and even determine the very existence of the elements (units), we demonstrate its applicability to the political arena of international interactions of states and, in particular, to the dissolution of complex state entities and the emergence of new states. Then, we examine in more detail the processes leading to the dissolution of Former Yugoslavia and the emergence of new states following its break up. We elucidate the role of both internal and external factors in the dissolussion process and the role of international relations and environment in the political recognition of the new states. This Relationism concept provides a general framework for description and understanding of socio-political processes and regimes in individual states and international system as a whole.

Highlights

Main Current studies of international political relations generally follow two mainstream contending doctrines, the realism and liberalism, each of which is routed in the classical works of Thucidides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinosa and Locke, Kant, Fichte, Rousseau, respectively
In the first part of this chapter we have laid down the historical background and the philosophical basis of a new doctrine, which we call Dialectic Relationism according to which the relations between the elements in a system play the dominant role in the system, determine its properties, behavior and are even the cause for the element’s existence in the system
While at the beginning of its existence (1950s and 1960s) the enthusiasm of building a new socialist country on the territory of war devastated old Kingdom of Yugoslavia kept the unity of the state strong, the inauguration of the democratization process and the “selfgovernment” socialist model in the 1960s resulted in clear manifestation of the latent inter-ethnic and inter-republic tensions

Summary

Introduction

Main Current studies of international political relations generally follow two mainstream contending doctrines, the realism and liberalism, each of which is routed in the classical works of Thucidides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinosa and Locke, Kant, Fichte, Rousseau, respectively. SFRY was established in 1945 as successor of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (under the name Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia, which was changed to SFRY in 1963), constituted of six republics (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro) with different historical, cultural, religious backgrounds and ethnic compositions.

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