Bošnjački identitet u globalnom civilnom društvu
Bosniak identity in the global civil society

Summary/Abstract: Civil society invariably implies a democratic society and state. It was originally equated with the state, and juxtaposed with other forms of association, the household, and natural or primitive society. From the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, there began to evolve a differentiation between civil society and the state. Civil society, however, continued to be contrasted with various undemocratic forms of association. Finally, in the first half of the nineteenth century, civil society was distinguished from political society, from the state, and has since then meant on the one hand the actions of the individual in the economic sphere and, on the other, non-political forms of voluntary association. The contextualization of Bosniac identity and the globalization of civil society is intended to draw the attention of the Bosnian intellectual public to the need to build a Bosnian- Herzegovinian civil society, as a society of free individuals in which both the Bosniac and other national identities may be established and manifested as universal and democratic at both the micro and the macro political level.

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