Protection of “Vital National Interest” and Ethnoreligious Conflict: Western Balkan’s Unethical Political Economy, with an Emphasis on Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

The paper presents a theoretical, analytical, and ethical examination of B&H political economy, Constitutional "protection of vital national interests," and its effects on human security socioeconomic conditions. The phenomenon of vital national interest and a theoretical and practical question focused on a constitutionally conditioned political point of view, not on economic, human security, legislative, peace & conflict dynamics, and normative framework. The paper argues that structurally manipulative and nepotistic ethnopolitical processes and the idiom "protection of vital national interests" demonstrate the institutionalization of post-war ethnoreligious conflict. It reduces the rule of law framework, the country's integrity, sociopolitical, economic, and critical human security progression. The ethnoreligious conflict of "vital national interest" undermines the country's economic system. The narrative of protecting "vital national interests" is the ethnopolitical elites' manipulative instrumentalization and interest that has risen above the state and used for personal objectives. In a "constitutively" manner, the ethnopolitical arrangement is reduced to a struggle over territory. It directly territorializes and divides B&H into ethnoreligious areas. Contemporary Machiavellians use intrigue and manipulation to gain or retain power. It has a character of more deceptive than violent behavior. The Balkan-B&H demonstrates Maciavelism more profoundly than Machiavelli's authentic perspective. constructive public administration. fundamental life how The paper presents a theoretical, analytical, and ethical examination of B&H (ethno)political economy, Constitutional "protection of vital national interests," and its effects on human security socioeconomic conditions. The position of political/economic nepotism, systemic corruption, and patronage on political economy in Western Balkans with a significant emphasis on Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H) and citizens' socioeconomics and human security are not in-depth researched. The phenomenon of vital national interest and a theoretical and practical question focused on a constitutionally conditioned political point of view, not on economic, human security, legislative, peace & conflict dynamics, and normative framework. The paper investigates the Constitutional framework (B&H and Entities) of ethnopolitical/ethnoreligious conflict of national interests, the rule of law, and its references to actual sociopolitics and economics. This paper argues that structurally manipulative and nepotistic ethnopolitical/ethnoreligious processes and the idiom "protection of vital national interests" demonstrate the institutionalization of post-war ethnoreligious conflict. It reduces the rule of law framework, the country's integrity, sociopolitical, economic, and critical human security progression. Moreover, examining these sociopolitical processes in the post-socialist Yugoslav countries aims to determine normative solutions - the example of B&H.