Brekalo Miljenko: Paradržava: Republika Srpska Krajina

Miljenko Brekalo: Parastate: Republika Srpska Krajina

From the preface

The content of this book refers to the historical and legal presentation of the parastate of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, which de facto existed on the occupied territory of the Republic of Croatia until August 7, 1995, i.e. until the end of the military police operation code-named Storm. However, the Greater Serbian idea on the Croatian national territory was finally defeated on January 15, 1998, with the peaceful reintegration of the Croatian Danube region into the constitutional and legal system of the Republic of Croatia.

The Republika Srpska Krajina by its nature was a federative "state" with territorial discontinuity, the multi-word names of its federative units throughout the book are written with a capital letter because that is how they are listed in the official Krajina documents, although their names should be spelled correctly. combined, i.e. uppercase and lowercase initial letters. On the other hand, according to the suggestion of linguists, during the writing of this book I did not use the so-called abbreviation in its text. or the prefix quasi as part of a compound word on the occasion of specifying the "state-legal" subjectivity of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, but only in the title of the book Paradrajva Republika Srpska Krajina I decided, in the morphological process of combining words, to use the Greek word para as the first part of the nominal compound paradrajva.

The content of the book in facto refers to the structure of the government of the parastate of the Republic of Srpska Krajina, that is, to the Croatian legal history from the end of the 20th century. century. Legal knowledge is very often not propria scientia for a wider readership, it is professionalem scientia, that is why, before the historical elaboration and presentation of a specific thematic entity, I decided to clarify the legal institutes and terms in a theoretical form so that the content of the book would be accessible to a wide readership. Namely, I explained the concept of state, sovereignty, immediate sovereignty, fiscal sovereignty, monetary system, monetary union, judicial, legislative and executive power and other concepts. I decided to study the Republic of Serbian Krajina from a historical and legal point of view, and I put the focus of scientific research on the structure of the government of the rebel Serbs in the occupied state territory of the Republic of Croatia. Namely, I processed the structure of the legislative, judicial, executive, fiscal and monetary authorities of the Republic of Serbian Krajina. In addition to the aforementioned forms of government, I dealt with the sui generis wartime monetary union of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Republika Srpska and the Republika Srpska Krajina, which existed in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, the Republic of Montenegro and the occupied parts of the Republic of Croatia and neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, two sovereign, internationally recognized states, full members of the United Nations, which had their own monetary system without fully established monetary sovereignty in the occupied territories...