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International Statebuilding as contentious politics: the case of post conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Outi Keranen
Outi Keranen*
Affiliation:
Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
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∗Email: o.e.keranen@lse.ac.uk
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Abstract

The post-conflict space in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been marked by a multiplicity of statebuilding projects: in addition to the much-analyzed internationally-led statebuilding process, parallel Bosniak, Bosnian Serb and Bosnian Croat statebuilding trajectories exist. They seek to undermine and challenge the international statebuilding venture by appropriating and adapting the liberal statebuilding processes. This is carried out through the institutions and processes of governance put in place by international statebuilders to subvert the statebuilding trajectory. Focusing on the local appropriation of processes and institutions of governance, the paper maps out the repertoires of contention entailing boycotts, walk-outs, protests and refusals to co-operate in an attempt to explain and understand how local contention vis-à-vis the international statebuilding trajectory is carried out.

Keywords

statebuildingliberal peacecontentious politics
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Articles
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Europeanization, State-Building and Democratization in the Western Balkans , May 2013 , pp. 354 - 370
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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