Political Conceptions of the Solution of the State-Legal Status of Bosnia and Herzegovina During the First World War

The major global geopolitical processes that took place on the world political scene during the twentieth century did not pass by Bosnia and Herzegovina, which, due to its importance, was often the target of Serbian and Croatian large-state policies that sought to annex it. The fact that even some Muslims fell under their influence shows how pronounced these projects were. Accordingly, it is especially important to thematize the period of the First World War, as a time when the epilogue of the future state-legal system of Bosnia and Herzegovina was quite unclear. The administrative conceptions foreseen for Bosnia and Herzegovina were lined up one after another from the neighborhood, but there were also those devised among the domestic political elite, which indicates the complexity of the issue of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the latter period. In this paper, we deal with different conceptions in the context of the solution of the state-legal status of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the First World War. The main assumption is that the political destiny of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the mentioned period was determined by external circumstances and the situation on the war front, and that Bosnia and Herzegovina did not wonder too much about its destiny. According to the context, we will chronologically analyze different state-legal concepts, and how they are accepted within Bosnia and Herzegovina.