ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the EU Police Mission (EUPM) in Bosnia-Herzegovina. It details the historical background to the international presence in Bosnia, showing that EUPM was in some ways constrained and in some ways enabled in its work by being the successor of IPTF’s police reforms. The analysis of the collective legitimacy perception of the Bosnian population provides an important yardstick for the assessment of the police’s legitimacy perceptions in the following two chapters. It reveals the depth of the ethnic division running through Bosnia, which also surfaces in the following case studies.
