@article{2020:mujanovi:bosnia_and,
title = {Bosnia and Herzegovina’s eroding Dayton constitutional order},
year = {2020},
note = {On the 25th anniversary of the Dayton Agreement, this article assesses
the current state of Euro-Atlantic integration in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. Its starting point is that Dayton represented not a
breach but a continuation of the politics which destroyed Yugoslavia
and that salvaging the country’s democratic potential requires a
paradigmatic break from virtually all its socio-political practices
and institutions. In these contexts, the article’s central focus on
the ‘Bosnian Spring’ which took place right across the country in
(and in the run-up to) 2014 provides a salutary reminder of the
ability of ordinary people to come together to demand socio-economic
justice and, in doing so, to step out of the ethno-nationalist
rigidities imposed by Dayton. While those protests ran out of steam,
such events are the only ones by which elites can historically be
persuaded to concede democratic ground. Dismantling the
ethno-nationalist narrative remains the challenge and, when it becomes
clear that change will not come from within the system, it becomes the
task of ordinary citizens to create democratic institutions that are
worth the label.},
journal = {SEER Journal for Labour and Social Affairs in Eastern Europe},
pages = {145--164},
author = {Mujanović, Jasmin},
volume = {23},
number = {2}
}