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This paper analyzes the theory of Islam as a religion that could have formed a rationalistic civilization, based on scientific progress, individualism and democracy. One of the representative studies on this topic is the work of Mustafa Akyol Reopening of Muslim Minds, in which the author uses the method of counterfactual analysis, posing the fundamental question: what would Islamic civilization look like if in the Sunni majority had not prevailed Ash’ari theology, but rationalistic, Mu’tazili theology? Although it could be said that the author of this study does not err when he concludes that Ash’ari occasionalism stopped the development of science in Islam, he nevertheless errs when he claims that the doctrines of voluntarism, predestination, and uncreatedness of the Qur’an, were generators of injustice in Islamic society. In this paper we tried to analyze the metaphysical foundations of these doctrines, re-examine the validity of the hypothesis about their harmfulness, and re-examine whether the observed harmful effects come from Islamic tradition or from the more recent attempts of modernization of Islam.

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Political parties are a necessary component of democratic systems. In the paper, the author defines the concept and basic elements of the concept of political parties, keeping in mind the political and public legal dimension. The paper analyzes five basic elements that classical and more modern authors considered when defining political parties. These are: ideology, expression of interests of social groups, realization of state (national) interest, nomination of candidates in elections for public-political positions, exercise of power and permanence. During the discussion, the change of the political party, and therefore the entire political scene with the changes that took place in society through the development of the economy, consumer society and mass media, were taken into account. Thus, certain elements that classical theorists of political parties considered the essence of former parties, such as ideology and representation of the interests of certain social groups, became more symbolic and easily changeable. The paper therefore gives one definition containing the necessary, constitutive elements. Hence, political parties are defined as permanent (permanent) organizations that, by nominating candidates in elections, enable the exercise of political power and the implementation of certain policies that are to be implemented through legally binding decisions and norms.

After the Second World War, Europe faced the question of what kind of political future to choose. Exactly five years after the end of the war, Robert Schuman proposed a declaration that opened the way for European integration: the European Community, later renamed the European Union, was created. This paper presents the circumstances of the creation of the Schuman Declaration and the vision that led him and other founding fathers to the realization of a completely new way of connecting European states. Three of the founding fathers of the European Community, Robert Schuman, Konrad Adenauer and Alcide de Gasperi, were devout Christians. In the paper, we show their understanding of the relationship between democracy, European integration and Christianity. According to Schuman, European institutions need a spirit, Europe needs a soul. What does this mean and how is it that only a few of the later European political leaders paid attention to this aspect? The last part of the article regards the efforts of Pope Francis to make Europe a place of peace and economic development, and furthermore, to strengthen the essence of its identity, encourage creativity and recognize its responsibility to its own nations and citizens, as well as responsibility to others in a globally connected world. The series of speeches by Pope Francis on Europe, including in the European Parliament, shows his closeness to the vision of Schuman and the founding fathers of the European Union on the one hand, and on the other hand, he directs attention to the present and the future.

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The aim of this paper is to examine the possibilities and scope of the participatory model of BIH libraries in the period of self-governing socialism for the purpose of rethinking the way of doing business and relations with library users through a new, participatory approach. Participatory activities in pre-war BIH libraries and theoretical assumptions of participatory librarianship can serve as a starting point for considering the current model of involving library users in their capacity as its members. The results of this paper will try to show that the participatory library model always depends on certain socio-political aspects of government, starting from different methodologies and ways of cooperation, but also that certain type of understanding of participation further implies wider civic engagement or verification of the existing social situation. The importance of this analysis is in a better understanding of the two types of participatory approaches in libraries that, due to redefining relationships with users, can lead to different forms of social action and management.

