Review article

Continuities and Discontinuities: the Constitutional and Political Development of Bosnia and Herzegovina to 1990

Dalibor Čepulo ; Zagreb Law School, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Constitutional and political history of Bosnia-Herzegovina clearly shows that it has lost its statehood during 15th century. Since then it was always part of large state entities and all important political decision were made outside Bosnia-Herzegovina. It only regained some elements of statehood during World War II as a federal unit of future socialist Yugoslavia. Such development made it unable to function as an efficient and independent political unit after it declared independence in 1992.

Keywords

Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H); government organization; statehood; cultural and administrative identity; federalization; Ottoman Empire relations with B-H; Austro-Hungarian relations with B-H; Muslims; Croats; Serbs

Hrčak ID:

103329

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/103329

Publication date:

28.12.2003.

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