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Sa(f)ve Bosnia!
The Dayton Peace Accords signed in 1995 have up until now proved ineffective. They completed their mission – to stop the hostilities and stabilize the situation. However, they failed to create a viable state. Centrifugal tendencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina are compounded by the conflicting interests of major international players: the European Union and the United States, Russia, and Turkey. The strategy chosen by international forces in Bosnia is inefficient and fraught with outbreaks of violence in the region. This article analyzes the discrepancy of the policy pursued in Bosnia and Herzegovina compared with reality. The author of the article proposes a potential plan for the harmonious development of the state.
This paper addresses the processes by which the international community intervened and participated in the defining of Bosnian identity and the corresponding constitutional framework, as well as the continuous paradoxical tension between the ethnic local and claims to universalism of supranational legal norms. In particular, the 1995 Constitution and the architecture of its sovereignty have been contested through provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights. The analysis is further supported by the discussion of the architectonic structure of the Town Hall/National Library in Sarajevo that has had an important constitutional role since the collapse of the Ottoman period. The paper thus focuses on two sites for construction/deconstruction of Bosnian sovereignty: the constitutional framework and the more concretely visible architectural symbol of the Town Hall/National Library. This importance of a visual and spatial approach to Bosnian realities is carried further by the 1993 ‘Eulogy’ that Jean-Luc Nancy wrote for Sarajevo, as a site of the Mêlée.
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This paper addresses the processes by which the international community intervened and participated in the defining of Bosnian identity and the corresponding constitutional framework, as well as the continuous paradoxical tension between the ethnic local and claims to universalism of supranational legal norms. In particular, the 1995 Constitution and the architecture of its sovereignty have been contested through provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights. The analysis is further supported by the discussion of the architectonic structure of the Town Hall/National Library in Sarajevo that has had an important constitutional role since the collapse of the Ottoman period. The paper thus focuses on two sites for construction/deconstruction of Bosnian sovereignty: the constitutional framework and the more concretely visible architectural symbol of the Town Hall/National Library. This importance of a visual and spatial approach to Bosnian realities is carried further by the 1993 ‘Eulogy’ that Jean-Luc Nancy wrote for Sarajevo, as a site of the Mêlée.
This work is devoted to the analysis of the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the party prism. It were the key political parties of Bosnia and Herzegovina: Serbian Democratic Party (SDP), Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and Bosnia-centric Party of Democratic Action (SDA), that played the most serious role in the mobilization and organization of three opposing ethnic groups – Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats at the beginning of the Bosnian war and after the formal end of the conflict in 1995. Analysis of the post-war rhetoric of the Bosnian parties and their actions in the position of the leading political forces of the country are the basis of our criticism of the widespread thesis that “the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been completed by eliminating of its causes”. In addition, the analysis showed that the exogenous factor of European integration was the only unifying element for the ethno-centric parties of the Bosnian parliament.
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