Jasmin Mujanović
@jasminmuj.bsky.social
Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018) and "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), both available via Hurst and OUP.
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Jasmin Mujanović
@jasminmuj.bsky.social
· Nov 10
I am going to assume that the vast majority of people following me on this app likely already know my work but on the off chance that you don’t: I write about the Balkans and international relations, democratization and authoritarianism. I try to stay in my lane beyond that. Cheers!
"Serbia’s prosecutor for organized crime on Monday charged a government minister and three others with abuse of office and falsifying of documents to help pave the way for a real estate project linked to Jared Kushner". apnews.com/article/serb...
Serbia organized crime prosecutors charge minister, others in connection with Kushner-linked project
Serbia’s prosecutor for organized crime has charged a government minister and three others with abuse of position and falsifying of documents related to a luxury real estate project linked to U.S.
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December 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"Serbia’s prosecutor for organized crime on Monday charged a government minister and three others with abuse of office and falsifying of documents to help pave the way for a real estate project linked to Jared Kushner". apnews.com/article/serb...
“Hundreds of [Serb{ militants have travelled to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian troops in the belief that ‘Mother Russia’ will repay them by helping them retake lost Serbian territories [sic] such as Kosovo.” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Hundreds of [Serb{ militants have travelled to Ukraine to fight alongside Russian troops in the belief that ‘Mother Russia’ will repay them by helping them retake lost Serbian territories [sic] such as Kosovo.” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I am profoundly saddened by the horrific scenes out of Sydney. Antisemitism is a barbarian creed, an affront to every person of conscience. Any act of terrorism or bigotry which targets a community for their faith or identity is an attack on all free people, and the rule of law.
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I am profoundly saddened by the horrific scenes out of Sydney. Antisemitism is a barbarian creed, an affront to every person of conscience. Any act of terrorism or bigotry which targets a community for their faith or identity is an attack on all free people, and the rule of law.
Plenkovic & his puppet Covic moved heaven & earth this yr to ensure Kremlin-backed secessionist Dodik remained in BiH govt & free of EU sanctions. Now, they’re launching their own secessionist-lite project, aka a “third entity”. More on BiH's Hayat TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri3W...
Suludo je pričati o EU putu BiH dok je Hrvatska kao članica ugrožava – prvi dio | 7Plus | Hayat TV
YouTube video by Hayat 2
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December 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Plenkovic & his puppet Covic moved heaven & earth this yr to ensure Kremlin-backed secessionist Dodik remained in BiH govt & free of EU sanctions. Now, they’re launching their own secessionist-lite project, aka a “third entity”. More on BiH's Hayat TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri3W...
American frustrations with Europe's lackadaisical commitments to its own security long precede the current US administration. But key European capitals have for too long played deaf and blind to shifting geopolitical realities. My latest for Odgovor.ba. odgovor.ba/article/6559
Europe’s Problem is not America, its Europe
The publication of the US National Security Strategy (NSS) last week sent shockwaves throughout Europe. The alarm is not unwarranted per se. From the perspective of the continent’s transatlanticists, ...
odgovor.ba
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
American frustrations with Europe's lackadaisical commitments to its own security long precede the current US administration. But key European capitals have for too long played deaf and blind to shifting geopolitical realities. My latest for Odgovor.ba. odgovor.ba/article/6559
Incredible scenes today in Banja Luka, with the most senior levels of both the Plenkovic govt of Croatia and its HDZ BiH proxies trumpeting their support for the Kremlin-backed Bosnian Serb secessionist regime in the RS entity. Not even Orban or Vucic have so boldly feted Dodik.
December 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Incredible scenes today in Banja Luka, with the most senior levels of both the Plenkovic govt of Croatia and its HDZ BiH proxies trumpeting their support for the Kremlin-backed Bosnian Serb secessionist regime in the RS entity. Not even Orban or Vucic have so boldly feted Dodik.
Croatia’s PM Plenkovic in BiH again to meet Russian-backed Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik, officially to open a border crossing that is not actually open. Along w/ Orban, Plenkovic remains key opponent of EU sanctions vs. Dodik, his pro-Kremlin regime. www.vijesti.ba/clanak/73058...
Plenković stigao u Banja Luku, na dočeku i Dodik
Predsjednik Vlade Hrvatske Andrej Plenković stigao je u posjetu Banjaluci, gdje će se sastati sa banjalučkim biskupom Željkom Majićem i prisustvovati polag
www.vijesti.ba
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Croatia’s PM Plenkovic in BiH again to meet Russian-backed Bosnian Serb secessionist Dodik, officially to open a border crossing that is not actually open. Along w/ Orban, Plenkovic remains key opponent of EU sanctions vs. Dodik, his pro-Kremlin regime. www.vijesti.ba/clanak/73058...
"'Since lifting of US sanctions on a number of officials in the [RS], we have witnessed a continuation of incendiary behaviour and actions, including from those who were recently delisted by the Trump administration,' said Jeanne Shaheen". www.ft.com/content/49ec...
