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13 - Bosnia-Herzegovina since 1991

from Part Four - Yugoslav Successor States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2019

By
Florian Bieber
Edited by
Sabrina P. Ramet  and
Christine M. Hassenstab
Sabrina P. Ramet
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
Christine M. Hassenstab
Affiliation:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
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Summary

Bosnia-Herzegovina experienced a traumatic war that led to the death of over 100,000 citizens and the displacement of half the population. The Dayton Peace Accords have regulated post-war reconstruction and politics since 1995, resulting in a complex power-sharing system that relied heavily on extensive international intervention in the first post-war decade. Subsequent international disengagement and the persistence of nationalist and clientalist political parties has led to stagnation characterized by high levels of political polarization and limited progress in terms of economic development or Euro-Atlantic integration. The narratives of the war remain present and mutually exclusive.

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DaytonSerbsBosniaksCroatspower-sharingclientalismwar
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Central and Southeast European Politics since 1989 , pp. 342 - 361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Further Reading

Bieber, Florian. Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, inequality and public sector governance (London: Palgrave, 2006).Google Scholar
Bose, Sumantra. Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist partition and international intervention (London: Hurst, 2002).Google Scholar
Bougarel, Xavier, Helms, Elissa, and Duijzings, Ger (eds.), The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, memories and moral claims in a post-war society (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).Google Scholar
Chandler, David (ed.), Peace without Politics? Ten years of state-building in Bosnia (London: Routledge, 2005).Google Scholar
Donais, Timothy. The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia (London: Routledge, 2005).Google Scholar
Keil, Soeren. Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina (London: Routledge, 2014).Google Scholar
Keil, Soeren and Perry, Valery (eds.). State-Building and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina (London: Routledge, 2015).Google Scholar
Nettlefield, Lara J. Courting Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Hague Tribunal’s impact in a postwar state (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).Google Scholar
Toal, Gerard and Dahlman, Carl T., Bosnia Remade: Ethnic cleansing and its reversal (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).Google Scholar

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