The truth is that the outcome of the war in Ukraine, in a certain variant, may influence the situation in Southeast Europe if that is indeed the strategic goal of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. However, in all variants Dodik would more likely be used and pay the political price, than achieve any benefit for the wider community which he claims to represent.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is entering a new era in which clinging to outdated paradigms and hoping that great-power geopolitics will bend to our will is no longer tenable. We must initiate serious consultations and strategic reflection now—any delay will not only cede the initiative but also risk having decisions about our future made without our involvement.
The history of political orientation is an archetypal Bosniak, Bosnian question. In this case, we consider archetypal to be that Jungian hypothetical construct which signifies a universal, inherited framework of all experience, intended to facilitate navigation in life-critical, crisis situations.
Serbia's foreign policy towards its neighbors, from the 1990s to the present, can be characterized by a dishonorable continuity, with only minor, negligible variations.
Saturday's the All-Serbian Assembly could be seen as another in a series of nationalist gatherings full of folkloristics and pathos. However, a closer analysis reveals that this event has much deeper geopolitical implications. It was not a mere show of the unity of the Serbian people, nor of the unity of the church, politics and conservative academic elite depicted in the SANU, but at its core ...
Serbia is at a national climax. The Declaration of the All-Serbian Assembly from June 9 of this year represents the culmination of its historical regression. Bolder commentators might assert that it is the peak of primordial madness since the fall of Slobodan Milošević. The Declaration does not explicitly announce new conflicts, unlike Milošević's declaration in 1989 at Gazimestan to his millio...
However, the upcoming vote in the UN General Assembly is not just a multilateral struggle in the realm of international law. This battle has largely been won in international courts through rulings from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Court of Justice.
Nearly 150 years have passed since the Berlin Congress, and the Balkans once again serve as a battleground for today's global powers or two political visions of the world.
The Balkans, oft-neglected, are a ripe prospect for Russia’s aspirations, and are becoming increasingly febrile and dangerous.
From the perspective of realpolitik, delaying and slowing down Euro-Atlantic integration causes immeasurable harm to its citizens. Any policy in BiH and the region that harbors utopian ideas that someone else will make a significant impact in these areas is on the wrong course.
