Turning Points in Post-war Bosnia

by Solioz, Christophe

• ISBN13: 9783832925130
• ISBN10: 3832925139
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-31
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Mbh & Co

Summary

The tenth anniversary of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement in December 2005 provides an important milestone, encouraging a review of its achievements and shortcomings, and examining future challenges to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community. This book outlines some basic trends, focusing on three essential issues facing this country: democratization and transitions processes, country ownership, and potential turning points. Addressing these issues in a non-dogmatic way in the spirit of constructive criticism, the book concludes that both the EU and Bosnia must seize their opportunities and responsibilities. As the Dayton decade draws to an end, the next chapter in Bosnia's history must be a European one, and it must start now. Highlighting the complexity of the ownership process as well as the necessity to foster local responsibility, the book focuses on state-building and European integration that will evolve by implicit necessity and not by fiat or decree. The propose

Table of Contents

From protectorate to sovereignty	p. 17
New approaches	p. 17
Perceptions of ethnic warfare and (dis)integration processes	p. 22
Democratisation and transition processes	p. 26
Towards new peace-building processes	p. 31
Why Bosnian civil society matters	p. 38
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina's field experience	p. 48
Challenges for the stability pact and for Bosnia	p. 57
Informality in Bosnia	p. 61
Informality and formality of social networks	p. 61
Past and present [in]formal networks in Bosnia	p. 67
State building, [in]formal networks and foreign intervention	p. 84
The art of the possible	p. 86
State building in a globalising world	p. 86
Structural defects and challenges of the IC's intervention	p. 87
The first post-war turning point	p. 93
The responsibility of the international community and of Bosnian politicians	p. 98
The challenge of controlled democracy and the future of Bosnia	p. 104
Moving towards the turning point	p. 107
Ten years of Dayton and beyond	p. 107
Integration as a multilayered process	p. 117
The strategic issue : conditionality versus ownership	p. 133
Forthcoming changes	p. 139
The Balkans in post-referendum Europe	p. 144
What the EU has not done in the past and what it can do	p. 144
Western Balkans : first case of a 'wider Europe'?	p. 147
Western Balkans : the last case of the EU?	p. 149
EU's future : strong and inclusive or weak and exclusive?	p. 150
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