Sovereignty: Bosnia’s Price for Peace
Sovereignty: Bosnia’s Price for Peace

Summary/Abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina has entered the third decade of its “future” negotiation process. In thirty years of negotiations about its constitutional-territorial position, this country has made its way from independence to the Socialistic Federative Republic of Yugoslavia to independence from the whole world. Recognition of state independence, on the one hand, was accompanied by a threat to its physical existence, on the other hand. With a reduction of state sovereignty and constitutional-territorial surgery, the price for the peace has been paid, that after a three-decade experience has elements of a truce. From the state independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina until today, all “peace” negotiations, in its substance, have contained an anti-state narrative. Negotiation about an internationally recognized was another name for sophisticated reduction of the state. It is a confirmation that real politics dominates the international conventions and institutions. Through the negotiations in the war, legal consent for the actual state change was made. At the same time, the post-war period was marked with a formal construction of the state institutions deprived of the real power of coercion or sovereignty.

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