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Euro-Atlantic Integrations of BiH: Shifting Gears and Reinterpreting Motives in Foreign Affairs

The European Union’s (EU) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) conditionality principle functions as take-it-or-leave-it tool focused on instigating reforms in candidate and third countries. No state wanting accession and stronger relations with the EU and NATO can exert its interest unilaterally. That is especially true for weak states, whose foreign policy agency is already small and symbolic. This chapter shows that Bosnia and Herzegovina managed to exert agency in the process of Euro- Atlantic integration. This is analyzed by using three frameworks—regional integrational trends, instrumentalist cost-benefit calculations and decisions, and exchanges of different groups involved. The objective of this chapter is to show the existence of two types of agency— cooperative and obstructive—which political actors in weak states use in order to offset the disadvantage in international affairs.

BiH, EU, NATO, agency, conditionality

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