CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Jularic, Lidija |
|---|---|
| Title | Beyond Nation-State? Framing National Identities of Bosnia and Herzegovina into One State |
| Summary | This thesis addresses an issue of framing Bosnia and Herzegovina as a state where there exist three salient national ideologies. Here, I focus on the problem of accepting the same unit of identity in the state-building process among dominant political parties, and at the same time I take a look at a role of the "ethnic" factor in the international intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was at several occasions criticized for misunderstanding of the realities on the ground. Moreover, in this thesis I suggest that international interventions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, although being implemented in the different situations, first, in the form of stopping the war with the negotiation plans (Cutilheiro Plan, Vance-Owen Peace Plan…) and the Dayton Agreement, and later on through "state-building" project, are guided by the idea that society will have bigger possibility to achieve peace when territory is ruled with people of one identity, that is to say nation. Consequently, this concept of thinking in "conflict resolution" carries implications of creating a "nation-state," although inclusive in its nature, which on the other hand has been long rejected as an organizational principle in the state-making. Therefore, with this thesis I address more generally the problem of adequate grasping the diversity of identities in the international solutions to "ethnic conflicts." |
| Supervisor | Florian Bieber |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/jularic_lidija.pdf |
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