Decentralization as an Effective Tool of State-Building? The Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lana Srzić
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
State Building

Discursive democracy and the challenge of state building in divided societies: reckoning with symbolic capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Ivie ◽  
Timothy William Waters
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
State Building ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Divided Societies ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Discursive Democracy ◽  
Political Communities

Current approaches to democratic state building place serious conceptual limits on policy options. A democratic future for Bosnia's people will require far more searching engagement with identity formation and its politicization than reform efforts have so far contemplated. Theories of discursive democracy illuminate how this might be possible. We deploy the discursive idea of symbolic capital to show how one might identify the lines along which people in Bosnia could constitute meaningful, internally legitimated political communities - or that would indicate the experiment was not worth attempting. Unless advocates of democratic state building can articulate, rather than assume, a sufficiency of common ground among the populations’ multiple, overlapping and conflicting identities, they may have to revert to the default of separate political communities.

Rethinking Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-coloniality

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Majstorović ◽  
Zoran Vučkovac
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
State Building ◽  
International Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This paper investigates politico-media discourses of the international community revolving for the last few decades around the process of Europeanization in Bosnia and Herzegovina from its Dayton inception until 2015. We first explain the contours of the BiH context and then use a critical discourse analysis to assess the data collected between 1997 and 2015 drawn from a variety of textual resources such as mainstream newspapers, online media, and international community websites to explain the main trends of the Europeanization discourse in the country. Grounding our analysis within the postcolonial theory and post-communist studies, we critically examine the post-1996 peace and state building as well as Europeanization processes in BiH with respect to signs of postcolonial condition including perpetual transition and a state of exception.

Former Yugoslavia

2021 ◽  
pp. 901-907
Author(s):  
Tamara Popic ◽  
Natalija Perišić
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Social Insurance ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
State Building ◽  
Social Insurance System ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Universal Healthcare ◽  
The Common ◽  
Kingdom Of Yugoslavia

This chapter traces the common past of the healthcare systems of seven countries that formerly were part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. Due to their common state histories, these countries witnessed similar health policy developments, marked by the introduction of a social insurance system under the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and establishment of universal healthcare during the communist period. After the break-up of the SFRY in 1992, the countries departed on independent policy trajectories, which were protracted and disrupted by conflicts over state-building and nationalism, and in some countries also by civil war.

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