Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 04/2009

Democracy in Slow Motion

Bryan N. Groves

February 2009

U.S. Military Academy, Department of Social Science

Abstract

Bosnia-Herzegovina's democratization is in slow motion. On the outside it appears that the framework for democracy is in place. Bosnia-Herzegovina--from here forward Bosnia, lacks the inner workings that distinguish a home from a house. Positive steps have been taken. The international community has undertaken efforts to promote democracy from the top-down and from the bottom-up.