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Papers by Mirsad Karic

ADAM AKADEMİ Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2021

Öz Liberal değerlerin yayılması ve savunulması, Amerikan dış politikasında süreklilik unsurlarınd... more Öz Liberal değerlerin yayılması ve savunulması, Amerikan dış politikasında süreklilik unsurlarından birisidir. Bu makalede ABD'nin geliştirdiği ve izlediği değerlere dayanan dış politikanın beş özelliği incelenmiştir. Birincisi, Amerikan karar vericileri, değerlere dayanan dış politikayı hem ABD'nin hem de insanlığın yararını gözeterek izlediklerini iddia etmişlerdir. İ� kincisi, karar vericiler, değerleri gerçekleştirmek adına izlenen siyasalar vasıtasıyla çoğu zaman kısa dönem Amerikan çıkarları elde edilebilmişlerdir. U� çüncüsü, değerler siyaseti izlerken benimsedikleri yöntem ve araçları, çoğu zaman Amerikan çıkarlarına öncelik vererek belirlemişlerdir. Dördüncüsü, ciddi maliyetlerle karşılaştıklarında, değerlere dayanan siyasaları gözden geçirmişlerdir. Sonuncusu, değerlere dayanan dış politika, Amerikan siyasal kültürü ile uyumludur. Bu makalede, söz konusu beş özellik dolayısıyla ABD'nin izlediği değerlere dayanan dış politikanın kendine özgü olduğu ve değerlere dayanan dış politikanın sürekliliğinin de bu beş özellik ışığında anlaşılabileceği ileri sürülmüştür. Amerikan iç siyasetinde ve dünya siyasetinde ABD'yi daha farklı davranmaya zorlayacak köklü değişiklikler meydana gelmediği müddetçe, ABD'nin değerlere dayanan dış politika anlayışı ve pratiğinde büyük bir değişim yaşanmayacağı beklenebilir.

Bosnia and Herzegovina is a heterogeneous country whereby ethnicity overlaps with religious value... more Bosnia and Herzegovina is a heterogeneous country whereby ethnicity overlaps with religious values. Thus, the scope of this work is based on the study of new religious movements of various religious and cultural backgrounds that exist and function in B&H. Therefore, due to the fact that there are insufficient comprehensive studies on this complex subject, this paper attempts to examine the role religion plays in social and political life in B&H by focusing on the way how it is employed by new religious movements that have been working actively in this field. Hence, this research primarily addressed the questions of formation of new religious movements, their role within society, overall impact on religious market as well as the citizens’ and experts’ perceptions of the same. This paper itself is based on the results of the data collected using both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection. The multidimensional nature of this research vis-à-vis its purpose, fostered the use of both qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and data analysis.

Bosnian Studies: Journal for research of Bosnian thought and culture, 2020

This paper outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the consociational power-sharing approach an... more This paper outlines the theoretical underpinnings of the consociational power-sharing approach and its presence in the political system of the post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina. The power-sharing framework used in this study provides insights into the theory of consociationalism as a power-sharing approach and tries to contribute to our understanding of the presence and relevance of this model to the Bosnian political system. The consociational framework emphasises the role of the political elites in providing the political stability and economic prosperity in the heterogeneous societies. It has four main features: grand coalition, proportional representation, segmental autonomy and mutual veto. The functioning and performance of this model depends, to a large extent, on factors that are conducive to elite cooperation. These factors are: population size, balance of power among segments, multiparty system, segmental isolation, nature of social cleavages, overarching loyalties and tr...

Epiphany, 2016

Twenty years after the Dayton Peace Agreement an exclusive ethnic ideology, international tutelag... more Twenty years after the Dayton Peace Agreement an exclusive ethnic ideology, international tutelage and dependency characterize Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wrong political approaches by the international and local political actors in Bosnia and Herzegovina created permanent crisis, the status quo and a 'case' country. Conflict, furthermore enriched with exclusive ethno-cultural paradigm and the legacy of bloody crucible of the war, shape today's political discourse in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Based on content analysis of leading newspapers, this paper examines the relationship between conflict and peace inclinations of main political leaders among Serbs, Bosniaks and Croats. In order to test the first objective on political discourse and political relationships based on the conflict vs. peace politics, using content analysis, the research analyzed media news on Bosnia and Herzegovina by considering only socio-political topics. We randomly selected 120 news from newspaper namely, Nezavisne novine, Glas srpske, Dnevni list and Dnevni avaz. For testing, the second objective on positive vs. negative political discourse of main political leaders we randomly selected 360 interviewbased news about key political leader including Bakir Izetbegovic (Bosniak), Dragan Čović (Croat) and Milorad Dodik (Serb). Research findings indicated that the conflict politics is deeply rooted in political discourse, media, among political leaders and the public.

Epiphany, 2014

The Energy politics is today at the center of the Russian and the Western Balkans relations. It i... more The Energy politics is today at the center of the Russian and the Western Balkans relations. It is widely known that Russia has been playing significant role in world energy supply. Therefore, Russian energy companies have taken a leading role in the promotion of their businesses in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkans region has become geostrategic partner as a transit route for the integration of Russia into the global energy world market. With regards to the transportation of gas Western Balkans as a transit route is determined to fully realize South Stream project. In contrast to "a buffer zone" role, in the past few decades the Western Balkans gained an attention from Russia and became an important geopolitical bridge towards Western Europe. Such geopolitical and geostrategic planning of Russia is apparent with regards to gas and oil. Due to Russian South Stream gas pipeline project the Western Balkans became an important European energy transforming center. These new geostrategic games over the pipeline have also revived the Russian historical interests in the Balkans. This paper aims to analyze Russian-Western Balkans relations with special emphasis on energy politics and geopolitical and geostrategic interdependence of Russia and the Western Balkans.

Epiphany, 2013

This paper provides a critical analyzes of 2012 local elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Since 1995... more This paper provides a critical analyzes of 2012 local elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Since 1995 the local elections and its political and electoral system have been based on the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA). According to DPA Bosnia-Herzegovina has the multiparty system and regular and free elections. These local elections were held amidst continuously renewed political turmoil at the cantonal, entity and state levels. 2012 local elections results have shown that the HDZ and SDA continued to dominate politics at the local level in the Federation of BiH while in the RS, position of SNSD has been strongly shaken by very good performance of SDS. The SDA won majority of votes in Bosniak majority areas while SDS and HDZ secured their votes in the Serb and Croat majority areas respectively. In the Federation of BiH, SDP and SBB suffered dramatic fall in votes comparing to the last general elections while in the RS, SNSD, which has dominated politics since 2006 lost significant number of votes, mayoral posts and municipality seats to SDS and some other political parties such as PDP, SP and DNS.

Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2012