International studies, Vol. VII No. 1, 2007.
Review article
Cross-Border Televisions and Electronic Media Space Arrangement in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Smiljko Šagolj
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
This article is based on regulations of European conventions which guarantee every nation and minority their right to have electronic media and native language. The European Charter determines the obligation to establish and support the work of so-called cross-border televisions. Countries whose own minorities or parts of their nation which is constitutive and sovereign in other countries, have the right and obligation, together with the host countries to provide them with electronic media and TV channel in their native language. This right and obligation have ever been disabled and legally forbidden in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such processes and models of regulations put forward in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Dayton Agreement have served as an excuse and justification for a complete political and cultural unitarization of the country and unjustified division of the country into two entities, although it is a country of three sovereign nations.
Keywords
Bosnia and Herzegovina; cross-border television; media space; divided society; constitution; globalization
Hrčak ID:
290578
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2007.
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