Bosna i Hercegovina kao etno-teritorijalna federacija: Federativna Narodna Republika Bosna i Hercegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina as Ethnic-Territorial Federation: The Federal People's Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: The Prime Minister of The Republika Srpska Entity Milorad Dodik has initiated on few occasions his idea on reorganization of Bosnia and Herzegovina as federation of the three ethnic republics based on the recognition of people's right to self-determination. Author questions claims to self-determination pointing, along the lines of Buchanan and Hanum that this right could obtrain its legitimacy only in uncontraversial cases of decolonization or genocide, and, philosophically, only in case of prior recognition of the individual citizen's right to self-determination. Regarding federalism, author detects that Dodik's proposal could be compared to the conception of so-called national federalism (Bunce, Suny) that had been unsuccessfully applied by the communist regimes of Soviet Union, Tchechoslovakia and ex Yugoslavia (none of them existing today). Such a federalism proved to function only within an authoritarian framework, and served as incubator of desintegrational nationalisms. Author concludes that it is consistant with Serb nationalist politics to impose nationalist federation in order to strengthen the position of Srpska entity and at the same time to weaken position of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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