Globalization and National Identity:
Lessons we did not learn from the crises
in Southeast Europe*

Miroslav Tuğman

University of Zagreb, Croatia

 

* Paper prepared for Round Table on "Intelligence and national security at the beginning of the 21st Century", Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 27-28, 2000.

NOTES

1 Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Wesley Clark: "Lessons of Kosovo", the American Enterprise Institute, August 31, 1999.

2 M. Tuğman: "The First Five Years of the Croatian Intelligence Service: 1993-1998", National Security and the Future 2(1)2000, pp. 47-74.

3 "After a century of war that saw the demise of ancient empires and the victory of democracy and market economies over Nazi and Communist totalitarianisms.." (Robert Gates "Security Issues in the 21st Century: An Intelligence Perspective", National Security and the Future 2(1) 2000, pp. 9-11). These evaluations only confirm the changes, they do not provide insight into why they occurred.

4 F. Tuğman: "The Process of Democratic Transition in the South-Eastern Europe", 11th International Conference on Policy and Strategy, Institute for Foreign Relations "Franz Josef Strauss - Symposium", Munich, November 18-20, 1990.

5 Executive order 13107, "Implementation of Human Rights Treaties," December 10, 1998.

6 National refers to a nation or a country in its entirety, " pertaining to a nation or country, esp. as a whole; affecting or shared by the whole nation".) New SOED. Nation can even mean land or kingdom, as in United Nations.

7 David Owen, The Wall Street Journal, September 26, 2000.

8 Carl Bildt: "To Prepare for Peace - Towards Self-Sustaining Stability in the Balkans", September, 2000.

9 Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University, October 11, 2000.