Here you can find articles from a few issues of Discrepancy originally published in Croatian, but selected for translation into English. For now, there are three articles available in English, but there will be more to come.

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This paper deals with certain elements of the ideology of the organization/movement Otpor (Resistance) that sprang from student movements and was among the most active counter-Milošević civic forces in the Serbian society. Such ideological issues have been, to this day, relevant to the processes of establishing the identity of the Serbian civil society. Among these the influences of a neoliberal ideology and of the Orientalist discourse have been crucial. The paper criticizes the indiscriminate attitudes that Otpor's ideologists adopted towards Serbian historical and cultural traditions; towards the legacy of Ottoman rule for example. It also points to the limitations present in the process of the development of an authentic identitiy of a Balkan society.

Keywords: civil society, Otpor's ideology, Milošević's Serbia, neoliberalism, Orientalism

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The text analyses the problem of the treatment of wartime sexual violence against women at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The starting point of the analysis is the gender-ethnical discourse based on the evaluation of data on war rapes published by the media and the UN. Two fundamental lines of thought developed: the gender-subject and the ethno-political. The gender-subject corpus of theories examines the gender dimension of wartime sexual violence. The ethno-political questions the relationship between the female subject and the ethnic subject. I will refer to the analytically problematic places as spaces of disjunction. The first such place is the female body. Here we discuss the ICTY's insistence on naming only the rapes that belonged to the systematic and mass policy of rape as war crimes. The second space of disjunction is the female subject. Here we examine the subordination of the female subject to the ethnic subject, which is most evident in the treatment of forced pregnancy exclusively in the context of ethnic cleansing. The third and last space of disjunction is the female silence. The ICTY legally neglects survivors and witnesses, which increases the probability of secondary victimization, and discourages the breach of silence. The final part of the paper examines the possible consequences of the humanitarian-legal foundation of the patriarchal construction of identity in peacetime, especially the perpetuation of ethnocentrism and patriarchy. The International Criminal Tribunal is not seen as being able to fill the spaces of justice, emptied by the disjunctions. Such a role may come to be assumed by the courts of alternative justice.

Keywords: wartime sexual violence against women, war rape, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, gender-ethnical discourse

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The British Government has recently officially confirmed indications that towards the end of 1949 George Orwell supplied one of its departments with a list of names of prominent public figures whom he considered to be “crypto-Communists” or “fellow travellers”. Considering the fact that Orwell had in no way been coerced to such an action, his life-long devotion to the ideals of democratic socialism, his regards for some ideas of communism, and, most, of all, his utter aversion to totalitarian practices brings forth the question of his motives, as well as the implications of his action, especially those that are presently relevant. For that purpose this paper looks into the circumstances surrounding the making of the list, but also into various biographical elements which determined his analytical point of view, and provided the specific tone and direction of his fictional and non-fictional works.
It has been of particular interest to illustrate the overwhelming tendency of the U.S. Administration towards proposing or implementing certain laws, policies and practices that can be directly related to Orwell’s vision of totalitarian future, perhaps for the first time in Western democracies. Many analysts hold the position that a rapid shift in the U.S. policy is necessary if we are not to witness numerous aspects of Orwell’s dystopian model turning from a warning into a form of Orwellian reality. Interpreted from that perspective, Orwell’s action might prove to be the most alarming part of his legacy.

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This essay analyses the political institution of the upper house of the Croatian Parliament, the House of Counties. I put forward a thesis that the House of Counties was not necessary within the political system of the Republic of Croatia. I present the theoretical background of the debate about unicameralism and bicameralism in political sciences, the historical overview of the development of bicameralism, and a sketch of parliamentary systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe which are, like Croatia, currently undergoing the process of democratic transition. I describe the Croatian experience with the constitutional framework of the House of Counties, the process of its abolishing and subsequent reactions of Croatian political protagonists. I then briefly present the possibilities of reinstating the upper parliamentary house through the Goran Declaration.

Keywords: upper house, unicameralism, bicameralism, federalism