Browsing by Subject "Bosnia and Herzegovina"

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Architecture of sovereignty: Bosnian constitutional crisis, the Sarajevo Town Hall, and the Mêlée
(Springer Netherlands, 2016-04) Cirkovic, E.
This paper addresses the processes by which the international community intervened and participated in the defining of Bosnian identity and the corresponding constitutional framework, as well as the continuous paradoxical tension between the ethnic local and claims to universalism of supranational legal norms. In particular, the 1995 Constitution and the architecture of its sovereignty have been contested through provisions of the European Convention of Human Rights. The analysis is further supported by the discussion of the architectonic structure of the Town Hall/National Library in Sarajevo that has had an important constitutional role since the collapse of the Ottoman period. The paper thus focuses on two sites for construction/deconstruction of Bosnian sovereignty: the constitutional framework and the more concretely visible architectural symbol of the Town Hall/National Library. This importance of a visual and spatial approach to Bosnian realities is carried further by the 1993 ‘Eulogy’ that Jean-Luc Nancy wrote for Sarajevo, as a site of the Mêlée.
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Bosna Savaşı'na katılan Türk gönüllüler
(Bilkent University, 2018) Küçükkahveci, Eda Nur; Kalın, Dilruba Zeynep; Altınyazar, Esad Burak; Taşkafa, İsmail Serdar; Çiftçi, Ömer Selim
Yugoslavya’nın dağılmasını takiben 1992-1995 yılları arasında meydana gelen Bosna Savaşı’nda Sırpların Boşnaklara karşı saldırılarının korkutucu boyutlara ulaşmasının bir sonucu olarak savaşın ve soykırımın etkilerini azaltmak için dünyanın çeşitli yerlerinden gönüllüler Bosna-Hersek’e giderek halkın yardımına koşmuştur. Bu makalede savaş döneminde Bosna-Hersek’e giden Türk gönüllülerin durumu; Türk Hükümetinin ve halkının tutumu, Bosna-Hersek’e giden Türk gönüllüler ve Türklerin etkileri olmak üzere üç ana başlıkta incelenmiştir.
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Hybrid political orders: the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
(2021-06) Çobanoğlu, Ecenaz
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, once viewed as a successful example of peaceful, multi-ethnic state, turned into a site of devastating wars in the early-1990s. Among these wars that resulted in the country’s painful disintegration, the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina ended mainly with international mediation. The Dayton Peace Agreement signed in 1995 ended armed clashes. The Dayton Agreement, at the same time, provided the blueprint for establishing new sets of political and administrative structures as the basis of building the social conditions of durable peace. Preserving and enhancing the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina constituted a significant aspect of the construction of the new structures envisioned in the Dayton Agreement. The emerging political order in Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to some peacebuilding scholars, represents a hybrid structure where internationally introduced liberal democratic institutions, norms and practices are combined with existing traditional structures. In this thesis, I examine the roots of this hybrid political order in post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina from the perspective of the “local turn in peacebuilding” scholarship that is premised on the ‘hybridity’ approach. I investigate the current conditions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and hybridity patterns in the current political and societal order. Then, I investigate the periods in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the rule of the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I study the similarities of both historical periods with the current conditions. Thus, in this thesis, I tried to investigate the continuities in different historical periods of time and found that hybrid patterns in current conditions have their roots in the past, namely in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian periods.