Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Does the Road to Confederation go through the EU?
@article{Perry2015ConstitutionalRI, title={Constitutional Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Does the Road to Confederation go through the EU?}, author={Valery Perry}, journal={International Peacekeeping}, year={2015}, volume={22}, pages={490 - 510} }
This article considers Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH)'s constitutional reform path options following the 20-year anniversary of the Dayton Agreement that ended the war. The need for substantive structural and constitutional reform has not gone away, and there is an open question on whether and how Euro-Atlantic integration processes might influence reform outcomes. First, a brief review of constitutional reform efforts to date is presented. Second, arguments for and against constitutional reform…
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