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

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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 … →

External militant democracy: The case of Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Imagine a politician winning a democratic election. He/She enters office with a mandate from thousands of voters, only to discover that an unelected official can remove him from office, invalidate laws adopted by parliament, and effectively reshape the constitutional framework within which he operates. In most constitutional democracies, such a scenario would appear inconceivable. In … →

Two Recent Strasbourg Judgments Against Bosnia and Herzegovina: Extending the Prohibition of Ethnic Exclusion in Access to Public Office

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Introduction The judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights on 3 February 2026 in Begić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Begić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (No 2) represent another important development in the Court’s anti-discrimination jurisprudence concerning the constitutional order of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In both cases, the Court found a violation of … →