Bosnia's paralysed peace / Christopher Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Christopher, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Peace-building.

Bosnia and Herzegovina--Politics and government--1992-.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 388 pages : map ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Bosnia's paralyzed peace

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Deep-rooted conflict 1

Peace-building challenge 8

Measuring success 11

2 The Bosnian Question 15

Balancing act 15

Ethno-national identities and rivalries 17

Brotherhood and unity 25

3 Disintegration 33

End of communism 33

Democratic dawn 38

Descent into war 44

4 War and peace 52

Self-determination, legitimacy and hostilities 52

Recognition and recrimination 59

Peace-brokering amid ethnic cleansing 66

Getting to Dayton 73

5 Elections at any price 80

Peace or just a ceasefire! 80

Contours of the settlement 85

Civilian mobilisation 92

Elections, pseudo-democracy and institutional paralysis 97

6 Overriding 'democracy' to implement Dayton 107

Changing course 107

Promoting 'moderates' 114

Building multi-ethnicity 121

Justice 130

Institution-building 142

Euro-Atlantic integration 153

7 Rhetoric and reality 165

Assessing the process 165

Limits of liberal peace-building 171

Dark side of democracy 177

8 Whither Bosnia? 184

Diplomatic autopilot 184

Zero-sum politics and ever-rising tension 193

Transitioning 201

Reforms and responsibility 209

Deadlock, decay and debt 216

Prospects 228

9 Changing the logic of Bosnian politics 241

Recognising failure 241

Salience of ethno-national security 247

Revisiting the Bosnian Question 253

10 Conclusion 266

Treating symptoms 266

Post-conflict to pre-conflict 271

Changing incentives 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780190608538

0190608536

OCLC:

933273947