The Ethnopolitics and Crisis of Sovereignity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Ethnopolitics and Crisis of Sovereignity in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: Analyzing the status of the sovereignty of Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter ‘BiH’) the author inquires the ethnopolitical strategies including the International community’s various practices of political de-personalization of BiH since 1992 that supported further fragmentation of “Bosnian constituency” into ethnopolitical entities in the attempt to answer an important question on whether Bosnia and Herzegovina could be considered a sovereign state. The present ethnopolitical regime heavily depends on the perpetual “apolitical crisis” as the primary source of political articulation and action. Indeed, author claims, that through the process of, what he coined, ‘humanitarization’ that had occurred during the 1992-95 war the internationally recognized UN member state has progressively been transformed into the ‘conflict zone’ and thus politically depersonalized. Parallel to this process was the process of depersonalization of citizens – from political persons, individual bearers of fundamental rights and freedoms they were depersonalized through the humanitarization into biological units, or beings awaiting to be fed. That is why, the political personality of both the state and its citizens has been just empty concept to this day in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Heideggerian words, Bosnian state is, but does not exist. In that regard, author inquires the possibilities of ‘postnational’ self-understanding of Bosnian political community.

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