Dayton at 30 – Policing, Politics, and Statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dayton at 30 – Policing, Politics, and Statebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes the intertwining of political developments, the process of statebuilding, and the transformations in police agencies – their powers and policing practices – in a 30-year assessment of the Dayton order in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It argues that a dialectical and interdependent relationship exists between political dynamics, state functioning, and policing. This is evidenced over the last decade and a half by mounting state dysfunctionality and autocratization of ethno-nationalist politics, coupled with the stagnation of state-level police reform and rollback of the democratic police model in the entities and cantons through the politicization and militarization of police agencies.

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