Sorry, I couldn't copy and paste the text but here is a quotation and the link.

"No serious political force in Zagreb or Belgrade supports the annexation of majority Croat or Serb regions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Even more importantly, for all the power struggles between the political representatives of the Bosniaks (Muslims), Serbs and Croats, they speak the same language and share a great deal of cultural commonality."

http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/publicatio ... ected.html

Whenever I read these types of studies, I'm simply puzzled by the detachment between these writers/analysts and the reality on the ground. For all their education in conflict resolution, international relations/political theory and training in EU schools of governance and administration, they continue to refuse to accept the fact that if the democratic will of the majority of the citizens of BiH were to be respected, the country would end its own existence.

All the papers published, all the studies done, all the calls for 'integration' and all the attempts to foster a European civic consciousness have failed for two decades and will continue to fail simply because the vast majority of Croatians and Serbians in BiH do not identify with that state and are either autonomists or outright secessionists.

This is the natural result of all the forced attempts we've seen since Dayton. Illiberal methods to enforce prevailing liberal mores have not broken the will of Croatians and Serbs in BiH but have rather shown the inherent contradictions of not just multiethnic polities, but of the liberal post-nationalist civic state.