| Description |
1 online resource : map (black and white) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Deep-rooted conflict -- Peace-building challenge -- Measuring success -- The Bosnian question. Balancing act -- Ethno-national identities and rivalries -- Brotherhood and unity -- Disintegration. End of communism -- Democratic dawn -- Descent into war -- War and peace. Self-determination, legitimacy and hostilities -- Recognition and recrimination -- Peace-brokering and ethnic cleansing -- Getting to Dayton -- Elections at any price. Peace or just a ceasefire? -- Contours of the settlement -- Civilian mobilization -- Elections, pseudo-democracy and institutional paralysis -- Overriding 'democracy' to implement Dayton. Changing course -- Promoting 'moderates' -- Building multi-ethnicity -- Justice -- Institution-building -- Euro-Atlantic integration -- Rhetoric and reality. Assessing the process -- Limits of liberal peace-building -- Dark side of democracy -- Whither Bosnia? Diplomatic autopilot -- Zero-sum politics and ever-rising tension -- Transitioning -- Reforms and responsibility -- Deadlock, decay and debt -- Prospects -- Changing the logic of Bosnian politics. Recognising failure -- Salience of ethno-national security -- Revisiting the Bosnian question -- Conclusion. Treating symptoms -- Post-conflict to pre-conflict -- Changing incentives |
| Summary |
Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a state of political, social and economic paralysis. As the international community has downgraded its presence, conditions have deteriorated, irredentist agendas have resurfaced and the outlook is increasingly negative. War remains a risk because of myriad unresolved issues, zero-sum politics and incompatible positions among rival ethno-national elites. In this work, Christopher Bennett presents a cautionary political history of Bosnia's disintegration, war and peace process. He concludes by proposing a paradigm shift aimed at building ethno-national security and making the peace settlement self-sustaining |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2014 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2016) |
| Subject |
Peace-building -- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Peace-building
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Politics and government -- 1992- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004466
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| Subject |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190638450 |
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0190638451 |
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9780190608293 |
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0190608293 |
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