CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Semanic, Hana |
|---|---|
| Title | The Role of Local Ownership in Defence and Police Reforms: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Summary | This paper analyses the dissimilar forms and modalities of local ownership in defence and police reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It first presents the statebuilding-related literature on the concept delineating local ownership in its theoretical terms. Then, the paper outlines the current political situation in the country focusing on the main international actors who have been engaged within the two reform processes. Finally, an analysis of their key policy documents together with the findings from the field work, gathered from both the international and local actors, show the discrepancy between the concept of local ownership in theoretical and practical terms. In order to understand this discrepancy, the created analytical framework is based on two mechanisms: monitoring, mentoring, advising (MMA) and its opposite executive powers, which are helpful tools to perceive whether they foster or undermine local ownership. The paper concludes by suggesting that regardless of the mechanisms used, there is no shared meaning of local ownership in defence and police reforms. In reality, there are only different modalities of the concept which depend on a number of overarching factors, such as the former political legacy, current political situation and the necessity of having an ethnic majority in the key decisions. |
| Supervisor | Kurowska, Xymena |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/semanic_hana.pdf |
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