Bosnia and Herzegovina, strategically located in the heart of the Balkans, increasingly recognizes China as an important partner in its efforts to improve its economic and political position on the international stage. Over the past several decades, China has emerged as a global economic actor whose growth shapes not only its internal structure but also global economic flows. With a…
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Four literary recommendations, from fiction to remembrance, from intimacy to shared memory. The Shoah, and a less visible warning: the circumstances that seem foreign to us today always end up addressing us all. Literature, once again, as a way of understanding—and of sounding the alarm. So: my friend has gone into the second-hand record shop and I have stayed outside,…
Four literary recommendations are woven into the story of a lawyer who, without opening a gift, must decipher the hidden meaning of a ritual gesture, an impossible extradition, and an unexpected lesson in the power of literature. By all appearances, I am facing a mortal danger. Yes, you heard that correctly: a mortal danger. Fatal, if you prefer—although this is…
It is a real pleasure to join you this evening, as we celebrate the seventh anniversary of Raia Diplomatica. This special occasion gives us the chance to congratulate the magazine on another successful year and to recognize the important role it has been playing since its establishment. Over 7 years, Raia Diplomatica has worked with great dedication to offer everyone…
At the beginning of the 20th century, Bosnia and Herzegovina was part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. The Serbian community in this region was small compared to other peoples, but it was very active politically and culturally. Its most prominent members gathered in the Serbian Independent Party, an organization that worked to protect the rights of the Serbian people, their identity,…
Neither Onofre nor his little girl realised, at first, that their hostess was nowhere to be seen when they arrived in the capital. After retrieving their single shared suitcase from the carousel at Vienna International Airport, father and nine-year-old daughter steered themselves towards the exit. The last confirming WhatsApp message from Julia K. had arrived that very morning, just before…
Today, thirty years after the end of the war and the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) enters a new phase in its political trajectory – for the first time appointing a chief negotiator with the European Union, who will lead the negotiation process and represent BiH in the key stages of its EU integration. This…
“I’m off!” — the first words spoken by the protagonist in Jean Echenoz’s novel, freshly resolved to leave his wife — and, incidentally, the title of the book. My own departure from the family home in Zaragoza was rather more courteous. No slammed doors, no literary drama. Just a quiet exit in pursuit of a weekend alone. The plan? Disarmingly…
The monarchy of Spain is one of the oldest in Europe, with its roots stretching back over a thousand years. It has undergone radical transformations—from feudal kingdoms to a unified Catholic monarchy, through absolutism, civil wars, republican experiments, dictatorship, and finally, to its current form as a constitutional parliamentary monarchy. The monarchy’s evolution mirrors the broader currents of European history,…
Subject to an international scenario that celebrates the logic of modern imperialism and reshapes a multipolar dynamic, fearing the escalation of a world war seems minor when we are under the threat of something far more dangerous: the gradual, silent collapse of our international system, once designed to prevent it. The aggravated conflict between Iran and Israel, marked by veiled…