The Open Society Institute in Budapest announced (within the Framework of the International Higher Education Support Program) the Call for Papers for its Returning Scholars Fellowship Program 2006-2007.

Florian Bieber: Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance. London: Palgrave 2006.
[176 pp. + xvi.]

Ten years after the end of the war, ethnicity in Bosnia continues to matter and the country remains dependent on international intervention. The Dayton Peace Accords signed in 1995 successfully ended the war, but froze the ethnic conflict in one of the most complex systems of government in the world. The book provides an in-depth analysis of governance in this divided post-war country, providing important lessons for international intervention elsewhere around the world, from Afghanistan to Iraq.

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