Bosnia and Herzegovina at 26: Probing the Country's "Stabilitocracy" Through the Case of David Dragičević
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26482789%3A_____%2F22%3A10152456" target="_blank" >RIV/26482789:_____/22:10152456 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2022/4-2022/michaela-ulbrichtova.html" target="_blank" >http://www.politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/en/archive/2022/4-2022/michaela-ulbrichtova.html</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2022.25.4.181-212" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2022.25.4.181-212</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Bosnia and Herzegovina at 26: Probing the Country's "Stabilitocracy" Through the Case of David Dragičević
Original language description
The more than a quarter century-long engagement of the International Community (IC) and European Union (EU) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has contributed to the rise of "'stabilitocracy', that is, weak democracies with autocratically minded leaders, who govern through informal, patronage networks and claim to provide pro-Western stability" (Belloni, 2020, p. 236, BiEPAG, 2017, Bieber, 2018, Bieber 2020, Börzel and Grimm, 2018, Cvijic, 2020, Pavlović, 2017) in the Western Balkan region in general and BiH in particular. This article aims to further examine the stabilitocratic argument and its potentially destabilizing implications in terms of the EU/IC's practices in BiH while focusing on their reaction to the recent still under-researched 2018 civic protests and bottom-up mobilization triggered by the violent death of young student David Dragičević. As such, this study sheds the light on the ongoing dynamics of the interplay between the EU/IC and the BiH's ethnonationalist political leaders, as well as analyses the implications of this relationship on the daily reality of BiH citizens in reference to the 2018 mass public protests and investigation of David Dragičević's case. Additionally, the insights presented in this article are based on analysis of the primary data obtained from the three rounds of thirty-seven semi-structured interviews that took place in various cities in BiH in the period between September 2020 and August 2021, and also on an examination of the secondary sources associated with the EU/IC's peacebuilding activities in BiH. Overall, on the basis of the findings presented in the article, the continuation of the stabilitocratic path by the EU/IC could not only lead to additional loss of credibility for external actors' activities in BiH, but could also negatively influence the demanded stability within this country.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Politické vedy
ISSN
1335-2741
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Volume of the periodical
25/2022
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
32
Pages from-to
181-212
UT code for WoS article
000920475700006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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