BORROWED SOVEREIGNTY AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS IN DEEPLY DIVIDED SOCIETIES
Case Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.56550/d.3.2.4Keywords:
State-building, Foreign intervention agencies, Post-conflict societies, Paternalist proxy governanceAbstract
The main goal of this paper is to evaluate international community approaches towards resolving institutional problems in deeply divided societies that have experienced the trauma of civil war in their recent past. International actors decided to “borrow sovereignty” to these countries through different international interventions. With temporal distance, we can now conclude that the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are proof that similar intervention arrangements can have completely different outcomes. The main problem in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is that the Office of High Representative (OHR) has transformed a “permanent peace process” into a “permanent Berlin Congress.” In comparison to Kosovo, the different outcomes in the two cases are the result of two different paradigms of foreign intervention: one is a “parasitic paradigm” (BIH), in which external actors perpetuate an extraordinary state without stability and democratisation; the second is a “decomposing paradigm” (Kosovo), in which the same actors slowly weaken their positions by transferring powers to domestic institutions.
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