POVIJESNA UTEMELJENOST DRŽAVNOSTI BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE
HISTORICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATEHOOD OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Zijad Šehić
Subject(s): Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Nationalism Studies, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Identity of Collectives
Published by: Akademija Nauka i Umjetnosti Bosne i Hercegovine
Keywords: statehood; Bosnia and Herzegovina; ZAVNOBIH; nationalism; ideology;
Summary/Abstract: In this article the author indicates the historical turning points which were key for the construction of identity, Bosnian and Herzegovinian specificity and the paradigm of unity in difference. He traces the long genesis of Bosnian and Herzegovinian statehood, from the times of Ban Kulin (r. ca. 1180-1204) during which the medieval Bosnian state was affirmed, experiencing its culmination during the reign of Tvrtko I Kotromanić (r. 1353-1391), when it became a Kingdom (1377). The period of the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian and the administration of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and the Slovenes, i.e. the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is observed in the context of international diplomacy, public and secret aspect of national aspirations towards Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the of methods through which they were realized. The process of the restoration of Bosnian and Herzegovinian statehood is given special attention. The paper demonstrates the process of the dissolution of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia and the attempts to dispute the statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina, stressing the importance of pro-Bosnian powers that were responsible for the preservation of independence, unity and sovereignty of the internationally recognized state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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