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US SANCTIONS ARE FAILING TO PREVENT BOSNIAN SERB
PEACE VIOLATIONS
Daniel Serwer
August 8, 2023
I am pleased to publish this piece by Ajdin
Muratovic, a Washington, D.C.-based Security Fellow at the Truman
National Security Project. He has extensive experience working,
studying, and living across Eastern Europe. Targeted sanctions—an
increasingly popular item in Washington’s Western Balkans
toolkit—are supposed to change behavior and deter future
malign conduct. Yet the sanctions the US has leveled against Bosnian
Serb leader Milorad Dodik for violating the peace agreement that
ended the Bosnian war are failing...
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THE BETTER ANSWER TO
THE DAYTON QUESTION IS
BANKRUPTCY NOW
Daniel Serwer
August 7, 2023
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Last week I engaged in the following exchange with Marko Atila
Hoare (@markoah). He knows much more about Bosnia and
Herzegovina than I ever will: Marko: But do you think additional
EUFOR troops would be a good thing ? I am concerned that if and
when...
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WHAT RUSSIA REALLY
WANTS IN THE BALKANS
By Vesna Pusic
November 23, 2021,
Foregn Policy
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The legendary Bosnian journalist Boro Kontic said recently that
Bosnia and Herzegovina feels like a decades-long Groundhog Day:
Agreements are being signed, institutions founded and built,
applications submitted, elections won and lost...
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BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA: TIME TO
STOP THE
NONSENSE
Daniel Serwer
October 25, 2021
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Milorad Dodik, the Serb member of the tripartite presidency of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, has been threatening withdrawal from the
state’s army, its taxation authority, its intelligence
and law
enforcement apparatus, and its judiciary. Dodik also denies the
authority of the...
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THE FALL OF ZEPA
SHOWED BOSNIAN SERB
FORCES’ CRUELTY
Edward P. Joseph
July 25, BIRN
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Twenty-five years ago, the isolated, besieged Bosniak enclave of
Zepa fell, concluding a three-week burst of human expungement on
a scale
not seen in Europe since World War II. I was in Zepa when it
capitulated on July 25, 1995, one...
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RS IN DOUBT
Daniel Serwer
February 13, 2020
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Delvin Kovač of Vijesti.ba asked questions; I
answered:
Representatives of Republika Srspska (RS) at the
level of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) will suspend their
participation in decision-making on any matter within the
jurisdiction of the BiH authorities until...
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BOSNIA’S VOLATILITY
Janusz Bugajski
10 October 2018
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On
6 October, the three main nationalist formations that have
dominated all political institutions were
re-elected
by their
respective ethnic constituents. The results indicate
that Bosnia’s administration will remain gridlocked and
the country paralyzed in its aspirations toward EU...
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EYES ON THE PRIZE
Daniel Serwer
February 14, 2018
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Republika Srpska (RS)–the
Serb-controlled 49% of Bosnia and
Herzegovina–is equipping its police with automatic rifles as
well as reportedly initiating counter-
terrorism training with Russia. Does this matter?
Is it a threat to a cold Balkans peace
that has lasted more than 22 years? This news...
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THE APPALLING
REALITY OF BOSNIA’S
MISSING DEAD
By Ed Vulliamy
12 December 2016
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They are the unquiet dead. Laid out in rows across the interior
space of a former industrial building on the edge of the Bosnian
town of Sanski Most, the remains of human beings, in various
degrees of integration.
Some of the...
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DODIK’S FOLLY
Daniel Serwer
September 28, 2016
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American University Professor Ulas Doga Uralp asked last night
whether I
had written anything about
the Bosnian Serb
referendum, which passed Sunday with over 99%
voting “yes.” Turnout was modest: somewhere
around 55%. The issue on the ballot was...
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FILLING BOSNIA’S
REFORM GAPS
Daniel Serwer
March 1, 2016
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This USAID “gap analysis”
for Bosnia and Herzegovina dropped
into my inbox last week. I encourage those interested in the
prospects
for political and economic reform there to have a flip through
the powerpoint slides. Bottom line: whatever the...
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DAYTON PLUS 20, AGAIN
Daniel Serwer
November 21, 2015
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Here are the conclusions I offered at the Dayton Peace Accords
at 20 Conference
in Dayton, Ohio, which ended yesterday: Context matters. Dayton
was not
just about Bosnia but represented a test of the
West’s effort to achieve a Europe whole and free at
the start of the post-Cold
War era. That’s one reason it got the...
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REFORM WITHOUT
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
Daniel Serwer
November 18, 2015
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The Center for Transatlantic Relations conference on Twenty
Years after Dayton: Prospects for Progress in Reforms in Bosnia
and Herzegovina wrapped up yesterday. Here are ten of my main
takeaways: 1.The Reform Agenda the
Europeans, the...
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BOSNIA’S WAY FORWARD
Daniel Serwer
November 16, 2015
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Here are the remarks I prepared for the conference at SAIS today
and tomorrow on Twenty Years after
Dayton: Prospects for
Progress in Reforms in
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
1. I want first to thank my colleagues at the Center for Transatlantic Relations
here at SAIS...
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BOSNIA AND
HERZEGOVINA
IN PERIL ONCE AGAIN
The upcoming referendum
in Republika Srpska has
the potential to
disrupt
Bosnia and Herzegovina's
entire state structure.
Where to
turn next?
Adis Merdzanovic
30 September 2015
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Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) once again finds itself in a
perilous...
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EUROPE TAKES A TURN
Daniel Serwer
January 16, 2015
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Sead Numanovic of the Bosnian daily Avaz yesterday asked some
questions
about the visit of Foreign Ministers
Hammond (UK)
and Steinmeier (Germany) to Sarajevo to press
implementation of their
initiative to hasten reform in Bosnia
and Herzegovina. I replied: 1...
