The dissolution of the former Yugoslavia took place in a wider context of democratic changes all over Europe. The history of European international relations has been marked by processes of integration, disintegration, divisions, armed conflicts, and so on, caused by various ideological, religious and other reasons. Processes of democratization in many countries led to the organization of the first multiparty elections in multinational countries in Eastern and Middle Europe, which used to be founded on the concept of socialist ideology. At the time of its dissolution, the former Yugoslavia constituted six republics: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and two autonomous provinces: Kosovo and Vojvodina. The authors indicate the basic disintegration movements in the process of the former Yugoslavia's dissolution, highlighting the viewpoint of international law and the aspects of possible reintegration in some other form of union. In light of the latest political aspirations, the question of (re)integration and/or disintegration of the former Yugoslav republics is understandable. However, taking into account the history and the war-related events of the early 1990s, the following question may be posed: Is that particular reunion a historical and political irony? In search of the answer to the latter question the authors emphasize a legal perspective, which recognizes the state as a dominant subject of international law (but not the only one), and analyse the aspect of its constituting the international community, and its recognition within that community.
Hrvatski je sabor 8. listopada 1991. donio Odluku o prekidu svih državnopravnih odnosa temeljem kojih je RH bila država članica bivše jugoslavenske federacije i proglasio njezinu punu neovisnost. Ova Odluka nije jedinstvena, niti jednoznačna, već je treba proučavati u kontekstu šireg, vrlo specifičnog i, u odnosu na druge primjere, sasvim posebnog ustavnopravnog procesa konstituiranja državne samostalnosti, ali i procesa njezina međunarodnog priznanja. Izuzetna specifičnost odnosa Odluke od 8. listopada 1991. i Ustavne odluke o suverenosti i samostalnosti Republike Hrvatske već gotovo 30 godina intrigiraju mnoge pravne teoretičare, ali i povjesničare, pa i političare.
Autori rada nemaju nakanu davati konačan ili imperativan sud o ovim temama, već pridonijeti boljem razumijevanju stavova o ovoj Odluci, stavljajući je u vremenski, povijesni okvir. Oni izlažu i većinu dosadašnjih pravno-doktrinarnih prijepora, gledišta međunarodne i nacionalne judikature, koji ipak idu u prilog tezi kako je 8. listopada 1991. Republika Hrvatska dobila sve oznake međunarodnopravnog subjektiviteta koji je trebalo još međunarodnopravno priznati.
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