ESI Brainstorming Sarajevo

*Gerald Knaus
Our objective is to understand Bosnian society today. The most basic issue is: what do Bosnians live off today? It's a question that Bosnian political elites, administrations and governments find difficult to answer. Given the depth of the social and economic crisis, we shouldn't be surprised to find that they are struggling to put together a credible policy response.

We need to need to describe the problems of government in Bosnia in a way that doesn't use this accusatory language of "the nationalists," "the communists," or "the thieves," or "the corrupt elite."

We are trying to understand these twin Bosnian problems, and how they interact: the crisis of the economy and its impact on society; and the weakness of the policy process and public institutions. Between them, they create an enormous temptation for the international community to step in and try to solve the problems on behalf of the Bosnians.

And this creates a vicious circle, and this is what we need to begin to grasp analytically, but also show how one might be able to break out of the vicious circle, so that Bosnia could begin to be seen and treated like any other post-socialist European country, and to receive the type of assistance it needs.

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• Bosnia
• ESI
• Knaus
• European
• Stability
• Initiative

[aviomaster]

-- Bosnians think when they enter EU , they will get good jobs and everything else .

But they do not know what is behind the corner NOTHING .

[tarce604]

Yes its such a frustrating issue because of its simplicity. The issue could be resolved over night if they stopped introducing selective democracy. If this entity based system is so good then the whole world should do implement it also.

[Almir4u]

this guy is telling the truth and knows something for sure

i agree with him bosnia is part of europe and it needs to be recognized as one