Economic Crime, Abuse of Ethnopolitical Power, and Systemic Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Analysis of Causes and Risks of Phenomena

Criminal morality, nepotism, the culture of fear and corruption grow into the general culture, paralyzing, 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 "legal" spilling public resources. The phenomenon is at least one of the most severe factors endangering the entire system and socio-political relations, influencing unemployment, economic migrations, and the country's financial security. The systemic absence of political stability, toleration, and protection of organized crime by some government elements affected institutions' further weakening. The main focus after the democratic changes were on the protection of political rights, neglecting socio-economic rights, which relates to gaining (ethnoreligious joint) social capital for future prosperity. In the economic-security-human rights framework, Dayton is non-functional, with massive and complex public administration, unsustainable. The international community's mistake is "leaving/supporting" war political structures with an ethnonational sign, after the conflict. War accumulation of capital (profiteering), through the privatization of the 1990s, led to the formation of the power of capital within ethnopolitical authorities (especially war parties). Practice and power abusive legislation on the structure of employment in the public sector requires systemic legislative reforms within the discourse of the rule of law. The political stalemate of ethnonational elites diminishes BiH's EU perspective by opening up a dialogue of will and political assessment by EU officials. Therefore, meeting the criteria for the EU, NATO should be considered a goal of transition and not just a condition for the EU; it is necessary to focus on the accession process as a (market) transformation key. Three ethnopolitics pursue containment policies; "hybrid wars" prevent their significant transition into three political communities, unable to make a functioning rule of law, influencing phenomena.