“Ethnicizing” the EU's Involvement in Post-conflict Societies: The Case of Ontological Insecurity in Republika Srpska

Faris KOČAN; Rok ZUPANČIČ

doi:https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1094578

Makale detayları

“Ethnicizing” the EU's Involvement in Post-conflict Societies: The Case of Ontological Insecurity in Republika Srpska

Yazarlar:

Faris KOČAN | Rok ZUPANČIČ

Yayıncı:

Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi

Ana Başlıklar:

Siyaset Bilimi

Dergi:

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 2022 Vol.19 Issue 73, pp.117-131

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2022

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000746816

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

1304-7175

pISSN:

1304-7310

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1094578

Özet:

 

The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on ontological security by empirically investigating how the European Union (EU), which is perceived as one of the most important actors that provides means and/ or grounds for overcoming antagonisms through transformation of the ‘Self-Other’ dialectics, fails to become an agent of peace. Drawing on the case of Republika Srpska (RS), a political entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), we aim to understand how the EU’s post-conflict stabilization efforts, which, among others, presuppose the de-intensification of the antagonistic identity narratives, become entrapped in ethnopolitical narratives, and even ‘ethnicized’ by the ethnopolitical elite in RS. To answer these questions, we analyzed news articles at two critical junctures, namely the negotiations on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (2005–2007) and the Butmir Process (2009), two of the most important EU-driven initiatives in post-conflict BiH. We find that those initiatives, which promised to make BiH more functional and stable, challenged the existing ethnopolitical narratives in BiH, particularly on the side of the ethnopolitical elite in RS.

Makale detayları

“Ethnicizing” the EU's Involvement in Post-conflict Societies: The Case of Ontological Insecurity in Republika Srpska

Yazarlar: Faris KOČAN | Rok ZUPANČIČ

Yayıncı: Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi

Ana Başlıklar: Siyaset Bilimi

Dergi: Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 2022 Vol.19 Issue 73, pp.117-131

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 4/2022

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000746816

Sıklık: Aylık

eISSN: 1304-7175

pISSN: 1304-7310

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1094578

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Faris KOČAN | Rok ZUPANČIČ

Yayıncı:

Uluslararası İlişkiler Konseyi Derneği İktisadi İşletmesi

Ana Başlıklar:

Siyaset Bilimi

Dergi:

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi 2022 Vol.19 Issue 73, pp.117-131

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2022

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000746816

Sıklık:

Aylık

eISSN:

1304-7175

pISSN:

1304-7310

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33458/uidergisi.1094578