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The siege wall and its after-effects: Sarajevo

What is a siege? A siege is the action, on the part of an enemy force, of surrounding a city to block its communications in order to subdue it or conquer it. By definition, siege pertains to an action carried out on human communication. More precisely, it implies action on the part of a subject, an agent, in order to block the action of another subject, another agent. We have, then, agents and their possibility of communication; but one of the agents – the besieger – possesses the intention and the concrete ability to control the communications of the besieged. Without this, there can be no siege. In the brief historical overview of the topic of siege written by Toynbee, the perspective chosen by the British scholar overturns the relationship of the terms invoked in the above definition. Toynbee chooses between besieged and besieger, the former term as the starting point for his study about a few European cities sharing the experience of a common event: having endured the aggression of enemy forces. The greatness of these cities, their prestige, is imponderable in many ways. It does not depend merely on material factors that can be concretely and statistically detected, but also on an immaterial value, created and supported by a shared perception and by the widespread awareness of historical challenges that have been met and overcome.