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How does a community targeted for extermination become the backbone of a fragile democracy? In his groundbreaking new book, The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide, political scientist Jasmin Mujanović explores the remarkable transformation of Bosnia’s Bosniaks — from a persecuted religious community into the political majority shaping the country’s future. Thirty years after genocide and war, Bosnia and Herzegovina still stands at a crossroads. Mujanović traces how the trauma of the 1990s, demographic shifts, and complex constitutional structures continue to define Bosnia’s politics and identity today, revealing what the Bosniak experience means for the stability of Southeastern Europe as a whole.

About the author

Jasmin Mujanović is a Los Angeles–based political scientist and policy specialist in Southeast European and international affairs. He holds a PhD from York University in Toronto and has worked as a scholar, consultant, researcher, and policy analyst across North America and Europe. He is the author of two acclaimed books, Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (2018) and The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide (2023), both published by Hurst and Oxford University Press. Currently, he serves as a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute’s Western Balkans Center.

Moderation

Ramiza Bajrami, Member of the Young SOG