Review of “The EU Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina” written by Kari M. Osland

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Legacy of the War
Another good point made by Osland is lack of interconnectedness between people in dealing with challenges which are forming the legacy of the war such as corruption, organized crime and hardliner nationalism (p. 553). So, main challenge for the EU is instability of the state. If we add that the judiciary system is weak, it is clear that this mission could not be successful without the contribution of local people and officials. Osland gives some observations about local people but mostly about leaders. She may have looked at from the point of local people also. The citizens of BiH seem to suffer lethargy and a reluctance to take on the government and elites. After the war, they would have serious problem with “trust” which would make the job harder for the EU despite the strong legitimacy.

General Assessment
Osland has authority over the issue. As it is noted before she was a doctoral candidate when she wrote this article but it can be easily noticed that many authors cited this article. And also she was working in Norwegian Institute of International Affairs that also makes her credible. Author uses vast theoretical and empirical resources including high officials and experts such as Javier Solana, Susan L. Woodward. All these increase the accuracy of the article. I also found her article quite comprehensible that is anyone can understand her thesis since she provides historical and theoretical background and also mentions current organization. I criticized her by not including low politics however her main point is about high politics. Although her decisive thesis makes author more tended to security policies and claiming ESS is the main way for state building I do not found Euro-centric or western-centric, ar...

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...y Assessment of the European Union Police Mission to Date”, Paper presented at the 50th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, New York City 15-18 February, p. 21, http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/aktuelles/ISAPaper2009Maras.pdf
Merlingen, Michael, “Everything Is Dangerous: A Critique of `Normative Power Europe'”, Security Dialogue, Vol. 38, No. 4, December 2007, pp. 435-453, http://sdi.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/38/4/435
Quielle, Gerrard, “The European Security Strategy: A Framework for EU Security Interests?”, International Peacekeeping, Vol.11, No.3, Autumn 2004, pp.1–16
Vainio, Liisa, (2008), “Policing missions: the case of EUPM”, ISIS Europe – European Security Review no.41, November, pp. 1-6, http://isis-europe.eu/sites/default/files/programmes-downloads/2008_artrel_205_esr41-eupm.pdf
Weber, Max, (1922), “Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft”, Tübingen

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