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 internationalintervention, and to
those with a specific interest in the Balkans.
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