https://znetwork.org/author/vuk-bacanovic/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:07:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/vuk-bacanovic/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-position-of-the-serbian-people-in-a-multipolar-world-breaking-with-idols-rebuilding-dignity/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-position-of-the-serbian-people-in-a-multipolar-world-breaking-with-idols-rebuilding-dignity/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:07:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292570 If we take a bird’s-eye view of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro—where the largest share of the Serbian people lives today—we see a strikingly similar structure: three small economies neatly integrated into a semi-peripheral role—stable enough to service debt and function as markets, yet insufficiently developed for people to live off their own work [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-position-of-the-serbian-people-in-a-multipolar-world-breaking-with-idols-rebuilding-dignity/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumpist-geopolitics-in-western-balkans-how-a-heritage-ideologue-sells-third-entity-in-bosnia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumpist-geopolitics-in-western-balkans-how-a-heritage-ideologue-sells-third-entity-in-bosnia/#respond Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292432 Bosnia and Herzegovina is usually introduced to foreign readers as a “post-war success story” held together by the 1995 Dayton Peace Agreement — a fragile compromise that ended the bloodshed by freezing the country into a constitutional maze. Two entities, three “constituent peoples,” a rotating tripartite Presidency, layers of vetoes and international supervision: Dayton didn’t [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumpist-geopolitics-in-western-balkans-how-a-heritage-ideologue-sells-third-entity-in-bosnia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whose-bosnia-whose-name-identity-engineering-in-a-dayton-protectorate/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whose-bosnia-whose-name-identity-engineering-in-a-dayton-protectorate/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:11:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291900 In recent times in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there has emerged, at once somewhat timidly and somewhat aggressively, an initiative to promote the national designation “Bosanac” (“Bosnian”) and, in the name of a supposedly broader, civic or supranational identity, to push into the background or at least relativize the name “Bošnjak” (“Bosniak”). A number of intellectuals [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whose-bosnia-whose-name-identity-engineering-in-a-dayton-protectorate/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:53:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291145 In late October 2025, in the Zabjelo district of Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, a serious stabbing incident triggered a wave of public unrest. A Montenegrin man was wounded after an altercation involving foreign nationals, initially reported to include Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens. Authorities later detained dozens of Turkish- and Azerbaijani-nationals and suspended the visa-free [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rewriting-jasenovac-the-eus-quiet-tolerance-of-revisionism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rewriting-jasenovac-the-eus-quiet-tolerance-of-revisionism/#respond Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:36:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290726 In the Croatian Parliament, a gathering was held of charlatans and obscurantists without a single scholarly reference—individuals whose trade truly demands a new term, and the most fitting one, it seems to me, would be necromisia. For to call Igor Vukić, Nikola Banić, Pero Šola, and the organizers of their assembly—the official bodies of the Republic [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rewriting-jasenovac-the-eus-quiet-tolerance-of-revisionism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dayton-bosnia-and-the-future-that-never-arrived/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dayton-bosnia-and-the-future-that-never-arrived/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:04:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290380 Three decades after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to function as the world’s most elaborate political paradox: a state whose very survival depends on its permanent dysfunction. Conceived in the winter of 1995 as a ceasefire dressed up as a constitution, Dayton created two entities (Republika Srpska and the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dayton-bosnia-and-the-future-that-never-arrived/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hijacking-student-protests-milo-lompar-and-the-rewriting-of-serbias-national-narrative/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hijacking-student-protests-milo-lompar-and-the-rewriting-of-serbias-national-narrative/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286672 The Student Blockade Movement in Serbia emerged in the midst of a broader student, secondary school, and civic uprising, which erupted in response to the collapse of the railway station canopy in Novi Sad—a tragedy that claimed the lives of 16 people. This catastrophe was the direct result of a botched reconstruction project carried out [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hijacking-student-protests-milo-lompar-and-the-rewriting-of-serbias-national-narrative/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-aesopian-code-to-open-ustasa-salutes-croatias-shift-to-nationalist-extremism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-aesopian-code-to-open-ustasa-salutes-croatias-shift-to-nationalist-extremism/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:07:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286131 The concert held by Croatian far-right pop singer Marko Perković – Thompson on July 5 at the Zagreb Hippodrome, which gathered approximately half a million people who, at the singer’s urging, chanted the Croatian fascist salute “Za dom spremni” (“Ready for the Homeland”), came as no surprise to researchers tracking the trends not only within [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-aesopian-code-to-open-ustasa-salutes-croatias-shift-to-nationalist-extremism/feed/ 1