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We Will Always Have Paris: Croatia’s Struggles With Symbolic And Operative Constitutional Meaning

Once transported to Croatian constitutional law, the iconic line from Casablanca evokes more than the remembrance of a love lost. The French capital has recently been the figurative site of struggle over Croatian foreign policy, powers of the executive, and the role of the military in relation to both. Once the sitting president of France, … →

Reimagining Civil Resistance: From Balkan Streets to Legal Duty

Reimagining Civil Resistance: From Balkan Streets to Legal Duty Everything around us is moving, shaking, disrupting, trying to move walls and break barriers. The Western Balkans are one of the most seismically active regions in Europe, where the collision of major tectonic plates constantly shakes the ground. Yet the tremors I am concerned with here … →

The Polis and the Citizen: What Ancient Greek Political Thought Can – and Cannot – Teach Bosnia and Herzegovina About a Civic State

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the phrase „civic state“ rarely remains a neutral constitutional term for long. To some, it promises equal political status regardless of ethnic identity. To others, it conceals a majoritarian project that could weaken the safeguards of the constituent peoples. The disagreement is not merely about electoral engineering. It reflects a deeper … →