Bosnias Paralysed Peace

Author : Christopher Bennett
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190608293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bosnia's Paralysed Peace written by Christopher Bennett and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scale of international investment in peace-building in Bosnia has been unprecedented. A plethora of international institutions, including the EU, the IMF, the OHR, the OSCE, the World Bank and the United Nations, as well as many development agencies, set about piecing the country together,a process cushioned by generous flows of aid. However, despite the massive international commitment in time, resources and effort, a decade and a half later Bosnia's peace is at best paralyzed. War remains a risk because of the myriad of unresolved issues, zero-sum politics and incompatiblepositions of rival ethno-national leaders.In the face of paralysis, international officials repeat the mantra that there is no alternative to Bosnia's European path and urge the country's leaders to see sense, to temper their rhetoric and to carry out internationally approved reforms. To no avail.Christopher Bennett argues that the failure of peace-building is the failure of the 'liberal peace model'. Policy-makers have focused on 'what should be' in terms of trying to reproduce Western liberal democracy, rather than 'what is' in Bosnia, where ethno-national security concerns remaincritically important to most people.Bennett's book offers a comprehensive analysis of stalled peace process. He concludes by proposing a paradigm shift in strategy aimed at ensuring a self-sustaining ethno-national security for all of its peoples.

Author : Elizabeth M. Cousens
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879426
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toward Peace in Bosnia written by Elizabeth M. Cousens and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cousens (director of research, International Peace Academy) and Cater (researcher, International Peace Academy) consider the limitations of the Dayton accords and their failure to produce peace, political reform, democracy, multiculturalism, and economic development in Bosnia. They consider internat

Author : Dražen Pehar
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633863015
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace as War written by Dražen Pehar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about the peace implementation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina viewed, or interpreted reasonably, as a continuation of war by other means. Twenty years after the beginning of the Dayton peace accords, we need to summarize the results: the author shares the general agreement in public opinion, according to which the process is a failure. Pehar presents a broad, yet sufficiently detailed, view of the entire peace agreement implementation that preserves 'the state of war,' and thus encourages the war-prone attitudes in the parties to the agreement. He examines the political and narratological underpinnings to the process of the imposed international (predominantly USA) interpretation of the Dayton constitution and peace treaty as a whole. The key issue is the – perhaps only semi-consciously applied – divide ut imperes strategy. After nearly twenty years, the peace in document was not translated into a peace on the ground because, with regard to the key political and constitutional issues and attitudes, Bosnia remains a deeply divided society. The book concludes that the international supervision served a counter-purpose: instead of correcting the aberration and guarding the meaning that was originally accepted in the Dayton peace treaty, the supervision approved the aberration and imposed it as a new norm under the clout of 'the power of ultimate interpretation.'

Author : Martina Fischer (historicus)
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825887933
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peacebuilding and Civil Society in Bosnia-Herzegovina written by Martina Fischer (historicus) and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dayton Accords ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995. The 10th anniversary gives reason to investigate the post-war period, today's realities and future perspectives. Bosnian authors and international experts express their views on recent developments. Insiders and outsiders, working in the conflict and on its transformation, have been invited to tackle the questions: Which conflict lines mark the present society? Did peacebuilding activities address the underlying causes? What are obstacles for conflict transformation? What are the potentials and limits of international support? What does "civil society" mean in Bosnia and how is it related to statebuilding and democratisation? How can people constructively deal with the past in order to design the future in the region of former Yugoslavia? The book gives an overview on an important research focus of the Berghof Research Center, highlighting the work of its most important cooperation partners.

Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136874488
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace without Politics? Ten Years of State-Building in Bosnia written by David Chandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years on from the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement in November 1995, the legacy of the Bosnian war still shapes every aspect of the political, social and economic environment of the tiny state. This state of affairs is highlighted by the fact that Bosnia is still under international control, with the Office of the International High Representative regularly using its powers to dismiss elected presidents, prime-ministers and MPs and to impose legislation over the resistance of elected legislatures at national, regional and local level. What has changed in the ten years since Dayton? Is international regulation helping to establish a sustainable peace in Bosnia? What lessons can be learned for nation-building in Bosnia? This volume was previously published as a special issue of the leading journal International Peacekeeping.

Author : Sumantra Bose
Publisher : C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bosnia After Dayton written by Sumantra Bose and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to place the Dayton Peace Agreement within the context of Bosnia's complex historical legacy.

Author : Carl Bildt
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780297841319
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Journey written by Carl Bildt and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amer Kapetanović
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789958884467
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Peace written by Amer Kapetanović and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard C. Holbrooke
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To End a War written by Richard C. Holbrooke and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains primary source material.

Author : Elliot Short
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350190950
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building a Multiethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina written by Elliot Short and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 1 January 2006, soldiers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina gathered to mark the official formation of a unified army; and yet, little over a decade before, these men had been each other's adversaries during the vicious conflict which left the Balkan state divided and impoverished. Building a Multi-Ethnic Military in Post-Yugoslav Bosnia and Herzegovina offers the first analysis of the armed forces during times of peace-building in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This sophisticated study assesses Yugoslav efforts to build a multi-ethnic military during the socialist period, charts the developments of the armies that fought in the war, and offers a detailed account of the post-war international initiatives that led to the creation of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. At this point, the military became the largest multi-ethnic institution in the country and was regarded as a model for the rest of Bosnian society to follow. As such, as Elliot Short adroitly contends, this multi-ethnic army became the most significant act in stabilising the country since the end of the Bosnian War. Drawing upon a wealth of primary sources – including interviews with leading diplomats and archival documents made available in English for the first time – this book explores the social and political role of the Bosnian military and in doing so provides fresh insight into the Yugoslav Wars, statehood and national identity, and peace-building in modern European history.