Külügyi Szemle - A Magyar Külügyi Intézet folyóirata - 2008 (7. évfolyam)
2008 / 1. szám - BALKÁN - Juhász Adrienn Lilla: A boszniai gócpont: a folytonosság és átmenet keresztútjain
Résumé Bosnia at the Crossroads of Sustained Irregularity and Consolidation The war in Bosnia and the whole of the post-Yugoslav disintegration process are still being analyzed predominantly through discourses of ethnic conflict while critical approaches employing a relational, interaction-based or harm-centric methodology are being relegated to the periphery. This paper contextualizes elite interactions that took place in the shadow of military operations (interpreted by the Serbian political elite as an ethnic conflict-based civil war) by drawing on accounts of social, economic and political irregularity, constructing an interpretative framework resting on the history of "small" and "great deals" as conceptualized by Strazzari. The way joint criminal enterprises functioned at the time of the war may today be reconstructed with the help of the investigations of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at the Hague (ICTY). At present, ethnocratic regimes and practices still define the political landscape of the Western Balkans, sustaining the conditions of non-understanding, effectively ruling out the possibility of the further evolution of this critical revisionist agenda. The Republika Srpska of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for instance, with PM Milorad Dodik at its helm, has been threatening to introduce "new realist practices" as a reaction to the newly acquired independence of Kosovo, positioning itself as a challenger of the system of international protectorates both in terms of practices of authority and legitimacy. The aim of this paper is to analyze the conditions which sustain practices of transition and irregularity and contribute to the power projection and expansionary institutionalization on the part of ethnocratic regimes that define the struggles for authority and competence in the most sensitive policy sectors. 2008. tavasz 71
