Suchergebnisse

Since the Dayton Peace Agreement, an international High Representative based in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has been charged with guiding and monitoring the country's peace implementation process. As the High Representative has come to play an increasingly active role in the country and to exercise governmental or public power in his own right, a complex system of 'public power regulation' has developed. Pursuant to this system, the public power exercised by domestic governmental authorities in BiH is regulated both through local checks and constraints (e.g. democratic elections and judicial review) and through interventions by the High Representative. In turn, the High Representative has allowed for some regulation of his own public power by international actors and actors/institutions within BiH. However, opportunities for regulating the High Representative are quite limited, raising concerns about the legitimacy of his exercise of public power in the country. (Ethnopolitics)

The authors discuss three specific dimensions of the internationalized state-building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past 10 years. First, they examine the complexity of the conflict settlement established by the Dayton Accords and the wide range of factors within Bosnia and Herzegovina affecting their success or failure. The authors then turn their attention to two further dimensions: the nature and mechanisms of the international community's post-1995 involvement in the country and the regional context within this internationally driven, -resourced and -guaranteed state-building venture took place. (Ethnopolitics, ECMI)