The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans
South-eastern Europe jolted by Trump’s support for pro-Russia Serb leader
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
"'Since lifting of US sanctions on a number of officials in the [RS], we have witnessed a continuation of incendiary behaviour and actions, including from those who were recently delisted by the Trump administration,' said Jeanne Shaheen". www.ft.com/content/49ec...
Europe must urgently cease urging itself to urgently do X, and actually do it — anything.
European leaders and wonks alike have been declaring and announcing, then doing next to nothing for more than a decade. Europe’s culture of passivity will be its undoing.
European leaders and wonks alike have been declaring and announcing, then doing next to nothing for more than a decade. Europe’s culture of passivity will be its undoing.
Europe must urgently build an independent “EuroStack”of critical technologies — or risk foreign powers weaponising its digital dependencies, argues @giorgosverdi.bsky.social in a new report out today. A 🧵
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Europe must urgently cease urging itself to urgently do X, and actually do it — anything.
European leaders and wonks alike have been declaring and announcing, then doing next to nothing for more than a decade. Europe’s culture of passivity will be its undoing.
European leaders and wonks alike have been declaring and announcing, then doing next to nothing for more than a decade. Europe’s culture of passivity will be its undoing.
The National Defense Authorization Act, which Congress is expected to pass in the coming days, feat some robust measures re: the W. Balkans, incl mandating POTUS w/in 90 days of its passage to impose sanctions on any person identified as undermining the Dayton Agreement.
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The National Defense Authorization Act, which Congress is expected to pass in the coming days, feat some robust measures re: the W. Balkans, incl mandating POTUS w/in 90 days of its passage to impose sanctions on any person identified as undermining the Dayton Agreement.
If "Western civilization" has any salience as a contemporary political principle then it is an ideological commitment to rational inquiry, constitutional government, representative democracy, rule of law, civil liberties, separation of church and state, and free markets. Not Granichary brigandry.
December 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If "Western civilization" has any salience as a contemporary political principle then it is an ideological commitment to rational inquiry, constitutional government, representative democracy, rule of law, civil liberties, separation of church and state, and free markets. Not Granichary brigandry.
Europeans are aghast at the US National Security Strategy yet it only reflects the views POTUS has been articulating for more than a decade. What have they done to respond in the interim? Hope is not a strategy, as 20+ years of European waffling in the Balkans has shown.
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Europeans are aghast at the US National Security Strategy yet it only reflects the views POTUS has been articulating for more than a decade. What have they done to respond in the interim? Hope is not a strategy, as 20+ years of European waffling in the Balkans has shown.
Ukraine doesn't need peace per se, nor does America, nor Europe. For their long-term strategic interest and security, which are far more important than the agenda of this or that government, all three, in fact, need victory; Ukraine's victory over Russia. That must be the aim of any coherent policy.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ukraine doesn't need peace per se, nor does America, nor Europe. For their long-term strategic interest and security, which are far more important than the agenda of this or that government, all three, in fact, need victory; Ukraine's victory over Russia. That must be the aim of any coherent policy.
Some thoughts on Rep. Mike Turner's just introduced "bipartisan and bicameral resolution recognizing the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords."
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Some thoughts on Rep. Mike Turner's just introduced "bipartisan and bicameral resolution recognizing the 30th anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords."
Some thoughts on today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Western Balkans:
December 2, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Some thoughts on today's House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the Western Balkans:
Things the Western Balkans knew years ago Case No. 7,364: “Anyone looking at Europe’s choices…can see a psychology of weakness…a continent lacking courage, unable to take decisive action even when it comes to its core interests.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Europe’s psychology of weakness
It’s time the EU ditched its failing strategy of “react, hope, repeat.”
www.politico.eu
December 2, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Things the Western Balkans knew years ago Case No. 7,364: “Anyone looking at Europe’s choices…can see a psychology of weakness…a continent lacking courage, unable to take decisive action even when it comes to its core interests.” www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Remember there are serious people in Brussels and Washington who think Vucic is actually just pretending to be aligned with Russia: "[Serbia's] government [will] allow payments and transactions for the U.S.-sanctioned Russian-owned oil company NIS...despite the risk of secondary sanctions."
Serbia will allow payments, transactions for Russian oil firm NIS this week reut.rs/4oo1dzf
Serbia will allow payments, transactions for Russian oil firm NIS this week
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday the government would allow payments and transactions for the U.S.-sanctioned Russian-owned oil company NIS until the end of the week, despite the risk of secondary sanctions.
reut.rs
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Remember there are serious people in Brussels and Washington who think Vucic is actually just pretending to be aligned with Russia: "[Serbia's] government [will] allow payments and transactions for the U.S.-sanctioned Russian-owned oil company NIS...despite the risk of secondary sanctions."
The charges against Mogherini et al by the EPPO remind us that corruption is not unique to Europe’s east (e.g. Ukraine). As in the W. Balkans, “domestic” corruption has often been aided by generations of Western officials who have happily gone halfsies with local kleptocrats.
