Implementing the Dayton Agreements, 1995–98: Agenda-Setting, Decision-Making and Implementation

Abstract

This chapter provides an assessment of the situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina with reference to the implementation of the Dayton Agreements between 1995 and 1998. The chapter aims to test the various theories of agenda-setting, decision-making, and implementation from a pillarization perspective that were set out in the introductory chapter. The chapter also specifically focuses on process, relationships between joint actions as an unusual policy-making method, actor behaviour, and policy outcomes. It will do this by considering key European Union Joint actions vis-à-vis the implementation of the Dayton Agreements of October and November 1995, which were formally signed in Paris on 14 December 1995.

The following chapter heavily relies on Western European Union, ‘European Security in Stages: Report on the Former Yugoslavia and the Implementation of the Dayton Agreements’, Brussels, WEU, 1998c, for factual interpretations of the Dayton Agreements’ implementation. Factual information relating to the implementation of the Dayton Agreements — and their historical and political context — is liberally drawn from the report.