FIGURE DAYTONA: POJAM, SADRŽAJ I OBLICI DJELOVANJA MEĐUNARODNE ZAJEDNICE U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI
FIGURES OF DAYTON: CONCEPT, CONTENT AND FORMS OF ACTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Nerzuk Ćurak
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Political behavior, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Present Times (2010 - today), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: international community; models of action of international community; United States of America; realism; constructivism;
Summary/Abstract: United States of America have imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina a legal-political construct which is beyond its centuries-old history. It is not predominantly the result of an ethical imperative to stop the violence in the belly of Europe, but the spirit of pragmatism that, “insisting on design, not to make sense, insists on the creation instead of evolution” because “the desire of providing a safe haven is the main cause of defects in the old systems.” Pragmatism interpolates the political doctrine based on “lack of history” without much concern into the area of “surplus of history”. This, the United States as a striking example of the culture with a “lack of history”, imposed on Bosnia and Herzegovina, as an important cultural area with a “surplus of history”, a peace agreement without internal Bosnian-Herzegovinian historical sense, asking all relevant parties in the Bosnian political game to accept the meeting of a history (the new Bosnia and Herzegovina made of entities) and history (unambiguous evidence of the legal-statehood existence of Bosnia and Herzegovina through time) in a possible contact point (which, in order to be plausible, was set in the plane of a history), which would, supposedly, enable BiH to survive as a political subjectivity. Such an approach, according to the pragmatic postulate that “recognizes as truth that which is practically useful,” should not surprise us, and we should treat it as intentionally anti-Bosnian, or intentionally pro-Bosnian. It is simply an imperial approach that has been transformed into a multilateral approach through the work of one particular geo-political figure – the international community. Is the international community in Dayton-made Bosnia and Herzegovina an acceptable linguistic construct that conceals the domination of the United States, or has the international community as an operational instrument of international policy relativized and degraded the key influence of the United States in a country which, from the standpoint of security management, is one of the biggest foreign policy successes of the US administration at the end of the twentieth century?

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