December 5, 2025 Submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee (the “Committee”) Chairman, Ranking Member, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for the opportunity to submit this statement for the record in response to several points raised during the Committee’s December 2, 2025 Western Balkans Hearing (the “Hearing”), particularly those presented by Mr. Max Primorac. While we appreciate the […]
BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA IN THE LIGHT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Debates held at gatherings to discuss the political situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina all too often involve abstract theoretical reflection, without taking into consideration the reasons the country is stuck in an impasse from which it can neither move ahead nor go back. Real understanding and an objective and informed view […]
Bosnia is a name for a model of community life shared by the inheritors of different holy traditions. Its history bears witness to efforts to formalize this model in contemporary modes of thought. In an earlier period––the time of the Bosnian Bans and Kings––this model expressed itself in the effort to justify and establish communal life between different Christian communities. […]
The signing of the Dayton Accords should have provided the majority of the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the hoped-for return of prewar values. The Dayton Accords ended the bloody war in Bosnia and Herzegovina: this was without a doubt its only contribution. But those same people who started the war and conducted it were also the Dayton Accords […]
Today, global society is in the stage of searching for a model of social cohabitation. The problem lies in the fact that global societies have constructed their identities through culture and religion and therefore the process of cohabitation with others appears only as a process of assimilation. The solution to this difficulty is usually found in a compromise that is […]
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a meeting place of cultures, civilisations, and peoples whose existence is derived from their religions and largely shaped by them. For this reason, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a meeting place of religions. Relations between religions are reflected in all aspects of social life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. If Hans Kung’s maxim that there is no peace […]
Bosnian Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS) 2411 Newburg Rd. Louisville, KY 40205 United States info@bhaaas.org | aterzich@iu.edu (502) 379-7304 December 14, 2025 The Honorable Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State The Honorable James E. Risch, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate The Honorable Brian Mast, Chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee, […]
