MIT O EUROPEIZACIJI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
MYTH ABOUT THE EUROPEANIZATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the exposition is a critical examination of a reductionist understanding of the process of Europeanization and management of identity differences in the area of the Western Balkans, with a particular emphasis on the Bosnian and Herzegovinian context. Referring to the two dimensions of the problem - auto construction of European identity in relation to the Balkans as unconscious Otherness, and the existence of disciplinary matrix within the EU, which produces the logic of parallel worlds, seriously question the unquestionable applicability of the europeanization discourse in terms of overcoming the division relations in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Deconstruction of the content of vanity of the europeanization discourse and proving its mythological character will be the focal point of the article. In other words, the axiology of European integration in most cases results in perverting outcomes of simulacral nature. In particular, the phrase "The Brussels Bosnia and Herzegovina" serves as a specter, that has, paradoxically, become a reference for valuation of reality to which political subjects refer to, even though they very well know that as such, it does not exist. Europeanization of Bosnia and Herzegovina serves as an ideological - absorption ballast of political passivity, incompetence, and even obstruction, with an indefinite shelf life in terms of providing the illusion of a better future. Special attention will be dedicated to a kind of "Stockholm Syndrome" as a reflexive reaction of the countries of the Western Balkans. Namely, the unconditional acceptance of bureaucratic narrative guidelines that the EU serves as a universal recipe for managing identity differences, which haven’t been achieved and proven efficient in numerous examples within the EU itself. To sum up, this exposition has a goal to strip naked and show the mythological character of the europeanization discourse, its political consequences and outcomes of identity, both in the EU and in terms of the Western Balkans.

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