Dr. Ešref Kenan Rašidagić, Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo
Casual reader of news from Bosnia and Herzegovina could nowadays be forgiven for thinking that his newspaper has accidentally reprinted a page originally published sometimes in early 1990s: political stalemate, state institutions at standstill, economy at breaking point, levels of mistrust between political representatives of the three ethnic groups at all-time low, Bosniaks fighting, seemingly in vain, to strengthen the statehood of their only homeland, Serbs threatening to put an end to it through secession of territories where they predominate, Croats seemingly ambivalent, but clearly ready to jump on the bandwagon of dissolution of the state they view as secondary to their true motherland. At the same, the whole fuss is being callously ignored by disinterested international community, preoccupied with more pressing problems elsewhere.
At least no one is currently using the parliament pulpit to threaten ‘Bosnia with becoming a hell and Muslims in Bosnia with disappearance’, as Radovan Karadžić prophetically did in 1991 (although, as it later became apparent, the accuracy of his prophesies benefitted a great deal from him being privy to circles that planned precisely such scenario for his adoptive homeland). Outcome of the crisis that resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia was Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II. Its ultimate resolution in Dayton in 1995 did not mean an end to the crisis, however. Indeed, Bosnia stumbled from one crisis to another in its post-war existence. The country was often perceived as being at the brink, or at pivotal crossroads, at various stages in its post-war existence. Frequency of crises labeled as ‘seminal’ or ‘turning points’ led one Western diplomat to observe recently – and only half-jokingly – that he is not worried of effects of world recession on B&H since ‘in this country nothing can succeed, not even the crisis.’
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Coming of Age: Bosnia is 18, and at Crossroads. Again
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