Nacionalni odnosi i etnonacionalne revolucije
National relations and ethnonational revolutions

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the view that the succession of democratic revolutions in 1989 was also a succession of ethnonational revolutions within which the identity of the nation-state was reaffirmed, and that the reaffirmation of statehood throughout Eastern Europe was a kind of recapitalization of the ontogenesis of nation-statehood, the author draws upon the insights of Gaj Sekulić to develop an interpretation of the sequence of wars in ex-Yugoslavia as ethnonational revolutions designed to establish nation-states with a dominant ethnically homogeneous majority. In these conflicts, the author identifies the major elements of revolution in political theory, such as “revolutionary terror,” the establishment of “revolutionary rule,” and the renaming of towns, cities, villages, toponyms, streets. Since in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina the ethnonational revolutions are not yet complete, the author analyzes in particular the strategies for maintaining the revolutionary impetus in the circumstances of an imposed peace.

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