Source: Balkan Insight
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Croatia needs to precisely set its foreign policy goals and plan its international diplomatic initiatives more thoroughly, according to Dejan Jovic, a professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Sciences and chief analyst to former President Ivo Josipovic.
Jovic commended Croatia for recently taking “a more active role in foreign politics”, but warned that its actions must be better thought through and defined.
“A pro-active foreign policy, one that seeks to act before something happens, is hard to conduct … and it carries certain risks,” he told BIRN.
Regarding Croatia’s attempt to play a brokering role in resolving the crisis in Ukraine as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Croatia should be careful and should not try to resolve issues that are ‘a hot potato’ even for bigger players on the international scene,” Jovic continued.
The crisis in Ukraine is of direct interest to the US and Russia, while in Bosnia, besides these two powers, Turkey is involved as well, he noted.
Categories: Croatia, Europe, Europe and Australia, European Union
Some visionary approach required to draw foreign policy outlines for Croatia. Current political elite lacks this vision. Few days ago visionary and learned people got together and made extremely good analysis of the situation. Better consult these capable people rather then listening to other politicians. For example one of factual analysis done by Dr Jadranka Polovic reads,
“In the new geopolitical clash, it is evident that the great powers in the area of the region, be it the US, the EU Member States or Russia, definitely will have respect for their own interests, while at the same time not ready to take into account the interests of the peoples of the region. It should be noted that all investors who came to the region, either from West, or from the East, always came with the sponsorship of their governments with the ideology of profit making. That is why the, countries in the Balkans or South-Eastern Europe, through nearly three decades of transition during which they were strongly driven by the international actors, instead of the promised prosperity, economic growth and prosperity, significantly regressed in the international division of labor, and occupied a peripheral position in the global economy”.
No political elite in power will ever have courage to say as has been said above. Face the ground realities and try to have real input in to foreign policies for Croatia.