Introduction: Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 Years after Dayton

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr Soeren Keil is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Dr Valery Perry is Visiting Professor at the Sarajevo School of Technology and a Senior Associate of the Democratization Policy Council in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Notes

1. Francis Fukuyama, ‘The End of History’ The National Interest, Summer 1989, pp. 3–18, see also Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, New York: The Free Press, 1992.

2. On this debate, see for example: Mary Kaldor, New and Old Wars, 3^rd edition, London: Polity Press 2012.

3. Elizabeth Cousens and Charles Cater, Towards Peace in Bosnia – Implementing the Dayton Accords, London and Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001.

4. Sofia Sebastian, Post-War Statebuilding and Constitutional Reform – Beyond Dayton in Bosnia, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillian, 2014.

5. Ana E. Juncos, EU Foreign and Security Policy in Bosnia – The Politics of Coherence and Effectiveness, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 2013.

6. Louis Sell, ‘The Serb Flight from Sarajevo – Dayton's First Failure’ East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1996, pp. 179–202.

7. International Crisis Group, The Continuing Challenge of Refugee Return in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe Report No. 137, 13 December 2002 (http://www.crisisgroup.org/en/regions/europe/balkans/bosnia-herzegovina/137-the-continuing-challenge-of-refugee-return-in-bosnia-herzegovina.aspx)

8. Carrie Manning, ‘Political Elites and Democratic State-building Efforts in Bosnia and Iraq’ Democratization, Vol. 13, No. 5, 2006, pp. 724–738.

9. For the full text of the Bonn Summit Decision, see: www.ohr.int/pic/default.asp?content_id=5182

10. It is important to note that imposed laws were nearly always ultimately formally adopted by the appropriate local legislative bodies.

11. On this discussion see for example: Roberto Belloni, State Building and International Intervention in Bosnia, London: Routledge 2008.

12. See for the role of money and organised crime during the war: Peter Andreas. Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2008..

13. On the issue of state-capture see: Plamen Georgiev, Corruptive Patterns of Patronage in South East Europe, Heidelberg: Springer VS Research.

14. On this issue see Soeren Keil, Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate 2013.

15. Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

16. Arend Lijphart, ’Constitutional Design for Divided Societies'. Journal of Democracy. Vol. 15, No.2, pp. 96–109.

17. Matthew Hoddie and Caroline A. Hartzell (eds.). Ethnopolitics Special Issue: Segment States in the Developing Wolrd: Conflict's Cause or Cure? Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2014.

18. Soeren Keil, ‘The Political Conditions of Economic Development in the Western Balkans’ Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2015, pp. 82–94.

19. Valery Perry. ‘Return of the Structured Monologue’ Democratization Policy Council Blog. 14 July 2015. (available at http://www.democratizationpolicy.org/return-of-the-structured-monologue)

20. For a thorough assessment of the development in post-war Bosnia and more recent developments, see: Soeren Keil and Valery Perry (eds.), State-Building and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate 2015.