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The evolution of Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH) as a functioning state after the Dayton Agreement is still questionable. Both international policymakers and local statesman are searching for a viable solution for the future of BiH as a unitary state, a self-sustainable political community. In the field of social sciences there is a need for a more specific type of explanation to tackle this complex reality of the relations between the Self and the Other (as the symbolic basis of ethnic/political cooperation) inside the process of Europeanization of BiH. The scope of the paper is two folded: first, it aims at describing in the constructivist theoretical framework the ethnic situation in Brčko District as an illustrative case study; second it wishes to complete the perspective with an institutional analysis that reflects the way socially constructed norms shape administrative performance. The time frame of the analysis is the last decade (since the final Award of the Brčko Arbitration in 1999 to the present day) and the conclusions will focus on the importance of the Brčko institutional evolution to the Europeanization of the entire BiH.

Our aim is to problematize Europeanization through education in EaP countries by studying the promotion of EU studies in higher education. The paper discusses the educational dimension of Europeanization in EaP countries from three interrelated perspectives - social constructivism, the Foucauldian concept of governmentality and a post-structuralist reading of centrality and marginality. We specifically focus on a series of international projects developed by the University of Tartu (Estonia) in partnership with other EU-based and non-EU universities from the EaP. We used qualitative data from reports of 4 EU-funded cooperation projects and also student's views obtained in 2 focus groups that explored how the EU is taught and discussed. In the end, the added value of the article is that it offers a critical view on teaching about the EU in the Eastern neighborhood, focusing on local perspectives on EU-funded projects in higher education.

The article will explore some potential causes of this limited process of Europeanization and its overallimpact on the malfunctioning of Bosnia. After a short conceptual overview inside the Europeanizationliterature and its connection with democratization, the analytical section of the article will focus on theparticular case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The main question to be tackled is: How democraticis the Europeanization process in Bosnia and who should be held accountable for the outcome afteralmost two decades-long effort? The subsequent analysis will try to bring a potential answer to thisconcern, using the intricate case of the Europeanization of BiH as an illustration for the ambivalent roleof the EU in the Western Balkans (WB) with the scope of pointing out some lessons which were notfully drawn from this process. The main conclusion is that the mixed strategy of EU that induced bothexternal pressure and local ownership under the EU conditionality created institutional blockage and ademocratic deficit

The article will explore some potential causes of this limited process of Europeanization and its overall impact on the malfunctioning of Bosnia. After a short conceptual overview inside the Europeanization literature and its connection with democratization, the analytical section of the article will focus on the particular case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The main question to be tackled is: How democratic is the Europeanization process in Bosnia and who should be held accountable for the outcome after almost two decades-long effort? The subsequent analysis will try to bring a potential answer to this concern, using the intricate case of the Europeanization of BiH as an illustration for the ambivalent role of the EU in the Western Balkans (WB) with the scope of pointing out some lessons which were not fully drawn from this process. The main conclusion is that the mixed strategy of EU that induced both external pressure and local ownership under the EU conditionality created institutional blockage and a democratic deficit. Adapted from the source document.