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.
Rather than acknowledging responsibility for the carnage, ultra-nationalist Republika Srpska politicians and their acolytes have spent the past twenty-six years denying that what took place at Srebrenica constituted a genocide and instead are shamelessly fabricating an alternate—and false –scenario.
So we see Poland and Turkey taking on greater significance as a result of the war, and China losing significance. There are many other reverberations. I chose these three, if it is not already obvious, because in my book “The Next 100 Years” I predicted the rise of Poland and Turkey and the decline of China.
Democratic values were already under threat around the world before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Now we need to rekindle the spirit of 1989.
Beginning in 1995, after the Dayton Accords ended the Bosnian War, we made an agreement to add Russian troops to the peacekeeping forces that NATO had on the ground in Bosnia. In 1997, we supported the NATO-Russia Founding Act, which gave Russia a voice but not a veto in NATO affairs, and supported Russia’s entry to the G7, making it the G8. In 1999, at the end of the Kosovo conflict, Secretary...
It is quite certain that the greatest benefit from technological recombination and reverse transfer will be reaped by developing countries, i.e., those countries that enjoy cultural influences of both the West and the East, Bosnia and Herzegovina being one of them. The military and strategic success of brave and clever people of Ukraine is a practical example to support this claim.
However, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s instability is far more complex than the crisis in Ukraine for one structural reason: It is not in Russia’s near abroad but in the European underbelly, which presents both an opportunity and a threat for all opposing sides at the local, regional and international level.
In the future, the European Union and NATO will need to consolidate their internal ranks and show greater unity. The next step is to integrate the remaining countries in the Balkans into NATO and the European Union, with Bosnia and Herzegovina as the central country for regional stability.
There are interesting data on attack planes and helicopters, where the former FRY retains the right to 155 planes and 53 helicopters, 850 armored combat vehicles, 3750 artillery weapons, while for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Croatia, there’s a symmetry of the previously mentioned 410 battle tanks, 340 armored combat vehicles, 1,500 artillery weapons, 62 fighter jets and 21 attack...
As for the state property, i.e., ownership, it is clear that it covers the entire state territory, i.e., state land, public goods, mines, oil fields, mountains, rivers, road, rail, sea and air transport, etc. The legal holder of this entire state property, i.e. the territory, is the state, and municipalities are only the holders of the right of use.
