BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: STATE-POWER AND SOCIETY
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: STATE-POWER AND SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis (Fukuyama, 1989) has attracted considerable global attention and provoked passionate debate, in both academic and political circles, ever since its initial appearance in 1989. The numerous subsequent academic debates on it and the original article have proven the significance of an idea that corresponds in normative terms to the fall of the Berlin Wall in empirical analysis. Support for the theory has waned, but it is inevitable that a study of the liberal democratic order that now dominates Europe give it due consideration. That order has been challenged through this period by forms of illiberal democracy, hybrid regime, and autocracy, often supported by nationalist ideology. Some of the countries that initially set off on transition towards a liberal form of democracy have since re-routed their political and social development trajectory.

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