ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses whether the post-Dayton implementation process actually signals an unbundling of state sovereignty and marks in some part the creation of dispersed forms of vertical and horizontal sovereignty. A form of dispersed vertical sovereignty can help construct communities responsive to the needs of identities, insofar as it allows all identities to articulate and represent themselves within a dispersed structure. Until such time as more moderate politics prevail the work of institutions operating on the horizontal axis is fundamental. An analysis of the current status of the Inter Entity Boundary Line (IEBL) separating Republika Srpska from the Federation is a clear example displaying the effect of unbundled sovereignty upon borders and territoriality. Even a more explicit manifestation of an emerging new spatial configuration, which marks in many respects a clear deconstruction of the traditional model of nation state, is found in the Brcko arbitration final award.
