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International diplomacy has been one of a number of practices which have performatively constituted 'Bosnia' as a particular place with specific people, so that it could be rendered as a problem requiring a particular solution. Even when, as in the case of the Dayton accords, negotiators claim they have desired the reintegration of Bosnia, their reliance on a powerful set of assumptions about identity, territoriality and politics-a particular political anthropology-has meant the ethnic partition of a complex and heterogeneous society is the common product of the international community's efforts. Paying attention to the role of cartography, this paper explores the apartheid-like logic of international diplomacy's political anthropology, the way this logic overrode non-nationalist options and legitimised exclusivist projects during the war, and considers the conundrum this bequeaths Bosnia in the post-Dayton period as a number of significant local forces seek to overcome division. This article is accompanied by a web-site which presents the relevant maps from the periods of international diplomacy discussed here, along with a further commentary. Referred to in the article as Campbell (1999), this web-site can be accessed at http://www.newcastle.ac.uk/~npol/maps/bosnia.
Author(s): Campbell D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Political Geography
Year: 1999
Volume: 18
Issue: 4
Pages: 395-435
Print publication date: 01/05/1999
ISSN (print): 0962-6298
ISSN (electronic): 1873-5096
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0962-6298(98)00110-3
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-6298(98)00110-3
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