Faruk Hadžić

Independent Researcher/Scholar

The study investigates whether atheism in B&H is treated, a priori, as amoralism and how this affects plural civic space. If religion is privileged, is it a politically dictated value system or pure ideology? Besides in-depth critical literature review, the author refers to a number of structural interviews focusing on both groups (theists and agno...

The study presents cultural, religious and peace and conflict discourse on Jerusalem (Israel-Palestine conflict), attempting to remain outside the realpolitik and examine sociopolitical-religious synergy and critical peace and partially integral human securitisation. Interculturalism, multiculturalism, and such notions emerged in the 1970s, emphasi...

The paper argues that post-socialist neoliberal democracy is hindered by the exposed or conditioned ethnic symbolic radical populism, particularly in the post-Yugoslav ethnonationalism political behavior. Moreover, the approach toward the fascist ideology symbols disregards the communist social memory of stability and human security and a collectiv...

The study problematizes the sociological/political/psychological/genetic aspects of neo-racism and nationalism and their conflict consequences. It aims to unlock points within peace philosophy and enlightenment. The paper argues that contemporary sociopolitics, as an expression of neoliberalism, globalization, radical nationalism, and supremacy, ma...

The study indicates wartime programmed violence's implications within the liberal interpretation of contemporary legislative and human rights debates. It discusses related war theories and practices, problematizing instrumentalization of instilling new global ethics, arguing that humanitarian interventions often became "usable" in the new millenniu...

The study examines current left-wing and right-wing political behaviour and inclusionary and exclusionary practices in MENA, Latin America, and Europe and its outcomes on political developments and changes in comparative method. This study investigates the evolution and transition of contemporary rightism and leftism in these dissimilar Regions and...

Extended Abstract: The paper investigates global climate processes, i.e., policies and equity concerns between postindustrial countries in the Global North and emerging economies in the Global South. The author argues that to reduce inequalities and the environmental fragility of the Global South and increase Climate Justice, greenhouse gas (GHG) e...

From a comparative perspective, the study examines current left-wing and right-wing political behaviour and inclusionary and exclusionary practices in MENA, Latin America, and Europe and its outcomes on political developments and changes. This study investigates the evolution and transition of contemporary rightism and leftism in these dissimilar R...

Extended Abstract : Events and research data have clarified that no country can escape the global ecological crisis and climate change impacts. The Global North, the world's most affluent and privileged country, is responsible for around half of all emissions since the Industrial Revolution. The least developed countries, "Global South," have cont...

No considerable research focused on ethnopolitical behavior in Western Balkans related to observed phenomena. Thus, issues regarding the sociopolitical and educational processes of clerical-ethnonational exist. Furthermore, its social and psychological dimensions and peace stalemate are crucial points. Therefore, the paper will highlight several cr...

The article presents a theoretical and conceptual examination of religious violent and unethical non-violent behaviors, ethnopolitical and clerical synergism, and religious peace-building capacity. I argue that the phenomenon of religious/ethnic violent and non-violent interchangeability adopted by national political unethical behavior has adverse...

In genocidal war crimes cases, failed transitional justice, ethnonational and socially defensive collective confutation, and generated victimization narratives lead societies into a "new state of conflict." These adverse processes influence the perspective of "positive peace," i.e., unlock the structural factors of "negative peace" and decrease sta...

The Extended Abstract: Vision is always a question of the power to see and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices. From wars to terrorist attacks to revolutions, our perceptions of significant world events are strongly influenced by the images we see from the ground. We live in a visual era. Television, film, documentaries,...

The study suggests a multidimensional approach, an integration of critical creativity & innovation, and peace education as a vital essence of sustainable normative peaceful coexistence. It can be an essential mechanism, i.e., an educational space that nurtures genuine welfare not just in peace but in various processes (social/political/economic/hum...

The study addresses European Islam, Christianity, and contemporary neo-nationalism/neo- radicalism and their political/cultural/religious/historical conflict. First, the paper argues that the intriguing neo-nationalist and neo-conservative "opposition" between Europe and Islam affect sociopolitical stability, and non-epistemological sociopolitical...

Critical security studies and human security challenge the state-centric orthodoxy of conventional international security. Both study concepts challenge neorealist scholarship and involve the broadening and deepening of the security agenda. The human security concept is supposed to centralize the more complete conditions (e.g., human socioeconomic,...

In genocidal war crimes cases, failed transitional justice, ethnonational and socially defensive collective confutation, and generated victimization narratives lead societies into a "new state of conflict." These adverse processes influence the perspective of "positive peace," i.e., unlock the structural factors of "negative peace" and decrease sta...

The study explores the relationship between politics and law and its relation to moral and ethical categories, arguing the democratic and liberal tradition deficiency in the Western Balkans. A contemporary debate on democracy in its relation to moral categories is required. Previous research showed that political psychology starts from a position t...