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Contrary to expectations, the signing of the Central American peace accord and the democratization that followed failed to generate peace and security to the citizens of the Northern Triangle countries. Instead, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were enveloped in a new wave of violence. Most criminal activities, insecurity and violence are caused by Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO), which at the moment represent a greater threat to regional security than the wars led in the 1980s. They are the crucial violators of human rights, and state institutions in charge of implementing the law are too weak to successfully take them on. This paper portrays the activity of the Mexican drug cartels, the transportistas and members of the mara in the Northern Triangle countries. It emphasizes that high murder rates and insecurity have significant impact on the citizens' attitudes towards democratic efficiency, making them more prone to accepting repressive methods of fighting crime and insecurity, as well as undemocratic behavior and the approval of a military comeback into the political arena. The paper concludes that after a prolonged period of citizen dissatisfaction with the way democracy is working, an erosion of legitimacy might occur, which would, in turn, broaden the space for DTOs and their criminal activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper shows the development of consociational democracy in Lebanon from independence until today, and mutually intertwined internal and external factors that affected (and still affect) the Lebanese political system. The paper is divided into three sections. The first section is focused on the independence from France in 1943, and the establishment of the "First Republic". That same year, leading Lebanese Christian and Muslim politicians came to an unwritten understanding, a kind of Lebanese gentlemen's agreement, which later became known as the "National Pact". This agreement was not aimed at establishing the foundations of Lebanese confessional democracy, but despite that, it established the foundations for a political system, which regulates the interconfessional relations in Lebanon even today. The second section of the paper deals with the crises of 1952 and 1958, which tested the Lebanese state and society, and the Civil War of 1975-1989 that tore Lebanon apart. The 1989 Ta'if Accord officially ended the war and marked the beginning of the "Second Republic". The conclusion is a short discussion focused on the future of Lebanon, taking into consideration the current state of the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper provides a critical evaluation of the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia of November 8, 2006, and finds it an insufficient foundation of a democratic constitutional state. Based on Carl Schmitt's theory, the Serbian regime is defined as most similar to a total pluralist party-state (totaler pluralistischer Parteistaat). Still, there are large cracks in the regime resulting from the dialectics of opposed tendencies towards a pro-Kosovo commissarial dictatorship (aiming at the introduction of a state of emergency in order to defend Kosovo and Metohia) and a pro-European sovereign dictatorship (aiming at "European integrations", but not at the construction of a democratic constitutional state). In the final section, the paper points out the problems facing the Serbian political actors in the coming period should they strive towards constitutional consolidation of Serbia and towards making European integrations part of the task of constructing a democratic constitutional state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper discusses the dilemmas regarding the nature of the European Union in contemporary political science and in the field of European Studies as a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary field. The first part focuses on the evolution of the European Union from the original European Coal and Steel Community, via the European Economic Community, to its growth into a political union. The Maastricht Treaty, which lay the foundations of the European Union as a political union of its member states, instigated a debate on the actual nature of this supranational union as political construct. Consequently, the author analyses the various characteristics of the European Union, which is manifest in various forms, and asserts that it has some "state- -like features" and some "organisation-like features", which are characteristic of international organizations. In the approach to the European Union as a supra-state community, some essential traits of both federation and confederation are simultaneously manifest, corresponding to two tendencies in the development of the European Union as a super-state. Moreover, there is the conception of the European Union as an empire. Finally, this paper specifies the tasks of present-day political science and the need to find a new heuristic instrument, which, according to the author, can be found in the conception of the political system that was introduced in political science (comparative politics) by Gabriel Almond and David Easton. Such an approach, which is nowadays further developed by Jean-Pierre Quermonne, Wolfgang Wessels and Simon Hix, is additionally strengthened by the fact that various models of democratic practice are being incorporated in the European Union in opposition to the basic, legitimacy-related democratic deficit, models which confirm the possible conclusion regarding a European Union as a complex community with many faces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to present basic postulates of immediate democracy, determine theoretically its basic instruments, reflect on its historical development, explain justification and nonjustification of criticism it has or has not been exposed to and to show how it works in practice by an example of a number of European countries. It also deals with whether and how the immediate democracy has affected economic development and if it has affected the systems where it has more frequently been practised. The paper emphasizes advantages of immediate democracy and possibilities offered by the well thought out and successfully applied immediate democracy, a necessity to create more space for its faster and more powerful development, especially in economically unstable, developing transitional countries with shaken confidence in ruling political structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The authors regard this paper as a partial contribution to the rare research into the history of the theory of state. In this paper they have analysed not only legal theory texts concerning the state from general legal aspects but also from the aspects of other similar sciences - philosophy, sociology, politics and constitutional law. They analyse texts chronologically to show the representation of some problem areas in a certain period. Given their relationship to the problem area, all texts can be placed in the following groups: texts dealing with democracy and other types of state, sovereignty and other specific attributes of the state, organization of the state, changes in legal order and texts from constitutional law if they concern general legal problems. The most represented authors published in "Mjesecnik" are: Fran Milobar (published from 1922 to 1938) and Ladislav Polic (1903-1918). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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