Comment: Bosnia Cannot Disintegrate Without Violence

balkan insight

04 Apr 2011 / 09:04

Those who maintain that the country can fall apart without serious interethnic conflict are peddling dangerous ideas.

Kurt BassuenerSarajevo

Matthew Parish’s comment piece for Balkan Insight (“Croat Crisis Pushed Bosnia Toward Endgame,”) argues that Bosnia and Herzegovina’s structural and political dysfunction has entered a terminal phase due to “irreversible” international inattention, among other contributing factors. His advice is that “the Serbs and Croats should be left to go their own ways,” leaving an “autonomous Bosniak territory” as a rump state. ...more...

Kurt Bassuener is a Senior Associate of the Democratization Policy Council based in Sarajevo. Balkan Insight is BIRN's online publication.

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