A New Croatian Paradigm

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• A Review on Social Integration and Development
• Davor Ivo Stier

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TIM press published Davor Ivo Stier's essay A New Croatian Paradigm in english.

After two successive paradigms, state-forming and Euro-Atlanticism, Croatia is facing a new challenge: the opening of political and economic institutions as well as social development. With social integration and planned democratization of institutions of the Croatian state, one would testify to resistance against determinism and pervasive apathy that dominate our public space. It is precisely the definition of this new development paradigm that Davor Ivo Stier, a member of the European Parliament, considers in his book A New Croatian Paradigm as a prerequisite for significant economic growth and overall development of Croatian society and of the Croatian state. Afterword is written by Tonino Picula.

"As a 'constellation of beliefs, values, (...) ​​shared by members of a particular community', the new paradigm requires not only the democratization of the way the political parties function, but also doctrinal molding in accordance with the strategic objectives of opening the institutions and integration of excluded or marginalized Croatian citizens. This orientation towards the new paradigm will not be unambiguous, each party will access the developmental frame from its point of view, but it will also share with other relevant parties a strategic orientation towards social integration as a basis for development.
With democratization of the parties the power of party president and the leadership will be limited, the internal and external control will increase, greater transparency in the decision-making process will be enabled and finally the public confidence in political institutions will be renewed and greater civic participation will be encouraged. Such democratization of political parties also essentialy narrows the space for corruption generated by the interaction of closed political and economic institutions."

This book was published using funds from Group of the European People's Party in the European Parliament.

Davor Ivo Stier is a member of the European Parliament and the chief negotiator of the European People's Party in the Committee on Development. He was awarded the Parliament Magazine MEP Award 2015 for the best representative in the field of development policy. Before the elections to the European Parliament he was a member of the Croatian Parliament and vice president of the Foreign Policy Board. From 2010 to 2014 he was the international secretary of the Croatian Democratic Party. He was born on 6 January 1972 in Buenos Aires. He graduated political sciences and international relations at the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, and at the same University he got a diploma in journalism. Then he completed the Diplomatic Academy in Zagreb and was a member of the Croatian diplomacy for over fifteen years. Among other things, he worked at the Croatian Embassy in the United States and in the Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels. As an advisor on Foreign Affairs to the Prime Minister, and later as a special envoy of the Prime Minister for Euro-Atlantic cooperation, he worked on the completion of negotiations for full Croatian membership in NATO and the European Union. During the war he was a correspondent for Radio America and the Argentine daily El Cronista. He was awarded the Order of Duke Branimir for promoting political dialogue and cooperation in the European Parliament. He is married and has three children. With his family he lives in Samobor.

• ISBN: 9789538075179
• Year of the edition: 2016
• Number of pages: 160
• Cover: paperback
• Original title: Nova hrvatska paradigma. Ogled o društvenoj integraciji i razvoju
• Original language: croatian
• Translation: Tomislava Balić
• Dimensions: 128x200 mm