摘要：The relationship between “realpolitik” and “principle” in the context of Croatia gaining its national independence (after Yugoslavia’s disintegration) is examined at two fundamental levels. The first pertains to the exceptionally complex problem of the character of international relations and the conduct of the international community with regard to the geopolitical fragmentation of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s. The second level peripherally touches upon the predisposition of Croatian intellectual and political elites to recognize and understand the qualitatively equally complex implications of the process of gaining state independence. This work has been conceived as a historical and political science study.
关键词：collapse of Yugoslavia; Croatia’s state independence; United States; Germany; human rights; realpolitik
