Conference paper
WITHOUT THE “WORLD’S ETHOS” THE AUTHORITY STAYS “HARDEST VICE”!
Mile Lasić
; University of Mostar
Abstract
In “terra interior”, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as in its surroundings,
unnatural forms of democracy are imposed in the non-legal and empty states that have
defeated their citizens. In them are followed contradictory models of “nation-states”, an
illusion of overlapping territorial and national, unity of identities, while in the world there
are logics of transnational networking and equality of citizens of all created identities. Particularly
in BiH, one does not understand its own plurality of identities, and the logical necessity
of integrating collective rights into individual human rights and freedoms and then
caring for one another in every administrative unit. It is about the very essence of the new
liberalism and cultural sensibility through which it is operated in many multiethnic states
with indigenous identities and in the polyethnic communities with the so-called immigrant
identities on the formation of political communities of equal citizens of all identities. In
both are applied democratic methods of government, which include: hegemonic control;
arbitration (third party intervention); cantonization and/or federalization; and consociation
as an agreement power division. In BiH, it is not possible to apply the so-called experiences
of hegemonic control or equilibrium, no matter how much the three nations would
gladly play “hegemons”, so the paradigm of nonviolence is necessary in the thinking of detachment,
peculiarities and common public policies. Unfortunately, this is unlikely because
almost no one is thinking of the categories of “world ethos”, of morality in internal and
external politics, of the balances of the consociational and majority democracy, of institutional
equality, of national and civil equilibrium. This could be achieved through inter-ethnic
dialogues, not within national monologues, and with the necessary compromise, as sustainable
solutions cannot be achieved through “verbal warfare” and politics of conflict and
aggravation (containment policy) of mutually close identities in the cultural sense. And it
should be promptly stopped with the denying of the decisions of the European Court of
Human Rights in Strasbourg, the resolutions of the European Parliament and the messages
of European leaders about the need for “shared rule” and speak through one-voice on
behalf of BiH in relations with the EU and the world as a whole. In as much as they might
be small in numbers, perhaps Croats in BiH should first - wherever they are majority- show
that in BiH it is possible to create a “political community” of equal citizens of all co-nations
and citizens of all other identities. Maybe the others would then follow them?
Keywords
democracy; nation-state vs. the political community; the abolition of collective rights in individual human rights and freedoms; the management of differences; the new paradigm in thought and behaviour based on the world ethos; the alternative in the form of third mode.
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235267
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Publication date:
4.6.2018.
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