PhD Student Sven Milekić article published in Academic Journal "A Protest, Coup d’État, or Internal Party Power Struggle: What Motivated Croatian War Veterans to Hit the Streets?"
The paper investigates war veterans as organisers of contentious politics in post-war Croatia, by looking into two significant protests; one in the immediate post-war period in 1996 and the other in 2014-5, when Croatia was an EU member state. By using veteran associations’ documents, archival documents, media reports and literature, the paper wishes to place the two case studies into the body of literature that describes the decades-long patron-client relationship between veterans, the dominant political party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and the state.
See the article here: Sven Milekić article