New Concept of the State

1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	15
Seminar	15

Course description:
- to develop students' knowledge and skills related to the spatial and social organization
- to enable students to comprehend the functioning of administrative-territorial organizations
- to introduce students to the fundamental identity forms of the state
- to enable students to discover, recognize, and define concepts, categories, and laws related to statehood
- to enable students for independent scientific research work related to the consideration of state concepts
- to train students in applying standard and specific methods and techniques in the research of state models
- to explain the specificities of Croatian statehood to students
- to introduce students to the development of global and regional influences on statehood
- to develop students' application of developmental projection methods and models for assessing state functionality
- to explain to students the fundamental conditioning factors on the development of Croatian geographical space and society
- to enable students to understand, clarify, and predict future developmental issues, trends, conditioning factors, and consequences of the spatial and social organization of the total Croatian population
- to develop students' awareness of the threats facing fundamental systems in Croatian society and space
- to provide students with insight into the foundations for the survival of Croatian statehood
- to develop a sense of the need for a shared identity among students as a prerequisite for a new state concept
- to consider Croatian identity as the foundation of a new concept
- to view the Croatian population within a single, unified concept
Knowledge, abilities, and skills; Consideration, understanding, and cognition of:
- the theoretical and methodological concept and system of a functional state,
- the laws governing state space and society,
- the logic and political organization of the Croatian state,
- general and specific methodological approaches to state models,
- the application of cognitive, graphic, cartographic, computational, and other methods in the consideration of statehood,
- the structure of the domestic and emigrant Croatian population as the baseline for a new concept of statehood,
- social and spatial processes, connections, relationships, and models within the framework of Croatian statehood,
- the strategic significance of the total population in the new concept,
- the natural basis as a primary factor of the state concept,
- social (civilizational) structures in the function of organizing the new concept of the state,
- the order of magnitude of the conditionality of demographic parameters within the new concept,
- the correlation between the natural basis and the social superstructure in the state concept,
- the materialization of the new state concept in an economic and developmental sense,
- the general and regional concept of spatial organization,
- regional, spatial, and social development planning based on total Croatian wealth,
- the functioning of already existing new state models,
- the strategic significance of the new state concept for the overall development and survival of Croatia.
Cognitive abilities and skills
- Identifying, defining, resolving, and forecasting the development of the state concept
- Identifying and resolving spatial, social, and state disharmony
- Interpreting, discussing, and explaining relevant factors of the state structure and developmental spatial processes, connections, relationships, and models
- The ability to consider and clarify a scientific approach to the new state concept in written and oral form
Practical abilities and skills
- Understanding spatial and social logic in the concept of new statehood through fieldwork and the application of scientific technology
- Mapping state contents, processes, connections, and relationships
- Applying relevant computational, graphic, and other methods in the process of considering and clarifying the new concept
- Applying cartographic methods and projections in considering, clarifying, and conveying the new state model
- Applying GIS in a methodological and technical sense when solving research tasks
Operational abilities and skills
- Independent searching and selecting of literature and data sources
- Preparing a research task proposal
- Preparing a research study or an elaborate of professional scope

1. To define and distinguish the fundamental theoretical concepts of traditional and new models of statehood, and to explain the specificities of the development of Croatian statehood.
2. To analyze the impact of demographic parameters and the structure of both domestic and emigrant populations on the stability, functionality, and survival of state systems.
3. To independently develop and present a research proposal, professional study, or report in the field of spatial, social, and economic state planning.
4. To formulate development demographic projections and predict future trends for the purpose of spatial and social organization of the total Croatian population.

1. Geodemografska i geopolitička stvarnost Hrvatske i modeli nove državnosti, Temeljna literatura za razumijevanje demografskog okvira, prostorne funkcionalnosti te analizu modela državnosti Irske i Izraela u usporedbi s Hrvatskom., Stjepan Šterc, Fakultet hrvatskih studija Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2021.
2. Tehnika i struktura nade: socijalnost hrvatskoga prostora, Literatura namijenjena usvajanju znanja o organizaciji prostora i društva te prepoznavanju ugroza temeljnih sustava u hrvatskom prostoru., Ivan Rogić, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, 2000.
3. Novi koncept države - Nastavni materijali i prezentacije s predavanja, Autorizirana predavanja, seminarske upute i selektirani znanstveni članci koji prate satnicu kolegija od 1. do 15. tjedna nastave., Zdravko Matić, Fakultet hrvatskih studija (interni repozitorij / Merlin), 2026.
4. Nacionalna razvojna strategija Republike Hrvatske do 2030. godine, Službeni dokument namijenjen analizi razvojnih i demografskih projekcija te strateškog planiranja i ekonomske održivosti državnog koncepta., Vlada Republike Hrvatske, Narodne novine, 2021.

Enrollment :
Attended : Croatian Diaspora and Entire Development

Mandatory course - Regular studij - Demography and Croatian Diaspora