Društveni konflikt između države i društava
Social Conflict between State and Societies

Author(s): Petar Atanasov
Subject(s): Anthropology, Politics and society, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Post-Communist Transformation, Politics and Identity
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Bosnian society; Macedonian society; ethnic democracy; politicization of ethnicity; social integration
Summary/Abstract: In this text, the main subject of the analysis is the social conflict between the state and societies. In the cases of Bosnian and Macedonian society, the relation between different ethnic communities and the state is elaborated. Starting with ethnic conflicts, through peace agreements and the politicization of ethnicity, the internal integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia differ due to different models of the states. Bosnia is dominated by the Dayton model of ethnic divisions of the three peoples, while in Macedonia the model is defined by the Ohrid Agreement and the enlarged rights of non-majority communities (mainly Albanians). It is argued that Bosnia and Macedonia are long-term unstable societies, due to social (ethnic) factors. In Bosnia and Herzegovina there is an open political conflict between the three constitutional peoples. In North Macedonia, there is a latent social (ethnic) conflict that in the short-term has no potential to provoke a new conflict. One of the essential factors are the political elites in Bosnia who openly want a “final“ solution of the problems between ethnic communities. Such political leaders in Macedonia are few and this gives some stability to the Macedonian model of social integration.

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