The United States and the European Union are pursuing policies seemingly designed to deepen BiH’s political crisis in the new year. Instead of confronting the true sources of BiH’s problems—attacks
Category: Editors’ Journal
The West pans Inzko’s lawless decree
Former High Representative Valentin Inzko’s parting shot against Serbs, an illegal decree criminalizing the expression of certain opinions about the war in BiH, drew united outrage from BiH’s Serbs as
Outgoing high representative attempts to rewrite the Dayton Accords
Outgoing High Representative Valentin Inzko has caused considerable political and diplomatic turmoil in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with his audacious attempt to single handedly rewrite the terms of a multilateral
Is BiH’s Constitution “retrograde”?
In a blog post on April 28, U.S. Ambassador to BiH Eric Nelson criticized politicians who “want to revert to a retrograde ‘Original Dayton.’” These comments closely resembled part of
Inzko’s Selective “Red Line”
Under Annex 10 of the Dayton Accords, the High Representative (HR) is supposed to “facilitate the Parties’ own efforts” and “[f]acilitate the resolution of any difficulties arising in connection with