Nationalism and Multi-ethnic Governance in Bosnia-Herzegovina Methods of Multi-Ethnic Government: A Study of Consociationalism and Centripetalism

Abstract

Organizing a state's government is a difficult task, let alone for a state split along tense ethnic lines. This essay examines two methods of governing diversity within a state, consociationalism and centripetalism, while focusing on Bosnia-Herzegovina. The essay finds that with the circumstance’s facing the elites in the state, neither method would be able to work properly without the intensive international military and political presence within the ethnically divided state.