Focus Studies of Geographically Connected Countries: Analysis of Regionally Oriented Studies in Political Science Publications 1996-2012

• Main Author: Andreja Petković
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia 2013-01-01
• Series: Anali Hrvatskog Politološkog Društva
• Subjects: regional studies; comparative regional studies; Croatia; South-East Europe; Middle Europe
• Online Access: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/181819

This article studies the focus studies of geographically connected and geographically not connected countries, i.e. regional and comparative regional studies. In the first part of the article, a description of the role and development of this type of studies as a subdiscipline of comparative politics is provided. In the second part, I present the results of quantitative analysis of the content of articles published in the academic journals published or co-published by the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. The objects of analysis are regional studies of South-East Europe published in the journals. The main goal of this article is to determine which countries in their regional surroundings are researched the most by Croatian political scientists (and other authors who publish such articles in Croatian or English language in those journals), and which countries Croatia is most often compared to. This research has shown that, with regard to studies of the region, Croatian political scientists mostly focus on the countries of the former Yugoslavia.