The end of the Lagumdzija-Komsic Affair, and the future of the Federation – Transconflict

Gordon Bardos analyzes voting records to argue that the “manipulation of electoral loopholes and political disenfranchising of an entire ethnic group – Bosnia’s Croats – has further complicated efforts to reconcile the collective rights of ethnic groups with the rights of the individual.” This tension between collective and individual rights and its manipulation by nationalist politicians, in Bardos’s view, exacerbates the political dysfunction that has held back BiH–and the Federation in particular–since the signing of the Dayton Accords.

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