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 an examination of future challenges to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community.
This book outlines some basic trends, focusing on three essential issues facing this country: democratisation 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.
“Christophe Solioz – an expert involved in the Balkans for over a decade – reviews key moments in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-war development. Highlighting the complexity of the ownership process as well as the necessity to foster local responsibility, Solioz focuses on state-building and European integration that will evolve by implicit necessity and not by fiat or decree.” Wolfgang Petritsch
“With Turning Points in Post-War Bosnia Christophe Solioz not only provides a useful assessment of the Bosnian reality, but suggests truly workable solutions to the problems still facing our country, despite the many achievements of the Dayton decade. Indeed, adoption of at least some of these proposed solutions, by both the domestic and international political structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would move Bosnia forward.” Jakob Finci
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2007
ISBN-Print
978-3-8329-2513-0
ISBN-Online
978-3-8452-0268-6
Publisher
Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series
Demokratie, Sicherheit, Frieden
Volume
179
Language
English
Pages
171
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Table of contents
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
Acknowledgements No access Pages 7 - 8
List of Acronyms No access Pages 9 - 10
Foreword by Jakob Finci (Sarajevo) No access Pages 11 - 12
Introduction No access Pages 13 - 16
New approaches No access Pages 17 - 22
Perceptions of ethnic warfare and (dis)integration processes No access Pages 22 - 26
Democratisation and transition processes No access Pages 26 - 31
Towards new peace-building processes No access Pages 31 - 38
Why Bosnian civil society matters No access Pages 38 - 48
OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina’s field experience No access Pages 48 - 57
Challenges for the Stability Pact and for Bosnia No access Pages 57 - 60
Informality and formality of social networks No access Pages 61 - 67
Past and present [in]formal networks in Bosnia No access Pages 67 - 84
State building, [in]formal networks and foreign intervention No access Pages 84 - 85
State building in a globalising world No access Pages 86 - 87
Structural defects and challenges of the IC’s intervention No access Pages 87 - 93
The first post-war turning point No access Pages 93 - 98
The responsibility of the international community and of Bosnian politicians No access Pages 98 - 104
The challenge of controlled democracy and the future of Bosnia No access Pages 104 - 106
Ten years of Dayton and beyond No access Pages 107 - 117
Integration as a multilayered process No access Pages 117 - 133
The strategic issue: Conditionality versus ownership No access Pages 133 - 139
Forthcoming changes No access Pages 139 - 143
What the EU has not done in the past and what it can do No access Pages 144 - 147
Western Balkans: First case of a ‘Wider Europe’? No access Pages 147 - 149
Western Balkans: The last case of the EU? No access Pages 149 - 150
EU’s future: Strong and inclusive or weak and exclusive? No access Pages 150 - 152
Afterword by Tihomir Loza (London) No access Pages 153 - 155
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 156 - 170
About the Author No access Pages 171 - 171
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