background
difficulties
- Multi-faceted question
- Changing nature of legal theory
- Bias
- Yugoslavia began to disintegrate in 1990
- Bosnia declared independence in August 1992
- Three ethnic groups fought war until 1995
- Dayton Peace Agreement signed
A Final Thought
Only a peace between equals can last.
Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.
-Woodrow Wilson
statehood
why
- remedial theory of secession
- changes to legal theories of statehood
self determination
- theory enshrined in UN Charter
- followed up in multiple treaties
- requires a "people"
The Case of the Bosnian Serbs