Abstract:

The paper presents a theoretical, analytical, and ethical examination of B&H political economy, Constitutional "protection of vital national interests," and its effects on human security -socioeconomic conditions. The phenomenon of vital national interest and a theoretical and practical question focused on a constitutionally conditioned political point of view, not on economic, human security, legislative, peace & conflict dynamics, and normative framework. The paper argues that structurally manipulative and nepotistic ethnopolitical processes and the idiom "protection of vital national interests" demonstrate the institutionalization of post-war ethnoreligious conflict. It reduces the rule of law framework, the country's integrity, sociopolitical, economic, and critical human security progression. The ethnoreligious conflict of "vital national interest" undermines the country's economic system. The narrative of protecting "vital national interests" is the ethnopolitical elites' manipulative instrumentalization and interest that has risen above the state and used for personal objectives. In a "constitutively" manner, the ethnopolitical arrangement is reduced to a struggle over territory. It directly territorializes and divides B&H into ethnoreligious areas. Contemporary Machiavellians use intrigue and manipulation to gain or retain power. It has a character of more deceptive than violent behavior. The Balkan-B&H demonstrates Maciavelism more profoundly than Machiavelli's authentic perspective. Ethical, political behavior and intention can consolidate institutions' capacity, regardless of ethnoreligious disparities and past. The development of civic awareness and plural civic space must articulate responsibility in government through the active participation of citizens in decision-making processes, reducing the recorded and current irregularities/criminalities, and strengthening the rule of law in the public administration. There must be continuing conditions to maintain cooperation between all three ethnopolitics through formal and mutual commitment until the preconditions for stability are met. Thus, the employment sector, especially for well-educated unemployed young people, improving social security and health services, monitored by the honest/ethical government and constructive public administration.

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