POLITICAL INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: THREE PATHS TO RECOVERY CONSIDERED
POLITICAL INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: THREE PATHS TO RECOVERY CONSIDERED

Summary/Abstract: Brad K. Blitz examines whether the Dayton Peace Agreement provisions might form a possible basis for de facto reunification of BiH. When writing (1998), Blitz felt that political and economic unification would be most likely following a political implosion of Republika Srpska; but that redistributive policies towards the regions, investment in education and economic R&D, and reduction in military expenditure would be key enabling factors. "The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) which ended the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina established a new federal arrangement through which two entities, the Muslim-Croat Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska (RS), would evolve towards economic integration. While institutionalizing internal political divisions, the DPA also leaves open the possibility that the entities may elect closer cooperation and even unification through greater inter-entity coordination and amendments to the federal constitution which appears as an appendix". (...)

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