Vrlo dug tekst, ali odlična analiza. Ako ništa, vrijedi iz njega pročitati dio “Peace –and Strife– at Dayton”:
>It is an understanding of the three-way nature of the Bosnian war, then, that shaped Holbrooke’s approach to Dayton.
>Surveying the increasingly brutal and intractable Bosnian conflict, the first Western step was to compel the Croat HVO and the Bosniak ARBiH to cease their internecine conflict, and focus their united energies instead on the rampant VRS. Subsequently, US airstrikes and a successful 1995 offensive by the Croatian government, the effects of which allowed for the liberatio of the encircled Bosniak Bihać pocket, provided the necessary conditions under which which the Bosniak-Croat coalition was able to break Bosnian-Serb sieges, curtail Bosnian-Serb offensives, and even retake territory previously lost.
>Enter Dayton.
>Following Ross’s rules, the framework of Dayton ensures that none of the three parties should receive quite what it desired. Bosnian-Serbs had to accept remaining within the state of Bosnia, in return for receiving an autonomous sub-state “entity”–the “Republika Srpska” (RS)–located on slightly less than half of Bosnian territory. Meanwhile, Bosniaks who had hoped to be able to dominate the future of BiH in virtue of their demographic numbers, instead had to accept a dominant place in a Bosniak-Croat entity–the “Federation”–located on slightly more than half of Bosnian territory. Finally, the Bosnian-Croats who had hoped to build their own independent or autonomous entity (the “Republika Herceg Bosna”) were compelled to abandon these hopes in return for an ensured political position alongside the Bosniaks in the “Federation”.
>As a capstone to this three-way compromise, the central political concept of the Dayton peace is that of the three “constituent peoples” (enshrined in Annex IV of the treaty). While the notion may sound initially foreign, the fundamental idea is both natural and politically profound. Since the Bosnian war was premised on each ethnic group’s fear of being excluded from the identity and policy-making heart of the Bosnian state, the country’s electoral system should rule out such exclusion out and instead ensure each group’s significant fundamental moral status as a “constituent” of the Bosnian body politic.
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Vrlo dug tekst, ali odlična analiza. Ako ništa, vrijedi iz njega pročitati dio “Peace –and Strife– at Dayton”:
>It is an understanding of the three-way nature of the Bosnian war, then, that shaped Holbrooke’s approach to Dayton.
>Surveying the increasingly brutal and intractable Bosnian conflict, the first Western step was to compel the Croat HVO and the Bosniak ARBiH to cease their internecine conflict, and focus their united energies instead on the rampant VRS. Subsequently, US airstrikes and a successful 1995 offensive by the Croatian government, the effects of which allowed for the liberatio of the encircled Bosniak Bihać pocket, provided the necessary conditions under which which the Bosniak-Croat coalition was able to break Bosnian-Serb sieges, curtail Bosnian-Serb offensives, and even retake territory previously lost.
>Enter Dayton.
>Following Ross’s rules, the framework of Dayton ensures that none of the three parties should receive quite what it desired. Bosnian-Serbs had to accept remaining within the state of Bosnia, in return for receiving an autonomous sub-state “entity”–the “Republika Srpska” (RS)–located on slightly less than half of Bosnian territory. Meanwhile, Bosniaks who had hoped to be able to dominate the future of BiH in virtue of their demographic numbers, instead had to accept a dominant place in a Bosniak-Croat entity–the “Federation”–located on slightly more than half of Bosnian territory. Finally, the Bosnian-Croats who had hoped to build their own independent or autonomous entity (the “Republika Herceg Bosna”) were compelled to abandon these hopes in return for an ensured political position alongside the Bosniaks in the “Federation”.
>As a capstone to this three-way compromise, the central political concept of the Dayton peace is that of the three “constituent peoples” (enshrined in Annex IV of the treaty). While the notion may sound initially foreign, the fundamental idea is both natural and politically profound. Since the Bosnian war was premised on each ethnic group’s fear of being excluded from the identity and policy-making heart of the Bosnian state, the country’s electoral system should rule out such exclusion out and instead ensure each group’s significant fundamental moral status as a “constituent” of the Bosnian body politic.
Više kao Why the west needs to get the fuck out of the balkans, šta god taknu sjebu