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In March 2024, the High Representative (HR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Christian Schmidt, once again used his "Bonn powers" under the Dayton Peace Agreement which, inter alia, enable him to impose substantial legislation. After a dark warning, he enacted a new package of reforms concerning the electoral process. While these reforms reflect the necessary and desirable changes in the process of the EU accession, concurrently resolving a political stalemate, this schmidtian mode also creates further political cleavages. Nevertheless, arguably a "Smith" has found a fairly clever way forward.

An interview with Lord "Paddy" Ashdown, High Representative of the international community in Bosnia and Herzegovina responsible for overseeing the Bosnian peace process since May 2002 and EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina. The interview covered many aspects of peacekeeping operations and the political situation in Bosnia, including challenges, the economic crisis, termination of NATO's SFOR and deployment of EUFOR, democratization versus international intervention; and potential Bosnian membership in the Partnership for Peace.

Christian Schwarz-Schilling, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, who will close the Office of the High Representative to allow local leadership, discusses issues related to his role in the region: challenges facing Bosnia and Herzegovina; priorities as High Representative; the timing of independence; the Bosnian economy; the need for the arrest and prosecution of Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic; Bosnia and Herzegovina's participation in the Partnership-for-Peace Programme and relationship with the European Union; and Schwarz-Schilling's future role as EU Special Representative to the region.

By applying the Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) developed by Kingdon and adapted to EU policy-making, this article explores a new analytical lens that provides a more substantiated insight into the role of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR) in the policy-making process. According to the MSA, policy change happens when policy entrepreneurs successfully explore a window of opportunity that opens in the problems or policies stream. Applying a single case-study approach, this article argues that it was the entrepreneurship of HR Federica Mogherini that coupled problems, politics and policies streams which presented themselves between 2014 and 2015, made use of the window of opportunity, and pushed for policy change in EU's foreign and security policy. By finding observable evidence for the HR's deployment of entrepreneurial strategies during the drafting and implementation of the European Union's Global Strategy, this contribution unpacks Mogherini's footprint in the recent progress. The conceptualization of the HR office-holder as a policy entrepreneur lets us systematically investigate their agency and impact on the policy change within the existing formal constraints, and thus it paves a way towards a more fruitful research direction regarding the HR's role than the concept of the constrained agent that is dominant in the literature. More broadly, since the office-holder can be perceived as a supranational agent that is dependent upon an intergovernmental system for its mandate, by examining its entrepreneurial strategies this article offers insights on the role of supranational agents beyond the EU context, i.e. within UN and NATO.