Chapter 1. Dediscoursification; Or, the Dayton Peace Implementation as a Continuation of the State of War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. Document/Law Reading as Peace Unmaking
5. Chapter 1. Dediscoursification; Or, the Dayton Peace Implementation as a Continuation of the State of War 13
6. Chapter 2. UN GA S/1995/1021: A ‘Backward-Looking’ Treaty? 43
7. Chapter 3. Politische Justiz, Fictive Histories, and Irrationalizing Interpretation at the Bosnian Constitutional Court (U 5/98-III) 71
8. Chapter 4. The Issue of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Election Law: The Curious Case of Željko Komšić, Our ‘Vidkun Quisling’ 121
9. Interlude
10. Chapter 5. Recognizing Bosnia’s Constituent Ethnic Identities 147
11. Part II. Discursive Mechanisms of Political Power
12. Chapter 6. The High Representative – An Engine of Progress? 167
13. Chapter 7. ‘Junkyard Dogs,’ ‘Viennese Stable Tenders’ and the ‘Savior of Bosnian Muslims’: American Peace/War-Making Politics in Bosnia, to Dayton and Beyond 195
14. Chapter 8. Misrepresentation of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the US Congress 235
15. Conclusion 251
16. Bibliography 275
17. Index 287