VIOLATING MINORITY RIGHTS IN THE POST-DAYTON BOSNIA: CAN ETHNO-NATIONALIST COUNTRY ENTER THE EUROPEAN UNION? Cover Image

ПРЕКРШУВАЊЕ НА ПРАВАТА НА МАЛЦИНСТВАТА ВО ПОСТДЕЈТОНСКА БОСНА: ДА ЛИ ЕТНОНАЦИОНАЛИСТИЧКАТА ЗЕМЈА МОЖЕ ДА ВЛЕЗЕ ВО ЕВРОПСКАТА УНИЈА?
VIOLATING MINORITY RIGHTS IN THE POST-DAYTON BOSNIA: CAN ETHNO-NATIONALIST COUNTRY ENTER THE EUROPEAN UNION?

Author(s): Bedrudin Brljavac
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Центар за регионални истражувања и соработка Студиорум
Keywords: Bosnia; Herzegovina; post-Dayton; post-war; ethno-nationalist; minority; rights; decisionmaking; Constitution

Summary/Abstract: Although over more than ten years Bosnia and Herzegovina has been going through extensive Eurelated reform process, the country is still facing serious democratic deficit. In particular, the post-Dayton public sphere has been dominated by ethno-nationalist political elites, which are doing everything to exclude non-nationalists and minority groups from the decisionmaking process. In this article, the author analyses the process of the post-Dayton ethno-nationalization resulting in a widespread discrimination against the so-called Others, as defined in the Constitution. In the post-war BiH democratic participation has turned into a competition between the three ethnic communities, Bosniaks, Serbs, and Croats, rather than race of equal individuals having equal right of vote; Bosnian people are still living under the political system that is ethno-democracy rather than democratic regime.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 57-83
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Macedonian