The international community should rethink the applicability in the short run of some of the high principles that guide its demands, and accept instead the basic lesson of democracy: democratic governments succeed and indeed only survive when they strike a compromise between what they should do ideally and what their constituencies demand.
Keywords:
authoritarianism,
Balkans,
Croatia,
media,
Mesic,
nationalism,
Racan,
transition,
Tudjman,
Yugoslav
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