Bosnian protests are now challenging normative assumptions about “democracy development”.
![Bosnian citizens are used to having their political situation qualified with numerous conditional clauses, writes Hajdarpasic [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20142197420835580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Edin Hajdarpasic teaches history at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of a forthcoming book titled Whose is Bosnia? Political Imagination and Nation-Formation in the Modern Balkans.
Bosnian protests are now challenging normative assumptions about “democracy development”.
![Bosnian citizens are used to having their political situation qualified with numerous conditional clauses, writes Hajdarpasic [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/20142197420835580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)