SHAPING OF INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO UNITARY BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Mrduljaš Saša (Znanstveni suradnik Instituta društvenih znanosti „Ivo Pilar” – centar Split), sasa.mrduljas@pilar.hr

In early 1992, the impossibility to bring into accord the political goals of the Croats, Serbs and Muslims/Bosniaks in Bosnia Herzegovina brought the international community to arbitrary and co-creation positions within the context of finding a solution for this state. Initially, the international community had regarded that for that republic and the harmonisation of relations among its nations the most suitable was a complex, (con)federal system, what was manifested in the Cutillero plan. It was considered as such to the extent that the adoption of the Cutillero was one of the conditions for its international recognition. However, soon after the outbreak of war in April 1992 the international community changed its opinion considering that it was only the unitary model of organisation of BH that was ethnically justifiable and functional. Therefore, it started to act in that direction. Although the war conditions were not suitable for such form of acting, what was finally manifested in the establishment of „Dayton“ BH, the support to unitarisation will keep on being a constant in the approach of the international community to this country. Based on what has been previously said, the paper analyses the circumstances that during 1992 led to the international support to unitarisation of BH as well as the reflection of this support on the relations among nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Keywords: international organisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croats, Serbs, Muslims/Bosniaks, ethnic relations, international community