BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA IZMEĐU GLOBALIZACIJE I NACIONALNOG IDENTITETA
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Summary/Abstract: Globalization has an ambivalent impact on nation-states and national identities, and can expand the horizons of communication, education, cooperation, mobility and cultural exchange, but at the same time it can increase social inequalities, cause a sense of loss of control, deepen political insecurity and open up space for nationalist, populist or exclusionary identity reactions. The concepts of globalization, nation, national identity, sovereignty, migration, diaspora, digital networks and identity resistance, which are the subject of theoretical discussions, are connected in this paper to a concrete society in which it is clear that globalization simultaneously produces new opportunities and new tensions. Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the one hand, is involved in global and European processes through markets, migration, education, media, international organizations, digital communications and European integration, while, on the other hand, it faces internal problems of political fragmentation, institutional inefficiency, ethno-national divisions, demographic decline and the departure of young, educated and able-bodied residents. This paper shows that Bosnia and Herzegovina is not an exception outside of globalization, but a society in which globalization is seen in a particularly intense and complex form, and at the same time it is a post-Dayton state, a plural society, a space of ethno-national identities, a state of European aspirations, a country of migration, a society with a strong diaspora, a digitally connected society and a political community that continues to seek a stable balance between collective rights and civil equality.

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