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TRANSCONFLICT
Many Bosniak political and
media opinion
makers are
discovering
that their best
option involves using a
traditional and, in the context
of
current borders,
transnational
ethnic movement to improve their
leverage with
their neighbours and
the EU.
By David B. Kanin
September 14th, 2011
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Ongoing debates in the Bosniak community...
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IWPR'S ICTY TRIBUNAL
UPDATE
No. 708, September 12, 2011 |
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PERISIC FIRST BELGRADE OFFICIAL CONVICTED FOR BOSNIA CRIMES:
But observers say judgement falls short of establishing what
exactly Serbia's role was during the Bosnian conflict; By Rachel
Irwin
PERISIC VERDICT DISAPPOINTS BOSNIANS: Judges' ruling
unlikely to enable Bosnia to relaunch genocide lawsuit against
Serbia; By Dzenana...
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THE DEATH OF
THE BOSNIAN
STATE
Morton Abramowitz,
James Hooper
July 20, 2011 |
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The
Dayton Accords left Bosnia a divided ethnic quasi state, and
their implementation has not much changed that fact. The
decisive event solidifying the ethnic divide was the failure to
stop the exodus of several hundred thousand Serbs from...
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BOSNIA'S
EX-SOLDIERS UNITE
OVER SHARED
WOES
Former foes find common ground in protest
over
army pensions and
unemployment.
By Selma Boracic -
International Justice -
ICTY,
TRI Issue 686, 30 Mar 11 |
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When war broke out in Bosnia in 1992, Nermin Karacic, a Bosniak
from Sarajevo, was just 19 years old. He knew nothing about war
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SEIEGE WAS "NOOSE"
AROUND SARAJEVANS
BBC man recounts hardships and risks faced by
residents during the 44-month campaign against their city.
By Velma Šaric
International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 675, 14 Jan 11
British journalist Jeremy Bowen told the Hague
tribunal trial of Radovan Karadzic this week that he believed the
siege of
Sarajevo was used as a weapon of war by the
Bosnian Serbs.
"It was simply a noose around the neck of the ordinary people in the
city which could be tightened and loosened as necessary," he said.
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BOSNIA:
EUROPE'S
TIME TO ACT
Europe Briefing N°59,
11 Jan 2011
OVERVIEW
After years of hesitancy, European Union (EU)
member states should
make 2011 the year when
the lead international
role
in Bosnia and Herzegovina shifts from the Office of the High
Representative (OHR) to a reinforced EU
delegation. Bosnia has
outgrown the OHR
established in 1995 after
the Dayton Peace
Agreement and the creation of the Peace
Implementation Council
(PIC). Today the country needs EU technical...
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INSTITUTE FOR WAR &
PEACE REPORTING
WITNESS TELLS OF
WARTIME "HELL"
Former detainee speaks
of appalling treatment
of prisoners as they were transferred from one camp to another.
By Velma Saric - International Justice - ICTY
TRI Issue 665, 15 Oct 10
A former prison camp detainee told the trial of
two senior Bosnian Serb police officials this week of the
dire
conditions he
experienced during a prisoner transfer from the
Omarska camp in Prijedor to the Manjaca camp near Banja Luka in
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http://www.usip.org/
resources/fulfilling-the-
promise-peace-human-
rights-peace-and-
reconciliation-in-bosnia
CONGRESSIONAL
TESTIMONY
by Daniel Serwer
September 2010
Introduction
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for this opportunity to offer my personal
views on the peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina, nearly 15
years after the Dayton agreements brought an
end to a brutal war
without fixing the underlying
causes. I would like to
focus my
remarks on just
a few things the United
States Government...
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A NEW KIND OF BALKANS
DRAMA
Daniel Serwer
United States Institute of
Peace, June 3, 2010
Summary
The Balkans face more trouble in Kosovo as well
as Bosnia and
Herzegovina unless the United States and European Union take
dramatic steps to get both back on track towards EU membership. In
Bosnia, the international community needs to reconstitute itself as
well as support an effort to reform the country's constitution. In
Kosovo, Pristina and Belgrade...
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In
tlie Citu of Westminster Magistrates' Court
THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF
SERBIA v. EJUP GANIC
1.In these proceedings the Government of the
Republic of Serbia seeks the extradition of Dr Ejup Ganic in respect
of offences said to have been committed in Bosnia in May 1992. In
the course of the 6 day bearing I have received a
substantial amount
of evidential material
amounting to some 20
lever arch files. I am
greatly indebted to Counsel both
for the Government and...
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VISEGRAD: ON THE TRAIL
OF
VASILJEVIC
Search for released Serb
war criminal reveals
town
still profoundly affected by
wartime horrors.
By Marija Arnautovic -
International Justice -
ICTY
TRI Issue 647,
2 Jun 10
Visegrad was deserted on
a May morning when we
arrived in the picturesque little town in eastern
Bosnia. Its
Ottoman bridge over the Drina river has
been a symbol of the town
for centuries. Since the Bosnian war of 1992-95, however, it has
also
become an emblem of...
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BOSNIA'S GANIC
EXTRADITION BID
UNDER SCRUTINY
British lawyers say
there's a flaw in the
Sarajevo prosecutor's
request for him to be
returned to Bosnia.
By Rachel Irwin in The Hague
(TU No. 639,
19-Mar-10)
Bosnia's attempt to
extradite former Bosnian
presidency member Ejup Ganic from Britain may founder because of a
legal shortcoming, experts warn. Arrested on March 1 at Heathrow
airport at Serbia's request, Ganic was granted bail on March 11 by...
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