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This book argues that the "international community" created and
managed the dysfunctional state of Bosnia and Herzegovina by
effectively rewarding ethnic cleansing, drawing up a transitional
constitution which, in turn, generated a complex ethnifying polity
incapable of independent reform. This constitution, which was only
added as an annex to the Dayton Peace Agreement, has continued to
encourage ethnification, understood in this book as the
reproduction of imagined communities of descent. While accepting
that foreign interference was necessary to end the war in the late
1990s, the book offers a critical review of the actions of the
Office of the High Representative of the International Community
(OHR) and other foreign actors since that period. It includes
meticulous examination of hundreds of OHR decisions, as well as
secret diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks revealing how the
US embassy intervened in the country's trade and foreign policy.
Drawing on a process-sociological perspective, the book
interrogates the notion of ethnicity and offers a radical new
perspective on post-war state-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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