%0 Journal Article
%T Nation-building in Franjo Tu£¿man¡¯s Political Writings
%A £¿ura£¿kovi£¿
%A Stevo
%J -
%D 2014
%X Sa£¿etak Detecting the gap in the existing literature of Franjo Tu£¿man¡¯s political thought, this article comprehensively analyzes Tu£¿man¡¯s nationalist ideology prior to the 1990s. Using a morphological approach to ideology, the article presents three main clusters of concepts regarding Tu£¿man¡¯s ideology: the narrative on the nature of humankind as teleological struggle to achieve independent national states; the narrative of supranational ideologies ¨C such as liberalism and communism ¨C acting as a pure geopolitical means used by the great nations to subjugate small ones; and finally the narrative of the Croatian thousand-year long struggle to achieve an independent national state. Moreover, the article exposes how Tu£¿man already by the 1970s created the idea of an all-embracing national movement grounded in the synthesis of abovementioned teleological concept on Croatian history, which would eventually bring about a national reconciliation of Usta£¿a and the Croatian partisans in a final struggle for the independent state
%K Franjo Tu£¿man
%K Nation-building
%K Croatian National Identity
%K National Reconciliation
%K Historical and Natural Borders
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