Politička analiza: Njemačka u BiH – od namjere do inicijative
Political analysis: Germany in Bosnia and Herzegovina - from intention to initiative

Author(s): Z. Kulundžić, A. Kapetanović, Davor Vuletić, Mirza Kušljugić, Dževad F. Sarajlić, Zlatko Dizdarević
Subject(s): Diplomatic history, International relations/trade
Published by: Vanjskopolitička inicijativa BH
Keywords: Germany and the Balkans;
Summary/Abstract: As much as Germany's foreign policy has shied away from the Balkans throughout history, it has imposed itself on it as an inevitable stop on the way to the Orient. Even today, the words of the famous German chancellor Bismarck, from the sixties of the 19th century, who told the representatives of the Imperial Reichstag: "The entire Balkans are not worth even the healthy bone of a single Pomeranian warrior..." Just a few years later, Bismarck was forced to revise your thesis in practice. Not only did he initiate the Berlin Congress, but he played an active role in creating the borders of today's Balkans. And Angela Merkel's German foreign policy is well aware of the fact that the danger of redrawing the Balkan borders must finally be annulled. The Balkans, with its open problems, is a ticking time bomb in the lap of the European, and thus the German, concept of security. The deactivation of that bomb is a process that has been going on for the last twenty years, and it was Germany that invested considerable financial resources in the "demining" of the region, but perhaps not adequate political attention. In order not to be misunderstood, it is necessary to sublimate why the financial and humanitarian engagement is considered to have lacked the sharper political attention of official Berlin.

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