20.500.12556/RUL-136300 Ethnicizing the EU's involvement in post-conflict societies the case of ontological insecurity in Republika Srpska The main aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on ontological security by empirically investigating how the European Union (EU), which is perceived as one of the most important actors that provides means and/or grounds for overcoming antagonisms through transformation of the ‘Self-Other’ dialectics, fails to become an agent of peace. Drawing on the case of Republika Srpska (RS), a political entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), we aim to understand how the EU’s post-conflict stabilization efforts, which, among others, presuppose the de-intensification of the antagonistic identity narratives, become entrapped in ethnopolitical narratives, and even ‘ethnicized’ by the ethnopolitical elite in RS. To answer these questions, we analyzed news articles at two critical junctures, namely the negotiations on the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (2005–2007) and the Butmir Process (2009), two of the most important EU-driven initiatives in post-conflict BiH. We find that those initiatives, which promised to make BiH more functional and stable, challenged the existing ethnopolitical narratives in BiH, particularly on the side of the ethnopolitical elite in RS. ontological security Republika Srpska ethnicization Butmir process true false true Angleški jezik Turški jezik Bosna in Hercegovina; Članek v reviji 2022-04-22 14:21:07 2022-04-22 14:21:09 2022-09-15 04:13:43 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 113-127 no. 73 Vol. 19 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova NiDoloceno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2022-04-09 327 1304-7310 10.33458/uidergisi.1094578 102719747 Kocan_Zupancic_UIK.pdf Kocan_Zupancic_UIK.pdf 1 6D1AC66D8BC073D3E9BAFC35A14124E7 a1c58ff0caa0a127c74d9c6c2e4249ce9a741f044a9e50ab14dcf39cf86cc76d c5efb08c-c236-11ec-8aca-00155dcfd717 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=155867 Fakulteta za družbene vede 0 0 0