POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA


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Sancaktar C.

BALKAN ARASTRMA ENSTITUSU DERGISI-JOURNAL OF BALKAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE-JBRI, cilt.7, ss.211-237, 2018 (ESCI) identifier

Özet

The Bosnian War between 1992 and 1995 prepared proper conditions for political and economic reconstruction of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the disintegration process of Yugoslavia. After the war and great destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina was reconstructed with the intervention of the USA and the Western European states (especially Germany, the UK, France), and the Dayton Agreement as a very complex and fragmented federation in the political sphere and a periphery capitalist country in the economic sphere. More importantly, the Western states' intervention and the Dayton arrangements created an "international protectoral rule" in BosniaHerzegovina under the control and command of the USA, the Western European states and international organizations. This painful destruction and politicaleconomic reconstruction process in Bosnia-Herzegovina is discussed and explained in the article.