Extended Abstract: The study offered a theoretical, conceptual, and observational examination of the Russian "sharp power," hybrid threats, religious and ideological catalysts, fertile ground, and existences concerning the Western Balkans, with a significant focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina - B&H. B&H is the most fragile Western Balkan state, and se...

The paper analyzes the normative-formative framework that denotes the connection between memory and identity as a crucial origin of conflicts. In addition to concerns about memory politics, historical revisionism and ethnonational identity collectivism, the paper dissolves the connection between phenomena highlighting outcomes of the peace process,...

The study analyzes B&H's historical, religious, ideological, and political contests, its post-war integrity, the EU path, and the "majority Muslim European country" paradigm. First, the paper argues that ethnoreligious polarization, political radicalism, and the secessionist processes influence conflict transformation, sociopolitical stagnation, an...

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 p...

The paper examines the ontological and normative origins of the "Two schools under one roof" (existing for decades but negligibly elaborated) and parallel academic segregation; the multidisciplinary approach to the educational framework- legislation, future sociopolitical relations, critical peace, and the youth's psychosocial well-being. This pape...

The paper re-examines neoliberal societies' essential characteristics and dignity exposition, arguing that racial injustice represents and inaugurates a systemic culmination. By proceeding with the theoretical framework of neoliberalism's impact on inequality, the study presents racism and its relevance in health and cognate inequalities and associ...

This paper examines the impact of climate change in the Balkans on the different macro components of human and environmental security: the environmental dimension, the state's adaptation policies, and crisis management for the signified imperatives of mitigation describing impacts on different divisions offering normative resolutions. A comprehensi...

"Psychologists for Peace" - Open letter on the War in Ukraine. "Psychologists for Peace" - Open letter to the President of the Russian Federation Wladimir Putin.

The paper presents insight into the consequences of emergency-based climate and crisis applications in the Balkans related to solidarity behavior, i.e., human securitization within civic pluralism, offering ethnic conflict opposition. Prior research in post-conflict countries focused on rebuilding destroyed and fragmented societies, liberal peacebu...

This paper critically addresses the identification of transitional, retributive and restorative justice, ICTY, and historiographical memory as the moral foundation of conflict transformation and peace-building normativeness in post-Yugoslav societies. First, the paper argues that Western Balkans' socio-political maturity depends on the moral exacti...

The manuscript addresses historical and substantive co-occurring processes and conditions of Bosnian state-building, peace-building, and developmental status quo by exploring civic nationalism and social capital patterns within sociocultural-political and ethnoreligious hybrid ideological polarization. Moreover, the paper examines the Western Balka...

The research determines the hypothesis: Bosnia and Herzegovina has not effectively adjusted the environmental protection policy and has insufficient ecological awareness. The study presents theoretical determinants and ecological legislative policies of former Yugoslavia (focusing on B&H) associated with the EU, analysing strategies and environment...

This paper aims to describe and analyze social and humane entrepreneurship, social enterprise, and social entrepreneur with a significant aspect on the framework of Western Balkans. Besides, the study examines the notion of social economy and the origins of the development of social entrepreneurship in Western Balkans, aiming to investigate possibi...

The study argues that the region remains structurally fragile and right-wing radical, economic-political undervalued, with external anti-EU and NATO geopolitical entities' influence, organized crime sources, with a necessity for joint-ethnonational cooperation implements. The Balkan history is the building material of collective identities within t...

This research analyses the internationalization paradigm of extremism and neo-Nazism, affecting related global events within the historical, psychosocial, sociopolitical, security, and globalized media framework; problematizing a gap between peace, violence, democratic legislation, social awareness, political agendas, participation, and hyperperson...

The study problematizes the democratic consequences of globalization and conceptualizes attention to the fact that an adversary process of disintegration occurs in parallel with integration and globalization. It further distinguishes between globalization as an objective historical process and globalism as adverse domination. In order to reverse th...

The paper focuses on human security dynamics within climate change, with its social impacts on the world's marginalized inequalities. Climate change threatens the future of human rights, to undo development, health, and the fight against poverty and marginalization. As global warming, excessive rainfall, and severe droughts affect agriculture, food...

The study problematizes the democratic consequences of globalization and conceptualizes attention to the fact that an adversary process of disintegration occurs in parallel with integration and globalization. It further distinguishes between globalization as an objective historical process and globalism as adverse domination. In order to reverse th...

The paper presents a theoretical and analytical examination of tolerance and ethics within ethnoreligious citizenship groundwork, aiming to objectifies intolerance to irreligion within a religious-national identity synergically paradigm. It aims to present the role that religion plays in determining the national identity of the peoples of the Balka...

The paper examines socioeconomic conditions generated internally and externally, affecting the mechanisms of fundamental human rights, health, education, and employment sectors in underdeveloped fragile societies. Additionally, by analyzing health as a fundamental human right, the paper questions neoliberalism tendencies arguing that injustice is s...

The study aims to understand ethnoreligious identities arguing that it is a politically significant resource for mobilization and essential for the stability and progression stalemate in the Western Balkans. Moreover, ethnic mobilization induces and spreads a sense of homogeneity and equality and a sense of security and power in the collective "We....

In the limited space, the essay outlines nationalism and the anti-nationalism paradigm in the fragmentation globalization processes. Is the world fated to exclusive national identities, or is establishing social equality or creating a supranational identity class of solidarity? In the last two centuries, we had two examples (i.e., Yugoslavia and th...

The paper analyzes the concepts, causes, and normative solutions of social and political exclusions in Bosnia and Herzegovina within post Yugoslavia’s ethnonationalism paradigm and the Dayton Constitution. War, post-war neoliberalism produced economic destitution and social exclusions. Along with the clerical, ethnonationalism showed diligence as t...

The paper explores migrations and media concerning the human security conceptualization dilemma. Prevention programs of media propaganda as a separate phenomenon based on proper longitudinal, multidisciplinary research into the etiology and consequences can contribute to human rights. Migration is an essential factor of human and international secu...

The study analyzes religious and cultural violence, focusing on the Genocide against Yazidis within the broader Kurdish socio-political framework. The ISIL genocidal intent against Yazidis includes forced relocation and practice attitudes that apply to elitism and sexual violence. It is part of the destruction of the group in terms of destruction o...

The paper discusses theoretically and conceptually ethnoreligious identity politics of dispute, globally and regionally, defining conflict management, leadership, and civic development, describing development conditions and the normative framework for conflict resolution. It argues that identity politics emphasizes ethnoreligious attitudes among th...

The paper analyzes the concepts, causes, and normative solutions of social and political exclusions in Bosnia and Herzegovina within post Yugoslavia’s ethnonationalism paradigm and the Dayton Constitution. War, post-war neoliberalism produced economic destitution and social exclusions. Along with the clerical, ethnonationalism showed diligence as t...

The study's objective is to critically explore the relationship between politics, morality, ethics, and law, focusing on the Western Balkans. Like morality, politics is an activity and an effort around the community. As a concern for the community, and the everyday life of the people, morality would be the first kind, the first and most favorable f...

The essence of geopolitics is most often sought and seen in political forces that fight each other, intending to achieve a dominant role in and over society. Within such views on politics, science undoubtedly owes the most to Machiavelli, whose works can be considered the first inspirers of modern realistic theories in political science. Such under...

The author explores how the political and economic transition and the legacies of conflicts produced the states' criminalization and whether the more significant issues of these countries were nationalism or capitalist exploitation, or are these two categories in symbiosis? The presence of capitalism as the ruling model requires some form of nation...

The paper argues that observed actors shape contemporary geopolitical and international relations and that democratization and security are near related to social movements and international organizations' activities and politicization of everyday life. The transformation of the world from modern society into a global society of risk is a concept t...

[Conclusion] Given the bitter historical experience – the dominance of Arab nationalism over Islamic unity – one should be wary of Western and non-Western constructions that impose Arab sentiments under the Arab Spring banner on the Islamic awakening. In any case, the project suffered defeat, and even if it exists today in the minds of the region’s...

The paper analyzes the post-cold war contemporary geopolitics from the political, economic, and security framework, presenting the concepts and reflections on the international relations focusing on war and peace modalities within a discourse of democracy, hegemonism, global deprivation, and inequalities. It emphasizes the point of view that streng...

The study qualitatively explores the pandemic and Sarajevo War-Siege from the psychological, sociological, and political security perspectives. As a direct indicator of behavioral variability within extreme conditions, the author refers to structural interviews with war-siege participants. The citizens can recognize the 1990s in some manifestations...

Hybrid and Psychological Geopolitical Warfare -The Western Balkans Case Study. Undemocratic processes of hybrid and psychological geopolitical warfare blurred relations and security paradigm. The legacy of conflicts and the applied Western policies to the region is the strengthening of ethnonational discourses and the activation of regional crises...

Undemocratic processes of hybrid and psychological geopolitical warfare blurred relations and security paradigm. The legacy of conflicts and the applied Western policies to the region is the strengthening of ethnonational discourses and the activation of regional crises. The Anglo-American project of post-Cold War spatial planning in the Western Ba...

The paper focuses on the political position populism occupies in representative democracies as an inclusionary pylon for fascism, with the analog review of the Balkans and its global security lessons. Populism implies a constant conflict between elite, establishment, alienated structures linked to interests contrary to the public or members of othe...

