04124oam 22005654a 450 991082588820332120231009164238.0963-386-301-5(CKB)4100000008277083(MiAaPQ)EBC5778067(OCoLC)1102350053(MdBmJHUP)muse72439(DE-B1597)633452(DE-B1597)9789633863015(OCoLC)1338019065(EXLCZ)99410000000827708320190107d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPeace as WarBosniaHerzegovina PostDayton /Dražen PeharNew York :Central European University Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2019©2019.1 online resource (295 pages)963-386-302-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Document/law reading as peace unmaking -- Dediscoursification, or, The Dayton peace implementation as a continuation of the state of war -- UN GA S/1995/1021 : a "backward-looking" treaty? -- Politische Justiz, fictive histories, and irrationalizing interpretation at the Bosnian Constitutional Court (U 5/98-III) -- The issue of the Bosnia and Herzegovina election law : the curious case of Željko Komšić, our "Vidkun Quisling" -- Recognizing Bosnia's constituent ethnic identities -- Discursive mechanisms of political power -- The high representative : an engine of progress? -- "Junkyard dogs," "Viennese stable tenders" and the "savior of Bosnian Muslims" : American peace/war-making politics in Bosnia, to Dayton and beyond -- Misrepresentation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the US Congress."The book is about the peace implementation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina viewed, or interpreted reasonably, as a continuation of war by other means. Twenty years after the beginning of the Dayton Peace Accords, we need to summarize the results: the author shares the general agreement in public opinion, according to which the process is a failure. Pehar presents a broad, yet sufficiently detailed, view of the entire peace agreement implementation that preserves 'the state of war,' and thus encourages the war-prone attitudes in the parties to the agreement. He examines the political and narratological underpinnings to the process of the imposed international (predominantly USA) interpretation of the Dayton constitution and peace treaty as a whole. The key issue is the--perhaps only semi-consciously applied--divide ut imperes strategy. After nearly twenty years, the peace in document was not translated into a peace on the ground because, with regard to the key political and constitutional issues and attitudes, Bosnia remains a deeply divided society. The book concludes that the international supervision served a counter-purpose: instead of correcting the aberration and guarding the meaning that was originally accepted in the Dayton peace treaty, the supervision approved the aberration and imposed it as a new norm under the clout of 'the power of ultimate interpretation'"--Provided by publisher.War and societyBosnia and HerzegovinaPeace-buildingBosnia and HerzegovinaYugoslav War, 1991-1995PeaceBosnia and HerzegovinaForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsBosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and HerzegovinaEthnic relationsPolitical aspectsBosnia and HerzegovinaPolitics and government1992-Bosnia, Political studies, Post-communism, Yugoslav War, Dayton Agreement, Foreign relations.War and societyPeace-buildingYugoslav War, 1991-1995Peace.949.74203Pehar Dražen1967-1663263MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910825888203321Peace as War4020441UNINA