Becoming ‘European’ through police reform: a successful strategy in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) pla...

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Main Author: Collantes-Celador, Gemma (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2009
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 231-242
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Keywords:
Local Ownership
Organise Crime
Police Agency
Police Matter
Police Officer
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Summary:Police reform plays a key role in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s internationally-supervised statebuilding process. It is one of the four key conditions to move the country closer to its European future. Against this background the article analyses the role that the European Union Police Mission (EUPM) plays in preparing Bosnian police agencies for this challenge. Using as guiding tools some of the key elements of the Mission’s leitmotif - local ownership, European police standards - the article comes to the conclusion that EUPM has introduced much needed reforms but these have been overshadowed, among other things, by the police restructuring process and its unnecessary politicisation of "European police standards/practices" to fit a model of statehood not shared by all local stakeholders.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 241-242
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-008-9157-x