Bosna nakon Dejtona: geopolitička iskušenja postmoderne države
Bosnia after Dayton: the geopolitical challenges of the post-modern state

Summary/Abstract: In the seventh year of its post-Dayton existence, Bosnia, the half-completed Bosnian state, still presents a political, economic, security and cultural problem to the sub-region (the former Yugoslavia), the region (South-Eastern Europe), the macro-region (Europe) and the pan-region (the Americanized world). The author endeavours to discern the causes of this, examining the geopolitical capacity of Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state that is not a state, regardless of the fact that it is regarded as one on the basis of international law. Dubbing the new Bosnia and Herzegovina a post-modern witticism of geopolitical genius, the author of this paper calls into question the Dayton constitution of the state, regarding this form of political order as acting out a state that is not a state as such. Th is constitutional order puts on hold the potential for Bosnia and Herzegovina to be part of globalization as the universal world-game and enhances the credibility of political and academic analyses that present the image of Bosnia and Herzegovina by means of the ‘imperialism of the imagination’. The paper regards the Dayton Accord as justified as a politico-legal document in just one regard, that of having brought to an end the primordial violence. Th e Accord functions as a truncated, albeit significant, contribution to the ethos of western civilization as American. In this regard the author reaches an unexpected conclusion that corresponds to present European weakness: the ‘old lady’ merely produces the illusion of her own military power, which in fact does not exist, and this has a dramatic impact on the security of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a member state of the international community towards which the Bush administration does not demonstrate the same feelings and interest as were a feature of the Clinton administration.

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