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Becoming 'European' through police reform: a successful strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina?
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Abstract Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina's internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) pla... view more
Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina's internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) plays in preparing Bosnian police agencies for this challenge. Using as guiding tools some of the key elements of the Mission's leitmotif—local ownership, European police standards—the article comes to the conclusion that EUPM has introduced much needed reforms but these have been overshadowed, among other things, by the police restructuring process and its unnecessary politicisation of "European police standards/ practices" to fit a model of statehood not shared by all local stakeholders.... view less
Classification
European Politics
Peace and Conflict Research, International Conflicts, Security Policy
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 231-242
Journal
Crime, Law and Social Change, 51 (2008) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-008-9157-x
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)