Nurkić, Benjamin Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-8906-2288 Isanović, Admir Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-10-01 eng

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Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) is notoriously hard to govern. Scarred from a bloody war in the 1990s after the collapse of Yugoslavia, the country’s constitutional order emerged in international peace talks in the United States. What later became famous as the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA) might have stopped the war but, in our opinion, sowed the seeds for complex democratic problems today. As we will show in this text, the ECtHR’s judgments represent a false hope for democracy in B&H, because ethnopolitical parties in B&H will not agree on how to implement the ECtHR’s judgments and the Office of the High Representative will not take a more active role in this context. We therefore argue against an earlier contribution on this blog by Woelk (2023), who suggested that the solution for the implementation of the ECtHR’s judgments should come from within the country, as we will show, ethnopolitical actors do not have a real interest in implementing these judgments. To put it bluntly, change from within is, alas, pie in the sky. It is much more likely that nothing changes and the powers that are remain the powers that will be. CC BY-SA 4.0 Nurkić, Benjamin Balkans Dayton democracy ECtHR War Yugoslavia 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/false-hope-for-democracy-in-bosnia-herzegovina/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20231001-132225-0 231001 10.17176/20231001-132225-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)