In the National Interest, the Heritage Foundation’s Max Primorac blasts international interventionism in BiH, writing:
What originally began as ‘an ad hoc international institution’ to help the new country ‘evolve into a peaceful and viable democracy,’ has seen the [Office of the High Representative (OHR)] morph into a modern-day European Raj in perpetuity ‘with no checks and balances…and no accountability whether locally or internationally.’
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Every international intervention exacerbates ethnic relations and retards the development of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s democratic institutions.
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The unbounded authorities of this entire foreign-run enterprise are built on a juridical house of cards.
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President Trump could provide Bosnia and Herzegovina a fresh start by refusing to renew the OHR’s authorities and letting it, along with the three foreign supreme court judges, the bottom-feeding web of NGOs, and this last vestige of nation-building, lapse into the dustbin of history.
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