Democracy by Decree: Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Couverture souple

Merdzanovic, Adis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3838207920 ISBN 13 : 9783838207926

Editeur : Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild/Schoen gbr, 2015

Synopsis

The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community's preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism guarantees the inclusion of all groups in the political process and prevents a 'tyranny' of the majority over one or more minorities. However, if international actors keep intervening in the political process, the advantages of consociationalism are turned upside down. In this exceptional book, Adis Merdzanovic develops a theoretical and empirical approach to understanding consociational democracies that include external intervention. Using the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the consociational Dayton Peace Agreement ended the three-year war between Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks twenty years ago, it elaborates on the different approaches used in the past and gives practical recommendations for future state-building exercises by the international community.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adis Merdzanovic is a visiting Junior Research Fellow at South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild/Schoen gbr
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3838207920
• ISBN 13: 9783838207926
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 421
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible