ABSTRACT
In late 1995, with the signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, the international community embarked on one of the most ambitious state-building projects it has ever undertaken.1 Rebuilding Bosnia in the aftermath of a long and bloody war over ethnicity and territory would involve not only reconstituting a deeply divided political community and building up state institutions almost from scratch, but also simultaneously putting the country on the path to free-market capitalism and liberal democracy, two conditions which Bosnia had not previously known. Not only was Humpty Dumpty to be put back together again, he was to be given a new identity and a completely different personality.
