Coping with Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Critical Problems: Reconsidering the International Community’s Role
Coping with Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Critical Problems: Reconsidering the International Community’s Role

Summary/Abstract: Fifteen years after the Dayton Peace Agreement, Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) is still not capable of solving major structural and political problems, and no progress has been achieved on the reforms that people believe will carry the country to success. Being unable to solve these problems leads further pending political, social and economic problems to become more serious. If the situation continues, it is likely that Bosnia-Herzegovina will enter into a process of disintegration which also means a failure of the International Community (the US and the EU) and the reform efforts that were guided from the very beginning. Due to the lack of inter-communal consensus, the local political actors are far from making any positive contribution to the reform process, and once again the burden falls on the shoulders of the International Community. However, the contemporary setup of the International Community and the way it approaches these problems is far from a remedy for BiH. Therefore it is necessary that the International Community’s structure and its approach to the problems be reconsidered. In this study the most urgent political, social and economic problems of BiH are going to be discussed. In addition, structural changes that can be made to make the International community a more capable actor in BiH are evaluated.

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