1. Introduction and overview -- 2. The Washington consensus meets the political economy of conflict -- 3. State-making the Dayton way -- 4. Resistance and entrenchment : ethnic division, domestic power structures, and economic reform -- 5. Business as usual : international prescriptions for Bosnia's economic transition -- 6. The politics of privatization -- 7. The political economy of return -- 8. The social dimensions of peacebuilding and transition -- 9. Conclusion
Summary
A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war. Little progress has been made in transforming the country's war-shattered economy into a functioning market economy, this new study explains the principal dynamics that have led to this, and places Bosnia's economic transition process within the context of the country's broader post-conflict peacebuilding process. The central argument this book persuasively advances is that much of Bosnia's ongoing economic crisis, and its current reform stalema
