Bosanski unitarizam: ideološka konstrukcija ili politička realnost?
BOSNIAN UNITARISM: IDEOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OR POLITICAL REALITY?

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary political organization of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is characterized by its complex internal structure and by the limited capacity and jurisdiction of the state institutions in relation to lower territorial and administrational units. Within such state system, alleged Unitarian tendencies of certain factors of the political establishment are presented as an attempt of achieving territorial and political domination and rule of the most numerous constitutive group over the others. Almost every initiative of strengthening the central state institutions is perceived as unitarism from this perspective. Likewise, promotion of the very idea of citizen, state or simply Bosnian belonging is presented as a process complementary to the presumed desired untarization of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such perceptions are one of the basic rhetorical tools in the speaking of the representatives of the so-called nationally-inclined political subject, primarily those of Serb or Croat orientation. Basic concepts and perceptions of the question or problem of unitarization are presented in the paper, with an analysis of realistic, possible ways of implementation or deconstruction of such a concept of organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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