Machine generated contents note: Chapters -- 1. An Important and Complex Place: Bosnia after Dayton 1 -- The importance of Bosnia 2 -- The complexity of Bosnia 10 -- Epilogue and prologue: a Bosnian Story 38 -- 2. A State by International Design? Liberal Internationalism and the Balkans 41 -- A question of legitimacy 42 -- Foundations of the Dayton peace 52 -- Structure of the Dayton state 60 -- Conclusion: dilemmas of liberal internationalism 89 -- 3. Mostar, 1994-2001: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention in a Bosnian Town 95 -- The city that was 99 -- War and partition 100 -- A tenuous bridge: international intervention in partitioned Mostar, 1994-2001 106 -- Politics: the persistence of polarization 116 -- Other dimensions of partition: economy, education, culture, symbols 131 -- Conclusion: lessons of Mostar 142 -- 4. Bosnia and the Partition Debate - an Intervention 149 -- Untangling the debate 161 -- Beyond the partition debate 199 -- 5. Democracy amid Division: the Institutional Architecture of the Dayton State 204 -- Bosnia's party system 206 -- Electoral integration 215 -- Federalism,federation and the Bosnian state 241 -- Consociational present, consociational future? 246 -- 6. Post-Yugoslav Futures: Lessons from (and for) International Intervention 253