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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Huntington, S. P., Political order in changing societies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1968. 2. Harrison, L. E. and Huntington, S. P., eds., 2000. Culture matters: How values shape human progress, New York: Basic Books. 3. Budiardjo, C., 2000. The legacy of the Suharto dictatorship. In: P. Hainsworth and S. McCloskey, eds. The East Timor question: the struggle for independence. London: IB Tauris London, pp. 61–62. 4. William I. Robinson calls this ‘polyarchy.’ See: Robinson, W. I., 1996 Promoting polyarchy: globalization, US intervention, and hegemony. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p.49. Polyarchy is defined as a system where ‘a small group actually rules and mass participation in decision-making confined to leadership choice in elections carefully managed by competing elites’. Democracy is understood institutionally, not substantively as the rule of the demos, and is accordingly limited, for example, so as not to extend to economic relations. 5. Mill, J.S., 1984. A few words on non-intervention. In: J.M. Robson, ed., The collected works of John Stuart Mill, vol. XXI. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 111–124. 6. The Maintenance of Parents Act’ was introduced in 1994. For a consideration, see Chan, W-C, 2004. The duty to support an aged parent in Singapore. Pacific rim law & policy journal, 13 (4), pp. 547–578. 7. For an instance see, Acharya, A., 2003. Democratisation and the prospects for participatory regionalism in southeast Asia. Third world quarterly, 24 (2), pp. 375–390. 8. See for example, Kahler, M., ed., 1997. Liberalization and foreign policy. New York: Columbia University Press. 9. See for example, Robinson, Promoting polyarchy, ch. 3; Hedman, E.-V. 2006. In the name of civil society: from free election movements to people power in the Philippines. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 10. Putnam, R.D., 1998. Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games, International organization, 42 (3), 427–460. 11. Author interviews with Indonesian MPs Djoko Susilo and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana, Jakarta, February 2008. 12. For instance: Rodan, G., Hewison, K. and Robison, R., eds., 2006. The political economy of southeast Asia: markets, power and contestation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 13. See for example, on the Philippines, see Linantud, J.L., 2004. The 2004 Philippine elections: political change in an illiberal democracy. Contemporary Southeast Asia, 27 (1), pp. 80–101. 14. See for example, see Hewison, K., 1999. Localism in Thailand: a study of globalisation and its discontents., CSGR Working Paper 39/99. University of Warwick. 15. Mill, A few words on non-intervention, p.123. 16. Krasner, S.D., 1983 Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variable. In: S.D. Krasner, ed. International regimes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 1–/22. 17. The author would like to thank Steffen Eckhard for his comments and for a helpful discussion on regime theory. 18. BiH was recognized as a ‘potential candidate member’ in November 2000 at the EU Zagreb Summit, together with other four countries of the Western Balkans (namely Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Croatia and the then Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). For further details see http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/potential-candidate-countries/bosnia_and_herzegovina/eu_bosnia_and_herzegovina_relations_en.htm [Accessed 5 February 2009]. 19. Krasner, S.D., 2004. Sharing sovereignty new institutions for collapsed and failing states. International security, 29 (2), 85–120. 20. A recent agreement among key party leaders could pave the way for a long-waited territorial re-organization of the country. Rumours from the field confirm that local elites might have agreed on a division of Bosnia into four territorial units. 21. Interview with Tobias Flessenkemper, EUPM, Sarajevo, 21 November 2007. 22. The district of Brcko, located at the most critical point of the Inter-Entity Boundary Line, has been placed outside the jurisdictions of the two Entities and enjoys a special status and administration. At present, the Bosnian central government and the OHR are discussing the possibility of granting a similar status and independence also to the municipality of Srebrenica, the town of Republika Srpska where thousands of Bosniaks were massacred in July 1995. 23. The main works of these three ‘internationalist’ scholars discussed by Roeder are: Gilpin, R., 1981. War and change in world politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Gourevitch, P., 1978. The second image reversed: the international sources of domestic politics. International organization, 32, 881–991; Spruyt, H., 1996. The sovereign state and its competitors: an analysis of systems change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; Spruyt, H., 2005. Ending empire: contested sovereignty and territorial partition. Ithaca, NJ: Cornell University Press. 24. Eisenberg, C., 1996. Drawing the line: the American decision to divide Germany 1944–1949. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 25. Heartfield, J., 2007. Limits of European economic unification’. Critique, 35 (1), 37–65. 26. Ganser, D., 2005. Nato's secret armies. Oxford: Frank Cass. 27. Urban, J. B., 1986. Moscow and the Italian communist party: from Togliatti to Berlinguer. London: I.B., Tauris, p. 219.