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State Building and International Intervention in Bosnia (Paperback)
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State Building and International Intervention in Bosnia (Paperback)
Series: Security and Governance
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The presence of international missions in weak and failing states
across the globe confirms that multi-lateral involvement has become
a strategic imperative to secure international peace and security.
With demands for democratic governance and peaceful coexistence in
countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq, the questions and issues
addressed in Bosnia take on greater urgency. Focussing on Bosnia
after the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) in 1995, this book examines
the role of the international community in state building and
intervention. It makes two arguments that challenge conventional,
power-sharing approaches to conflict management based on group
representation and elite collusion. First, the author explores the
idea that effective intervention requires moving beyond the
dichotomy between international imposition of state-building
measures and local self-government. When compromise among the
former warring parties proves impossible and domestic institutions
cannot autonomously guarantee efficient policy-making, the presence
of international staff in domestic institutions can guarantee
further democratisation and local ownership of the peace process.
Second, this book argues that the long-term transformation of
conflict requires the active involvement and empowerment of
domestic civil society groups. Instead of considering domestic
society as a desolate blank slate, international intervention needs
to build on local resources and assets, which are available even in
the aftermath of a devastating war. Based on extensive field
research this book will be of interest to students, scholars and
policy makers struggling to understand and improve upon the
dynamics of international intervention, and to those with a
specific interest in the Balkans.
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