Liberal Governance Builds Liberal Peace: The Defence and Police Sector Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Abstract

This article aspires to overcome the barriers to a dialogue between the
problem-solving and critical approaches to international peacebuilding.
From the perspective of modern constructivism hypotheses are formulated
concerning the influence of international peacebuilding on the
development of sustainable democratic self-governance in the target
countries. The hypotheses are tested on two cases of international
initiatives in the post- Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina – the cases of the
defense and the police sector reforms. The empirical analysis then validates
the hypotheses, and the results are presented in charts. The main idea of
the article is that adherence to the principles of liberal governance in the
course of international peacebuilding is considerably vital for the build-up
of liberal peace in the target country in itself.