Od Dejtonskog mirovnog sporazuma do danas: aspiracije Srbije prema Istočnoj Bosni i koncepti mogućih odgovora
From the Dayton Peace Agreement to the Present: Serbia’s Aspirations toward Eastern Bosnia and the Concept of Possible Responses

Author(s): Ermin Kuka
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Dayton Peace Agreement; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Serbia; Eastern Bosnia; Greater Serbia politics; territory;
Summary/Abstract: The neighboring Republic of Serbia, in accordance with the previously elaborated and conceived Greater Serbia project, has had and still holds special territorial, as well as other, pretensions and aspirations towards the region of Eastern Bosnia. This was most indicatively expressed during the Second World War, and especially during the last aggression against the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, when Eastern Bosnia, more specifically the Podrinje region, was declared a special, strategic area for the Serbian people and the future Serbian state. The age-old desire to eliminate the Drina River as a border between the alleged “Serbian lands” led to the commission of numerous individual and mass crimes against the Bosniaks of Eastern Bosnia, including the crime of genocide. However, these aspirations of neighboring Serbia were not expressed and implemented only during the war. They are also present in times of peace, especially after the signing of the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of 1995 (the Dayton Peace Agreement). Neighboring Serbia, in the period after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement until today, has been using various new methods, means and mechanisms with the aim of weakening the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina and achieving the goals that it failed to implement during the aggression from 1992-1995. For this purpose, and through the use of the mechanism of “special” ties with the RS entity, Serbia is trying to strengthen its position in Bosnia and Herzegovina and thus further weaken the sovereignty of the state and threaten its territorial integrity, aiming for the final goal of creating a Greater Serbian state. In this regard, continuous proactive opposition to such concepts and actions by the institutions of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is necessary, which will force the neighboring state to respect the state institutions, its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Therefore, the goal of this research is to identify some of the most pronounced attacks on the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially the region of Eastern Bosnia, by neighboring Serbia in the period after the Dayton Peace Agreement, to recall such actions, and to offer concepts of possible responses to these pretensions and aspirations.

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