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3232The Flynn–Kabiri Axis: How Bosnia Is Sold Piece by Piece
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/#respondFri, 08 May 2026 18:58:49 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297870For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a uniquely constrained post-war framework established by the Dayton Peace Agreement, under which a powerful international authority—embodied in the Office of the High Representative—retains the ability to impose laws and dismiss elected officials. While [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-flynn-kabiri-axis-how-bosnia-is-sold-piece-by-piece/feed/0Why Antisemitism Obscures the Real Architecture of Power
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-antisemitism-obscures-the-real-architecture-of-power/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-antisemitism-obscures-the-real-architecture-of-power/#respondTue, 05 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297755One of the most repellent forms of that old-new popular thinking—now once again spreading with mounting intensity across Western societies since the genocidal devastation of Gaza and the American-Israeli escalation toward Iran—is the stale, mildew-ridden yet ever-ready conclusion: that, finally, the dehumanization of the Jews has been vindicated. That the racist phantasmagoria of Jews as [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-antisemitism-obscures-the-real-architecture-of-power/feed/0From the Croatian Spring of the 1970s to New Projections of a Croatian Entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-croatian-spring-of-the-1970s-to-new-projections-of-a-croatian-entity-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-croatian-spring-of-the-1970s-to-new-projections-of-a-croatian-entity-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/#respondWed, 29 Apr 2026 17:31:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297481At the recently held “TradFest” in Zagreb—where, in the long-established manner of Croatian nationalism, ideas are first declared necessary and only afterwards explained—the issue of the so-called third Croatian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina assumed its most explicit form to date. Although the gathering had no institutional character and adopted no formal conclusions, the very [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-the-croatian-spring-of-the-1970s-to-new-projections-of-a-croatian-entity-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/feed/0Jasenovac on the Serbian Political Market – The Anatomy of a Moral Collapse
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jasenovac-on-the-serbian-political-market-the-anatomy-of-a-moral-collapse/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jasenovac-on-the-serbian-political-market-the-anatomy-of-a-moral-collapse/#respondWed, 22 Apr 2026 17:45:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1297222There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker post-Yugoslav era—but still manage to shock by the coldness with which they are delivered, as if they were stating something entirely self-evident. One such example can be found in an interview given by [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/jasenovac-on-the-serbian-political-market-the-anatomy-of-a-moral-collapse/feed/0The Empire of Cannibals
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-empire-of-cannibals/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-empire-of-cannibals/#commentsTue, 07 Apr 2026 16:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296607One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the faults of an entire system on a single individual. Remove that individual, cast him out like some medieval demon, and reality, we are told, will correct itself. The result is a kind of [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-empire-of-cannibals/feed/2Children, Power, and Hypocrisy: Sarajevo’s Pilgrimage to Washington
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-power-and-hypocrisy-sarajevos-pilgrimage-to-washington/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-power-and-hypocrisy-sarajevos-pilgrimage-to-washington/#respondFri, 27 Mar 2026 17:34:34 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1296213A wave of public outrage swept through Sarajevo following the two-day “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” held on March 24–25, 2026 and organized by Melania Trump. The event, staged first at the State Department and then at the White House, was presented – with no shortage of solemn rhetoric – as the inaugural [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/children-power-and-hypocrisy-sarajevos-pilgrimage-to-washington/feed/0Armageddon for Beginners — Geopolitics Directed by Trump’s Global and Balkan Marionettes
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armageddon-for-beginners-geopolitics-directed-by-trumps-global-and-balkan-marionettes/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armageddon-for-beginners-geopolitics-directed-by-trumps-global-and-balkan-marionettes/#respondFri, 06 Mar 2026 15:22:31 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295507To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side by side on an airplane flying from Moscow to Washington. The American turns to the Russian and says: “I must admit, your state propaganda is truly impressive.” The Soviet smiles, thanks him for the compliment, [...]]]>https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/armageddon-for-beginners-geopolitics-directed-by-trumps-global-and-balkan-marionettes/feed/0The 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-position-of-the-serbian-people-in-a-multipolar-world-breaking-with-idols-rebuilding-dignity/#respondSat, 20 Dec 2025 17:07:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292570If 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/0Trumpist 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumpist-geopolitics-in-western-balkans-how-a-heritage-ideologue-sells-third-entity-in-bosnia/#respondTue, 16 Dec 2025 17:01:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292432Bosnia 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/0Whose Bosnia, Whose Name? Identity Engineering in a Dayton Protectorate
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/#respondWed, 03 Dec 2025 19:11:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291900In 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/0The 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/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-return-of-the-turk-identity-memory-and-the-politics-of-fear-in-montenegro/#commentsWed, 12 Nov 2025 17:53:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291145In 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/1Rewriting Jasenovac: The EU’s Quiet Tolerance of Revisionism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rewriting-jasenovac-the-eus-quiet-tolerance-of-revisionism/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rewriting-jasenovac-the-eus-quiet-tolerance-of-revisionism/#respondSat, 01 Nov 2025 13:36:34 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290726In 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/0Dayton Bosnia and the Future That Never Arrived
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dayton-bosnia-and-the-future-that-never-arrived/
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dayton-bosnia-and-the-future-that-never-arrived/#respondThu, 23 Oct 2025 19:04:15 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290380Three 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/0Hijacking Student Protests: Milo Lompar and the Rewriting of Serbia’s National Narrative
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/#respondMon, 28 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286672The 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/0From Aesopian Code to Open Ustaša Salutes: Croatia’s Shift to Nationalist Extremism
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/#commentsSun, 13 Jul 2025 15:07:25 +0000https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286131The 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
For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a uniquely constrained post-war framework established by the Dayton Peace Agreement, under which a powerful international authority—embodied in the Office of the High Representative—retains the ability to impose laws and dismiss elected officials. While [...]]]>
One of the most repellent forms of that old-new popular thinking—now once again spreading with mounting intensity across Western societies since the genocidal devastation of Gaza and the American-Israeli escalation toward Iran—is the stale, mildew-ridden yet ever-ready conclusion: that, finally, the dehumanization of the Jews has been vindicated. That the racist phantasmagoria of Jews as [...]]]>
At the recently held “TradFest” in Zagreb—where, in the long-established manner of Croatian nationalism, ideas are first declared necessary and only afterwards explained—the issue of the so-called third Croatian entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina assumed its most explicit form to date. Although the gathering had no institutional character and adopted no formal conclusions, the very [...]]]>
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker post-Yugoslav era—but still manage to shock by the coldness with which they are delivered, as if they were stating something entirely self-evident. One such example can be found in an interview given by [...]]]>
One of the most widespread forms of intellectual laziness—still sold globally as a mark of moral sophistication—is the tendency to place the faults of an entire system on a single individual. Remove that individual, cast him out like some medieval demon, and reality, we are told, will correct itself. The result is a kind of [...]]]>
A wave of public outrage swept through Sarajevo following the two-day “Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit,” held on March 24–25, 2026 and organized by Melania Trump. The event, staged first at the State Department and then at the White House, was presented – with no shortage of solemn rhetoric – as the inaugural [...]]]>
To begin with, let me recount an old Soviet, Cold War–era joke about America. A Russian and an American are seated side by side on an airplane flying from Moscow to Washington. The American turns to the Russian and says: “I must admit, your state propaganda is truly impressive.” The Soviet smiles, thanks him for the compliment, [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>
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 [...]]]>