ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the political effects of European discourses in contemporary Bosnia. It analyzes how international agents in Bosnia have relied on Balkanist binaries to shape international interventions both during the conflict and in the post-conflict period. The chapter explains the international invocations of Europe with the narratives of local Bosnian political party activists and civil society organizations. It describes how the material and cartographic violence has been inserted into discourses of Europeanization by international agencies and nationalist political parties in the post-conflict period. This chapter argues that the ideas of Europe circulating in contemporary Bosnia do not challenge the primacy of the state, despite the prevalence of references to forms of solidarity beyond the nation state. Rather, the virtue of European association has been deployed to legitimize the strengthening of competing visions of statehood in Bosnia. It explores how the processes of Europeanization' have seen the adoption and redeployment of Balkanist imaginaries by nationalist political parties.
