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Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina. TRAVAILS OF THE EUROPEAN RAJ
Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina. TRAVAILS OF THE EUROPEAN RAJ

Author(s): Gerald Knaus, Felix Martin
Subject(s): Governance, Post-Communist Transformation, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Corruption - Transparency - Anti-Corruption
Published by: ESI – European Stability Initiative
Keywords: Bosnia as failed state; Bosnian stagnation; Paddy Ashdown; High Representative; Republika Srpska;
Summary/Abstract: Six years after the end of the fighting in BiH, and despite possibly the largest amount of democratization assistance per capita ever spent in one country, the international mission to BiH has arrived at this paradoxical conclusion: What Bosnia and Herzegovina needs is not democratic domestic politics, but government by international experts.

  • Page Count: 15
  • Publication Year: 2003
  • Language: English