Regionalisation and Regional Self-Government in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Complex Institutions in a Highly Complex and Divided State

The chapter deals with the issue of regionalism and the institutional structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a very complex state. The chapter primarily deals with the institutional development of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s, especially the institutions of territorial self-government formed by and after the signing of the so-called Dayton Peace Agreement as well as their development in the coming period. The dominant ethno-national context dictates the development of B&H society for the last three decades. Analysis of the constitutional and legal framework of local and regional self-government is being carried and the chapter sheds light on the complex institutional structure of B&H, which is characterized by a very pronounced asymmetry between two entities as its constituent parts. The chapter contains discussion regarding potential territorial reorganization and regionalization of B&H having in mind political, geographical and administrative circumstances of the current B&H.