Table of Contents:
  • Chapters
  • 1. An Important and Complex Place: Bosnia after Dayton 1
  • The importance of Bosnia 2
  • The complexity of Bosnia 10
  • Epilogue and prologue: a Bosnian Story 38
  • 2. A State by International Design? Liberal Internationalism and the Balkans 41
  • A question of legitimacy 42
  • Foundations of the Dayton peace 52
  • Structure of the Dayton state 60
  • Conclusion: dilemmas of liberal internationalism 89
  • 3. Mostar, 1994-2001: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention in a Bosnian Town 95
  • The city that was 99
  • War and partition 100
  • A tenuous bridge: international intervention in partitioned Mostar, 1994-2001 106
  • Politics: the persistence of polarization 116
  • Other dimensions of partition: economy, education, culture, symbols 131
  • Conclusion: lessons of Mostar 142
  • 4. Bosnia and the Partition Debate - an Intervention 149
  • Untangling the debate 161
  • Beyond the partition debate 199
  • 5. Democracy amid Division: the Institutional Architecture of the Dayton State 204
  • Bosnia's party system 206
  • Electoral integration 215
  • Federalism,federation and the Bosnian state 241
  • Consociational present, consociational future? 246
  • 6. Post-Yugoslav Futures: Lessons from (and for) International Intervention 253.