NOVA POLITIČKA VIZIJA GRADSKE AUTONOMIJE: IZAZOVI TERITORIJALNE I INSTITUCIONALNE REORGANIZACIJE GRADA SARAJEVA
NEW POLITICAL VISION OF CITY AUTONOMY: CHALLENGES OF TERRITORIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL REORGANIZATION OF THE CITY OF SARAJEVO

Author(s): Elvis Fejzić
Subject(s): Politics, Constitutional Law, Governance
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: state; city; politics; constitution; government; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Sarajevo;
Summary/Abstract: All political communities during their historical development go through a process of complicated transformation, which has social, political and economic implications. Given that states – as actors of transnational politics – are affected by processes of permanent transformation, which requires them to constantly reposition themselves and adapt to the changed political context, subnational communities from the sphere of regional, city and local politics are also covered by these changes. The aforementioned political transformation can also be detected in post-socialist countries, i.e., at the subnational levels of government in those political communities. In this sense, special importance is attached to the development of city autonomy and cities in general in the conditions of the post-socialist transition, but also of neoliberal globalization. The development of the City of Sarajevo in post-socialist and post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina is not entirely free from sketchy extra-state political and economic influences. However, its overall transformation and political development is decisively limited by the complicated and insufficient domestic constitutional and legal regulations, which reduced the original political competences and city autonomy of the City of Sarajevo, which prevented and stopped the process of functional territorial and institutional reorganization. Bearing the above in mind, it is necessary to redefine and change the current political status and competences of the City of Sarajevo – in accordance with the normative functions of city autonomy – without which it is not possible to plan its long-term and sustainable development, which would simultaneously satisfy the needs of its citizens and reduce political tensions between political center and periphery.

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