Kenneth A. Loparo 
Post-War Statebuilding and Constitutional Reform 
Beyond Dayton in Bosnia

Sebastián explores the experience of statebuilding and constitution making after violent conflict, using the failed reform of Dayton in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a case study to reflect upon the fundamental questions of post-war statebuilding, reform and the role of local and external actors.

Table of Content

Foreword; Brendan O’Leary Introduction 1. Post-war Statebuilding in Divided Societies: a Conceptual Framework 2. Dayton 3. Beyond Dayton I: Inter-Ethnic Divisions 4. Beyond Dayton II: External Agency 5. Beyond Dayton III: Intra-ethnic Divisions and Collapse 6. Elusive Reform and the New International Engagement 7. Conclusions

About the author

Sofía Sebastián Aparicio is currently a Fritz Thyssen TAPIR Fellow at SIPRI, North America. She has held different positions at various universities and worked as a Political Adviser for the Spanish Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2010. She has contributed to a number of books on EU democracy promotion and conflict management, and has published numerous articles on Bosnia and Herzegovina.