December 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The charges against Mogherini et al by the EPPO remind us that corruption is not unique to Europe’s east (e.g. Ukraine). As in the W. Balkans, “domestic” corruption has often been aided by generations of Western officials who have happily gone halfsies with local kleptocrats.
A week has gone by since the special elections in BiH’s RS entity. With a difference of just 2.21% between the candidates, the evidence of significant electoral fraud by the SNSD regime is overwhelming, ably laid out by Transparency Int. and others. Yet still no reaction from the EU, nor US.
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A week has gone by since the special elections in BiH’s RS entity. With a difference of just 2.21% between the candidates, the evidence of significant electoral fraud by the SNSD regime is overwhelming, ably laid out by Transparency Int. and others. Yet still no reaction from the EU, nor US.
There’s really nothing significant about MJ Calic’s recent essay on Sarajevo. She is a reheated historical revisionist, whose intellectual labor now consists exclusively of a compendium of tortured Islamophobic tropes for Germany’s tankie bourgeoisie. A budget Peter Handke.
November 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There’s really nothing significant about MJ Calic’s recent essay on Sarajevo. She is a reheated historical revisionist, whose intellectual labor now consists exclusively of a compendium of tortured Islamophobic tropes for Germany’s tankie bourgeoisie. A budget Peter Handke.
“History is cruel, geography crueler still…This American president demands peace, even if it is on the Kremlin’s terms. And Ukraine’s leaders, like [Bosnia’s] in 1995, must…choose whether to say yes or no to Washington.” For Odgovor.ba on (un)just peace. odgovor.ba/article/5552/
Lessons from an Unjust Peace: Bosnia 1995 and Ukraine Today
It is a historical coincidence but a nevertheless instructive one. We observe the 30th anniversary of the initialing of the Dayton Peace Agreement, just as the Trump administration mounts a major pres...
odgovor.ba
November 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“History is cruel, geography crueler still…This American president demands peace, even if it is on the Kremlin’s terms. And Ukraine’s leaders, like [Bosnia’s] in 1995, must…choose whether to say yes or no to Washington.” For Odgovor.ba on (un)just peace. odgovor.ba/article/5552/
Analyses by the BiH branch of @anticorruption.bsky.social suggest the results in 40 voting sites in BiH’s recent special election indicate improbably rapid voting, a clear indicator of fraud (by Dodik’s candidate Karan). They say the results at these sites affect some 8,500 votes.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Analyses by the BiH branch of @anticorruption.bsky.social suggest the results in 40 voting sites in BiH’s recent special election indicate improbably rapid voting, a clear indicator of fraud (by Dodik’s candidate Karan). They say the results at these sites affect some 8,500 votes.
An important debate in the UK House
of Lords this week re: the developments in BiH. Especially key, as clarified through this question by Lord Browne, that UK government does not intend to remove its sanctions vs. Bosnian Serb secessionists Dodik and Cvijanovic.
of Lords this week re: the developments in BiH. Especially key, as clarified through this question by Lord Browne, that UK government does not intend to remove its sanctions vs. Bosnian Serb secessionists Dodik and Cvijanovic.
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
An important debate in the UK House
of Lords this week re: the developments in BiH. Especially key, as clarified through this question by Lord Browne, that UK government does not intend to remove its sanctions vs. Bosnian Serb secessionists Dodik and Cvijanovic.
of Lords this week re: the developments in BiH. Especially key, as clarified through this question by Lord Browne, that UK government does not intend to remove its sanctions vs. Bosnian Serb secessionists Dodik and Cvijanovic.
Many empires and armies have come and gone, their trinkets long bereft of luster. But the stone remembers, old peoples and their older ways.
A joyous Statehood Day to all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to its many friends far across its verdant hills as well.
A joyous Statehood Day to all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to its many friends far across its verdant hills as well.
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Many empires and armies have come and gone, their trinkets long bereft of luster. But the stone remembers, old peoples and their older ways.
A joyous Statehood Day to all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to its many friends far across its verdant hills as well.
A joyous Statehood Day to all the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and to its many friends far across its verdant hills as well.
Banja Luka financial news outlet reports the Bosnian Serb secessionist regime under M. Dodik spent an est. $47 million on its recent lobbying efforts in the US, funneling the money through intermediaries in Vienna, Moscow, and DC. US lifted its sanctions vs Dodik in Oct. capital.ba/skidanje-san...
Skidanje sankcija SAD-a koštalo Srpsku 80 miliona KM
Vlada Republike Srpske povećala je drugim rebalansom budžet Ministarstva za evropske integracije i međunarodnu saradnju RS sa 54,9 na 94,6 miliona maraka
capital.ba
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Banja Luka financial news outlet reports the Bosnian Serb secessionist regime under M. Dodik spent an est. $47 million on its recent lobbying efforts in the US, funneling the money through intermediaries in Vienna, Moscow, and DC. US lifted its sanctions vs Dodik in Oct. capital.ba/skidanje-san...