Conquered’ vs. ‘Octroyee’ Ownership
Police Reform and Conditionality in the EU’s Peace/Statebuilding of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12968715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giulio Venneri (0000-0002-2795-0757, Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of European Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1918-7173 • E-ISSN: 1918-7181 |
| Publisher | Canadian Center of Science and Education (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5539/res.v5n3p57 |
| OpenAlex | W2044602800 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
In 2004, police reform was identified as a key prerequisite for progress in the European Union (EU) accession process of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Three years later, that conditionality sparked one of the most severe crises in the country’s post-Dayton history. At that time, analysts focused mostly on the technical and security-related aspects of this reform. This article instead analyses the political developments that accompanied the reform, specifically the difficult confrontation between the EU and local elites. The paper posits that the failure of conditionality induced the EU to accept a more flexible and domestically-owned reform agenda. With the credibility of the whole European integration project for Bosnia and Herzegovina at risk, the EU refrained from further confrontation and softened its most critical demands, thus enabling local politicians to perform a ‘conquest’ of the reform agenda
Accession · Conditionality · CONQUEST · Credibility · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Public Administration
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |