The political-economic and social status of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The political-economic and social status of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The process of transformation which affects all the countries of the former socialist model of authority is called a transition. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the process of introducing changes is much more complex and contains the elements of the implementation of the peace and the sweeping away of the results of the war, i.e. ethnic cleansing, the deprivation of human rights or, to put it in short, the causes of the war. In other words, in addition to what seems common for all the countries in transition, Bosnia is faced with the need simultaneously to establish normal relations with its neighbours and with a radically new internal organisation in accordance with the intentions and basic prospects envisaged by the Peace Agreement. This is the reason why the term ‘transition’ implies changes in the sphere of social relations, in the legislative, political and economic system, in the ownership basis, in the function and nature of the state administration and in the functioning of ordinary people, the rights and freedoms they are entitled to and which they will be able to realise under the new democratic circumstances.

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