Persistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

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dc.contributor.authorSuerdem, Ahmet
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-01T14:47:54Z
dc.date.available2022-11-01T14:47:54Z
dc.date.issued2022-03
dc.description.abstractAbstract: Informal networks persist after conflict and undermine liberal peace-building. While these adverse effects are well-known, how informal networks survive beyond conflict is less understood. Scholars explain informal networks’ persistence by their stability and cohesion, attributed to solidarity of ascriptive bonds such as ethnic ties. In these accounts, networks are approached as actors and not as relational structures. We address this gap in the peace-building scholarship and conduct a longitudinal study of relations within an informal network in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Drawing on the political approach to networks, and applying Social Network Analysis, we investigate actors’ relational power and reveal how network actors use their connections to create strategic coalitions and opportunistic collaborations enabling them to exploit different stages of the peace-building process. We demonstrate that unequal distribution of relational power creates vested interests in sustaining the network and in seeking access to it, and how dynamic reconstitution of relational power within the network ensures continuity of network action from war to peace. From a policy perspective, this structural account of informal network persistence suggests a need for a better understanding of the dynamics among co-ethnics within an informal network that allows network members to subvert efforts to counter informality and undermines post-conflict institution-building. © 2021, Crown.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41268-021-00220-4en_US
dc.identifier.issn1408-6980
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85107441625en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/4634
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00220-4
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000658141900001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.issue1en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors3en_US
dc.pages182-209en_US
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillanen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of International Relations and Developmenten_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectInformal networksen_US
dc.subjectInformalityen_US
dc.subjectPeace-buildingen_US
dc.subjectRelational analysisen_US
dc.titlePersistence of informal networks and liberal peace-building: evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovinaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume25en_US

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