The studyʼs objective is to explore the social and political framework of terrorism and critically analyze the antihumanist approach to denominational hypocrisy of Western and non-Western terrorism. Radicalization and violent extremism are becoming increasingly pronounced threats to societies' security and stability at the global level. Despite the...

The critical security studies should be not to establish "objective truth" but to enable a broader understanding of security based on respect for specific theoretical and political starting points in its conceptualization. Issues of environmental security and environmental protection are issues of overall security because they directly cause: open...

A rational analysis of the international community's failure to prevent war crimes in BiH (Bosnia and Herzegovina) can be a lesson for the future's morality model. The EU's role in Southeast Europe is inconsistent between its normative potential and current problematic aspects of process implementation policies. The recognition of Dayton's failure...

The study critically analyzes the root causal and consequential transnational human trafficking factors from the Balkan wars to the present, implying stigmatization discourse, gender-discriminatory climate, the role of masculinity by comprehensive bibliographic review, and insight into the socio-political and economic challenges by the participativ...

Ethnic, national, and confessional affiliation in ex-Yugoslavia add to political radicalization. As a form of political power, politicized religions are, psychologically speaking, unconscious non-faith. Due to new national-state theoretical inadequacy, (i.e., nationalism as an ideology), religion is used as an instrument of socialization and legiti...

The study aims to critically analyze the EU's political identity and how the migrant crisis embodies the most challenging political issue facing the E.U., implicating growing xenophobia and questioning European multiculturalism. Moreover, the author provides insight into the migrant crisis's socio-political and security challenges, followed by ethn...

A sound security system represents the most significant degree of unity of diversity, which means that all the different details are brought into harmony. B&H does not have adequate cybersecurity: privatization of political influence, insufficient institutional cooperation, fundamentally hostile political environment (ethnopolitical institutional s...

In post-Yugoslav spaces, democracy has not been won by independent and robust social groups that can act as a counterweight to the state structure, with formed interests that act "transformatively"; not directing political change and form the basis of political pluralism. In the processes of political and social transformation of society, pragmatis...

Ethnic, national, and confessional affiliation in ex-Yugoslavia add to political radicalization. As a form of political power, politicized religions are, psychologically speaking, unconscious non-faith. Due to new national-state theoretical inadequacy, (i.e., nationalism as an ideology), religion is used as an instrument of socialization and legiti...

Dobar sistem sigurnosti predstavlja največi stupanj jedinstva različitosti što znači da se sve različite pojedinosti dovode u međusobni sklad. BiH nema adekvatnu cyber sigurnost: privatizacija političkog utjecaja, nedovoljna institucionalna saradnja, fundamentalno negativan politički ambijent (etnopolitičko institucionalno ustrojstvo), fragmentira...

In a symbolic sense, this region may be burdened with a kind of negative ontology that is very difficult to change. Extremist ideologies are, in fact, just a continuation of the war by other means. They have entered education, and beginning to metastasize and affect the entire social tissue, becoming "naturalness", supported by different mythopoeti...

Although the trend of democratization is a reality, there are still great antagonisms and oppositions towards adapting the nation-state to different forms of diversity, be they ethnic, national, linguistic, religious, or cultural. In the region, people live with the consequences of ambitious modernization projects that have been carried out superfi...

Criminal morality, nepotism, fear culture, and corruption grow into the general culture, paralysing and stagnating the country. The social pyramid of corruption consists of its massive broad base, everyday corruption whose actors are officials and citizens; the main reason is unemployment and insecurity on which the new bourgeoisie draws power from...

Elite su u vrijeme krize najosjetljivije na pritiske društvenih pokreta i radikalnije promjene postaju moguće. Potrebno je podržati pozitivnu vrijednost ove i svake krizne situacije: ona je uvjet tranzicije. Potrebna je perspektiva na svjetskom nivou koja je usredočena ne samo na određena pitanja ili kretanja oko kojih se društvene snage organizira...

Acquisitions present one of the possible ways of external growth of enterprises in the time of globalization, which are giving the chance for quickly and effectively adapting to the environment, positioning, competitiveness and attractiveness for investments. Paper is focused on the role of management in acquisition's process of enterprises in Bosn...

Apstrakt Akvizicije predstavljaju jedan od mogućih načina eksternog rasta preduzeća u vremenu svjetske globalizacije, koje daju šansu brzog i efikasnog prilagođavanja okruženju, pozicioniraju, konkurentnosti, te privlačnosti za investicije. Fokus rada predstavlja uloga menadžmenta u akvizicijskom procesu preduzeća u Bosni i Hercegovini, koja se ref...

Development of computer and communication technology has led to significant technological changes in the functioning of banks, so nowadays we can talk about the creation and development of electronic banking or e-banking. Positive effects of using electronic banking are arising from potential opportunities which would provide a cost-effective and e...