1. Beyond international trusteeship: EU peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Author:
- Stefano Recchia
- Publication Date:
- 02-2007
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- European Union Institute for Security Studies
- Abstract:
- The Dayton Peace Agreement on Bosnia successfully ended the war in late 1995. However, the price for peace was an extremely weak and dysfunctional postwar state that would probably not have survived without substantial international support over the following decade. This paper argues that things have begun to visibly change on the ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) only with the emergence of the EU as the main international peacebuilding actor in more recent years, and notably since 2003. The EU's increased peacebuilding role in BiH, carried out within the framework of the European Security Strategy, has allowed for critical progress towards making Bosnia's common state institutions increasingly self-sustaining. There is no doubt that the potential does now exist to turn postwar Bosnia into a sustainable multi-ethnic democracy.
- Topic:
- Development and Peace Studies
- Political Geography:
- Europe, Bosnia, and Herzegovina