Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective

When the war in Bosnia ended in December 1995 with the Dayton Agreement, the armed forces in the country were divided along the ethnic lines. However, in 2005 the country’s politicians agreed on defence reforms that led to merging former rival armed forces into a unified army of BiH as a condition...

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Main Author: Bedrudin Brljavac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Institute of Romania 2012-03-01
Series:Romanian Journal of European Affairs
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Online Access:https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2012_vol12_no1_Building-a-Common-State-Army-Forces-in-Post-War.pdf
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description When the war in Bosnia ended in December 1995 with the Dayton Agreement, the armed forces in the country were divided along the ethnic lines. However, in 2005 the country’s politicians agreed on defence reforms that led to merging former rival armed forces into a unified army of BiH as a condition for Bosnia to join NATO. Thus, today unified BiH army is making small but significant contributions towards security maintenance both at national and global level. In order to explain efforts of Bosnian politicians to bring the country into the Euro-Atlantic structures and send their troops into multi-national missions we have used the security community theory coined by Karl Deutsch. Thus, NATO-related reforms have strengthened security and peace-building attempts among the former warring ethnic groups. Also, the country’s participation in multi-national peace missions abroad has been a crucial commitment to the world security and peace. Thus, today as a NATO aspirant Bosnia has practically become a country that exports security.
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spelling doaj-art-89daa6a720364e0bb30e5fa31cc2ecce2025-08-20T03:27:48ZengEuropean Institute of RomaniaRomanian Journal of European Affairs1582-82711841-42732012-03-011212738Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building PerspectiveBedrudin Brljavac0Quality Office in International Burch University, SarajevoWhen the war in Bosnia ended in December 1995 with the Dayton Agreement, the armed forces in the country were divided along the ethnic lines. However, in 2005 the country’s politicians agreed on defence reforms that led to merging former rival armed forces into a unified army of BiH as a condition for Bosnia to join NATO. Thus, today unified BiH army is making small but significant contributions towards security maintenance both at national and global level. In order to explain efforts of Bosnian politicians to bring the country into the Euro-Atlantic structures and send their troops into multi-national missions we have used the security community theory coined by Karl Deutsch. Thus, NATO-related reforms have strengthened security and peace-building attempts among the former warring ethnic groups. Also, the country’s participation in multi-national peace missions abroad has been a crucial commitment to the world security and peace. Thus, today as a NATO aspirant Bosnia has practically become a country that exports security.https://rjea.ier.gov.ro/wp-content/uploads/articole/RJEA_2012_vol12_no1_Building-a-Common-State-Army-Forces-in-Post-War.pdfbosnia and herzegovinabosnian common armynatoeuro-atlantic integrationpeace-buildingsecuritymulti-national peace operations
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Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
Romanian Journal of European Affairs
bosnia and herzegovina
bosnian common army
nato
euro-atlantic integration
peace-building
security
multi-national peace operations
title Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
title_full Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
title_fullStr Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
title_short Building a Common State Army Forces in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina: Assessing its Peace-Building Perspective
title_sort building a common state army forces in post war bosnia herzegovina assessing its peace building perspective
topic bosnia and herzegovina
bosnian common army
nato
euro-atlantic integration
peace-building
security
multi-national peace operations
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