What is it about?
This article argues that by using the European Union Delegation (EUD) in Sarajevo as an organisational proxy, the EU creates tools allowing it to participate in the enhancement of external administrative co-governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Why is it important?
Underpinned by organisation theory, this observation illustrates the EUDs’ nuanced actorness around the world and that their practices, rather than only expanding the understanding of the institution of diplomacy, go beyond that and tap into the practices associated with the institution of sovereignty. In this case, besides diplomatic practices, the EUD Sarajevo is also engaged in external administrative co-governance. Such administrative co-governance is characterised by the retainment of asymmetrical powers in oversight over the institution-building and governing practices in executing core powers of sovereign states by external actors.
Perspectives
From a theoretical perspective, this means that the hybridity of the EUD Sarajevo facilitates the EU’s involvement in the organisational field of sovereignty and that the EU as non-state actor not only has the potential of transforming the institution of diplomacy but also of broadening the practices associated with and the actors who constitute the institution of sovereignty, which represent the foundational institutions of state order.
Matej Navrátil
Slovak Academy of Sciences
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This page is a summary of: The EU Delegation Sarajevo as an Organisational Proxy of the EU’s Administrative Co-governance, The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, August 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1871191x-bja10031.
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