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State-building and organized crime: implementing the international law enforcement agenda in Bosnia

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Schröder, Ursula C. / Friesendorf, Cornelius – 2009

Domestic and transnational criminalized activities are typical side effects of weak statehood and civil war. International actors pursue a variety of counter-crime programmes explicitly designed to strengthen the judicial, penal and law enforcement capacities of states after war. This paper traces the implementation of international counter-crime programmes in post-Dayton Bosnia-Herzegovina and asks what effects they have had so far. Drawing on implementation research in the fields of public policy and foreign policy analysis, the paper discusses the constellation of factors that influence the implementation of the international law enforcement agenda in Bosnia. While we detect an initial gap between international counter-crime strategies and their implementation on the ground, our analysis also shows that international actors have intensified their fight against organized crime in post-conflict societies. In Bosnia-Herzegovina, counter-crime implementation efforts, unsystematic and uncoordinated at first, have improved over time.Journal of International Relations and Development (2009) 12, 137-167.

Title
State-building and organized crime: implementing the international law enforcement agenda in Bosnia
Author
Schröder, Ursula C. / Friesendorf, Cornelius
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal)
Location
Hants (u.a.)
Date
2009
Identifier
ISSN 1408-6980
Appeared in
Journal of International Relations and Development, Volume 12, Number 2, June 2009 , pp. 137-167(31)
Language
eng
Type
Text