Ranko Mirić

 

PROSTORNO-FUNKCIONALNA ANALIZA SAVREMENOG POLITIÄŒKO-TERITORIJALNOG USTROJA FEDERACIJE BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE: KANTONIZACIJA ILI REGIONALIZACIJA

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2008.2.651

UDC: 913:32(497.6)

  

Abstract: Contemporary organisation of Bosnia and Herzegovina from the aspect of its political-territorial and administrative division in the post-Dayton period, represents a specificity in global terms. Complexity of its system proved to be one of the most important limiting factors of social-economic development and integration into the modern European and world processes. 14 years after signing of Washington Agreement, which preceded constituing of Fedration of Bosnia and Herzegovina as one of the entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, there are obviously many problems that represent aggravating circumstances for its faster and better development. One of them is multileveled political-territorial division followed by a very complex administrative-political system. This paper gives some of the spatial-functional characteristics of such system and compares them with the principles on which the area of the larger BiH entitiy has been divided into cantons in accordance with the Constitution of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the basis of complex spatial-functional analysis, and in the light of European integration processes, potential directions for reorganization have been pointed out, which would result in adequate and rational regionalisation, as a precondition for such processes at the level of state of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Keywords: political-territorial organisation, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cantonisation, Washington Agreement, regionalisation. 

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