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In this, the second in a
about political reform in post-war Bosnia, the author advances the argument that comprehensive constitutional reform is required to give Bosnia the slightest possibility of future survival. Although attempts at constitutional reform were made in the past, they were not made with a sufficient eye to detail; nor were they were made in the right direction.
By Matthew Parish
Bosnia and Herzegovina has one of the world’s most notoriously dysfunctional constitutions. Although at 5,000 words the document is also one of the world’s shortest constitutions, brevity is not always a benefit. The constitution was prepared by US lawyers overseeing the peace negotiations ending the Bosnian war in Dayton, Ohio in November 1995. It was written in English, not an official language of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it came into force not by virtue of a resolution of a parliamentary assembly but as an annex to an international treaty, the Dayton Peace Accords. ....

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