The Dayton Agreement, created by the 1995 agreement between Bosnian wartime leaders that ended the Bosnian war, was never meant to last. The Agreement affirmed peace and a single sovereign state known as Bosnia and Herzegovina composed of two parts: the largely Serb-populated Republika Srpska and mainly Croat-Bosniak-populated Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The system created was intended to be temporary, in place until a new constitution was agreed upon by the three

The Balkan Legacy Winston Churchill supposedly posited that the Balkans produced far too much history for it to be accurately consumed, largely echoing the typical “orientalism” rhetoric that Edward Said aptly pronounced as the ignorance many in the West have of anything the wrong side of Rome. Once more, Western nations have made a deep folly in not fully appreciating the precariousness of the peace following the Homeland War of the 1990s in the former Yugoslavia. Througho

Siniša Karan has been declared the winner of the recent snap elections in Republika Srpska, after long-standing leader Milorad Dodik was removed from office back in August. Dodik attempted to seriously undermine the Dayton Accords by denying rulings from the High Representative, Christian Schmidt, which is a direct violation of the negotiated peace. Under a dual agreement , Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has enjoyed its autonomy alongside Republika Srpska, until recently t

Dr. Vesna Skare Ozbolt, 10th Minister of Justice of Croatia (2003-2006) and Adviser to the President of Croatia (1991-1999) In 2024, the...