20 Years after Dayton: International Engagement and Power Sharing in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the Dayton-Paris Peace Agreement, Bosnia and Herzegovina finds itself at a crossroads. The country is engaged in the process of European integration, yet is still a largely inefficient and highly fragmented state. This situation poses a challenge for reform-oriented domestic actors, the international community in general, and the European Union in particular. Please join us as Adis Merdzanovic presents his new book, Democracy by Decree: Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which offers a detailed analysis of international engagement since the end of the war and its consequences for the country and its politics.
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Junior Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Senior Adviser, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; former Director, Radio Free Europe
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park
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The Global Europe Program is focused on Europe’s capabilities, and how it engages on critical global issues. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues. We examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our initiatives include “Ukraine in Europe”—an examination of what it will take to make Ukraine’s European future a reality. But we also examine the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE, Europe’s energy security, transatlantic trade disputes, and challenges to democracy. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more