Kantonizirajmo cijelu Bosnu i Hercegovinu
Let’s cantonize the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The author problematizes the middle level of authority (entities and cantons) in the internal organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. By exploring the historical path of her internal organization, from its medieval statehood over the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav and Dayton period, the author concludes that Bosnia as a society, later as a state, was formed by her citizens of different religions and ethnicities, living together and sharing her destiny. The author found that Bosnia was not a tribal state since its creation, nor was it within its administrative division ever (until Dayton) divided on religious and ethnical lines. The author states that the main reason for the dysfunctionality of Bosnia and Herzegovina can be found in this as the, that is, the slow progress of Bosnia and Herzegovina towards EU and NATO membership. The author advocates the abolition of ethnical and entity affiliations in the internal administrative organization of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This would result in the disappearance of the asymmetrical divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina in two multiethnic entities, also in the federalization of Bosnia and Herzegovina into 14 cantons, with prewar Sarajevo as the capital and the Brčko district with one president. As an alternative to this he proposes a return to the 1974 constitution with all its amendments.

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