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| | East European Constitutional Review |
 | | The High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter, HR), the chief executive officer for the international civilian presence in the country, has found it necessary to bypass the elected parliamentary assembly in matters supposedly within its competence and to remove elected officials.(1) He now is proposing to place controls upon the press. |
 | | Bosnia is thus revealed as a symbolic construction, a cause of and for the international community, but not a government of or by its own peoples. |
 | | Thus, from the start, Bosnia was a democracy that lacked the consent of many of the governed, a putatively joint state composed officially of two (in reality, three) constituent units, each armed against the other, and united by a supposed central government that has almost no authority to act within the country. |
| www.law.nyu.edu /eecr/vol7num2/special/bosnia.html (2586 words) |
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