ABSTRACT
Croatian foreign policy should promote Croatian interests in the world, create conditions for developing mutually advantageous relations, and enhance Croatia's stature as a state. The impact of Croatia's international activities, as well as the possibility to be treated on a par with the new democracies created after the collapse of communism, will depend on the strength of those internal foundations. Croatia's foreign policy requires careful monitoring of European and world developments, national agreement on a set of coherent international goals, and the realistic estimate of the available means for realizing those short- and long-term foreign policy objectives. Croatia must constantly explain what is happening in its region and must point out that Croatia belongs to Europe and that it subscribes to European political and economic values. The conditions and results of cooperation within the Visegrad Group should also be reconsidered to see if there are possibilities for expanding it into a larger Central European organization.
