Brussels decides: Bosnia and Herzegovina between the Belgian model of European integration and the paradigm of permanent managed stability on the EU periphery

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s future hinges on whether it will move towards becoming a self-sustaining, functional state or persist over the long term in a zone of internationally managed stability, with sanctions mechanisms applied periodically as a tool for regulating political conduct. In this regard, the OHR appears neither as a definitive solution nor as the source of the problem, but as a symptom of an unfinished international-domestic political arrangement with no clearly defined endgame.