POLITICAL-LEGAL PERSPECTIVE OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA

Abstract

The political-legal perspective of the development of the republics of the former SFRY can be
obtained by a precise analysis of political developments in the former SFRY, viewed from the legal
aspect, and under the influence of domestic and international factors that create a political
reality in each individual republic. Building and taking care of a healthy, institutionally solid,
legally dignified political system of one state is a challenge for every government, and therefore
the government is a creator of an image of the political system, but also of innovative, economic,
diplomatic, economic activity, which in many ways determines the level of democracy, the
standard of living , the degree of political culture, constitutional and legal progress, the development
of local self-government, and thus forms the image of a given society viewed through
the lens of the political system. After its creation, the SFRY was a supranational state, with a
federal political system, formed on the ruins of the outdated monarchist form of government,
it had the futuristic contours of a real reality and, per its ideological concept, was significantly
ahead of the time in which it existed. It was a symbol of sociological progress, synonymous
with concepts that modern authors of political-legal thought today call cosmopolitanism. In this
paper a comparative method of research will be applied, and based on it, will be presented the
key determinants that define the social situation in the republics of the SFRY today, altogether
with the proposals for the implementation of positive experiences, as well as the proposals for
overcoming the potential difficulties of certain republics that they are facing today, considering
that they have successfully overcome other similar obstacles.