Turning Points in Post-War Bosnia: Ownership Process and European Integration

By Christophe Solioz

The tenth anniversary of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement in December 2005 provides an important milestone, encouraging a review of its achievements and shortcomings, and examining future challenges to Bosnia and Herzegovina and the international community. This book outlines some basic trends, focusing on three essential issues facing this country: democratization and transitions processes, country ownership, and potential turning points. Addressing these issues in a non-dogmatic way in the spirit of constructive criticism, the book concludes that both the EU and Bosnia must seize their opportunities and responsibilities. As the Dayton decade draws to an end, the next chapter in Bosnia's history must be a European one, and it must start now. Highlighting the complexity of the ownership process as well as the necessity to foster local responsibility, the book focuses on state-building and European integration that will evolve by implicit necessity and not by fiat or decree. The proposed solutions, by both the domestic and international political structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina, would move Bosnia forward.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3832925139
• ISBN13: 9783832925130
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Length: 171 Pages