Was history ever on holiday? The Europe of Sarajevo over 100 years: from WW1 to www

Anis Bajrektarevic

SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe, 2014, vol. 17, issue 1, 27-47

Abstract: Some twenty years ago, genocide was taking place just a one-hour flight from Brussels: assassination of a very different kind from that of 1914 enveloped Sarajevo. Bosnia (and the Union of different peoples – Yugoslavia) was being turned into a years-long slaughterhouse; meanwhile, the Maastricht dream was unifying the Westphalian world of the Old Continent. Two decades later, Atlantic Europe is a political powerhouse (with two of the three European nuclear powers and two of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council), central Europe is an economic powerhouse, Russian-speaking Europe is an energy powerhouse, Scandinavian Europe is a bit of all that, and eastern Europe is none of it. As soon as serious security challenges emerge, the component parts of true, historic Europe resurface. Formerly in Iraq (with the exception of France) and now with Sudan, Mali and Syria, central Europe is hesitant to act, Atlantic Europe is eager, Scandinavian Europe is absent, eastern Europe is on a bandwagon and Russian-speaking Europe is in opposition. Did Europe change (after its own 11/9) or did it only become more itself?

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.5771/1435-2869-2014-1-27

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