Affiliation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations: thesis, antithesis and synthesis of the absolute events Cover Image

Prijem Bosne i Hercegovine u Ujedinjene nacije: teza, antiteza i sinteza apsolutnog događaja
Affiliation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations: thesis, antithesis and synthesis of the absolute events

Author(s): Nerzuk Ćurak
Subject(s): Political history, International relations/trade, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Geopolitics
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: International recognition; Sovereignty; Realism; Constructivism; Foreign policy; Internal policy;

Summary/Abstract: Thirty years after the international recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a scientific challenge par excellence is posed: examining its political, geopolitical, economic, and cultural consequences. Verified on 22. 5. 1995 by the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the United Nations organization, the triumph of Bosnian sovereignty brought with it both positive and negative implications. In the history of the Bosnian state, this remains one of the most important dates, discovered three decades later as the last line of defence against continuous attempts to destroy the state’s plural, longitudinal political subjectivity. The author’s argument will empower the international recognition of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the epochal event, the Mother of Events that have happened and which will happen. The argumentation is built by examination of the sovereign and the anti-sovereign variables, within a hypothetical framework in which the possibility of convergence of the unified external sovereignty and dual internal sovereignty is investigated. The key question posed is whether this convergence is possible and necessary, and, if not, what is the future of the Bosnian and Herzegovinian sovereignty. Will the flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina still stand in front of the UN Building at the East River? Is the danger of its removal truly gone?

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 01+02
  • Page Range: 36-44
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Bosnian
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