Hodnocení činnosti Vysokého představitele pro Bosnu a Hercegovinu v její poválečné rekonstrukci mezi roky 1995-2002 na pozadí "Capability-Expectations Gap
Abstrakt
Bosnia has been an international protectorate for fifteen years since the end of civil war, which was ravaging the country between 1992 and 1995. Te protectorate was to origi-nally give way to the Bosnian growing sovereignty after one year since the end of civil war.
Instead, the International Community began to increase its activity in the country via an expansion of the High Representative's capabilities (financial and military resources of the protectorate, High Representative's authority to take actions against Bosnia elected representatives, etc.). High Representative was an ad hoc institution created to admin-ister the international protectorate in Bosnia.
At the end of 1997, High Representative received the so-called Bonn Powers, which gave him authority to directly impose legisla-tion and to dismiss Bosnian elected representatives. Any such usage of Bonn powers was justified as an effort to speed up Bosnia's stabilization and facilitate thus international de- parture from the country.
However, Bosnia is a destabilized country and an international protectorate even in 2011. Te usage of Bonn Powers proved to be wrong, since it could establish a Bosnian state minimally suitable to the international expectations, but it has at the same time failed to establish a Bosnian state suitable to the domestic expectations of the three Bosnian nations - Bosniaks, Croats, and Serbs.
Tus, the failure of international protectorate in Bosnia brings about a question, whether there exists any possibility to stabilize the ethnically divided countries, which recently experienced a civil war, solely according to the international expectations. Tis Bachelor thesis tries to answer such question by using "Capability-Expectations Gap" and the analysis of historical trends in South Slav region as two equal and interconnected methods.