2014/01/01 by Vasilije Krestić · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Balkan and Eastern European Studies #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Croatian #Political science #State (computer science) #Ethnic group #Bosnia herzegovina #Ethnically diverse #Law #Ancient history #History #Geography #Philosophy #Computer science
paper · doi:10.2298/balc1445267k
openalex publication_date 2014/01/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Since the early 1860s many Croat politicians, both prominent (from Ante Starcevic and Ante Pavelic to Franjo Tudjman) and little known, have been openly expressing the ambition to annex Bosnia and Herzegovina to Croatia at a favourable moment and under certain conditions, invoking Croatian state and historical right in support of their pretensions. These pretensions, born out of the belief that the unfortunately shaped territory of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia lacks the necessary strategic depth, have led to a fully-fledged strategy for creating an ethnically and religiously pure Greater Croatia and to constant conflict with the Serb side which also lays claims, predominantly ethnic, to Bosnia and Herzegovina.