LEADER 03943oam 22005294a 450 001 9910494590403321 005 20200402172104.0 010 $a963-386-301-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000008277083 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5778067 035 $a(OCoLC)1102350053 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72439 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008277083 100 $a20190107d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPeace as War$eBosniaHerzegovina PostDayton /$fDraz?en Pehar 210 1$aNew York :$cCentral European University Press,$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2019 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) 311 $a963-386-302-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDocument/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 Z?eljko Koms?ic?, 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. 330 $a"The book is about the peace implementation process in Bosnia-Herzegovina viewed, or interpreted reasonably, as a continuation of war by other means. Twenty years after the beginning of the Dayton Peace Accords, we need to summarize the results: the author shares the general agreement in public opinion, according to which the process is a failure. Pehar presents a broad, yet sufficiently detailed, view of the entire peace agreement implementation that preserves 'the state of war,' and thus encourages the war-prone attitudes in the parties to the agreement. He examines the political and narratological underpinnings to the process of the imposed international (predominantly USA) interpretation of the Dayton constitution and peace treaty as a whole. The key issue is the--perhaps only semi-consciously applied--divide ut imperes strategy. After nearly twenty years, the peace in document was not translated into a peace on the ground because, with regard to the key political and constitutional issues and attitudes, Bosnia remains a deeply divided society. The book concludes that the international supervision served a counter-purpose: instead of correcting the aberration and guarding the meaning that was originally accepted in the Dayton peace treaty, the supervision approved the aberration and imposed it as a new norm under the clout of 'the power of ultimate interpretation'"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWar and society$zBosnia and Herzegovina 606 $aPeace-building$zBosnia and Herzegovina 606 $aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xPeace 607 $aBosnia and Herzegovina$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zBosnia and Herzegovina 607 $aBosnia and Herzegovina$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aBosnia and Herzegovina$xPolitics and government$y1992- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWar and society 615 0$aPeace-building 615 0$aYugoslav War, 1991-1995$xPeace. 676 $a949.74203 700 $aPehar$b Draz?en$f1967-$01053958 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494590403321 996 $aPeace as War$92486218 997 $aUNINA