Bosnia Remade is an authoritative account of ethnic cleansing and its partial undoing from the onset of the 1990's Bosnian wars up through the present. Gerard Toal and Carl Dahlman combine a bird's eye view of the entire ward from onset to aftermath with a microlevel account of three towns that underwent ethnic cleansing and-later-the return of refugees. There have been two major attempts to remake the entire geography of Bosnia since 1991. In the First instance, ascendant ethnonationalist forces tried to eradicate the mixed ethnic geographies of Bosnia's towns, villages, and communities. These forces devastated tens of thousands of homes and lives, but they failed to destroy Bosnia-Herzegovina as a polity. In the second attempt, which followed the war, the international community, in league with Bosnian officials, endeavored to reverse the demographic and other consequences of this ethnic cleansing. While progress has been uneven, this latter effort has transformed the ethnic demography of Bosnia and moved the nation beyond its recent segregationist past. --Book Jacket.

Includes maps of: Contemporary Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Showing Primary Research Locations; Distribution of Muslims and Serbs According to 1991 Census; Distribution of Croats and Yugoslavs According to 1991 Census; Distribution of Others According to 1991 Census; Ethnic Structure of Settlements in Zvornik According to 1991 Census; Ethnic Structure of Settlements in Jajce According to 1991 Census; Ethnic Structure of Settlements in Doboj According to 1991 Census; Croatian Communities of Posavina and Herceg-Bosna, November 1991; Serbian Autonomous Oblasts, November 1991; Areas Captured by the JNA, SVK, and VRS during 1991 and 1992; Major Offensives and Changes in Areas Controlled by the VRS, HV/HVO, and ARBiH, 1995; Distribution of War-related Deaths According to Prewar Residence; Levels of Moderate to Total Damage of Residential Structures; Ethnic Territories Assigned by Butileiro Plan (Lisbon Agreement), March 1992 - Vance-Owen Plan with Later Revisions, January-February 1993 - Contact Group Plan, July 1994 - Dayton Accords Plan, November 1995; Postwar Features and Return Activity in Jajce; Displaced Persons by Location of Postwar Residence, 1997; Postwar Features and Return Activity in Zvornik; Prewar Residence and Location in 2000 of Displaced Persons According to UNHCR Reregistration Exercise; Postwar Features and Return Activity in Doboj; Total and Bosniak Minority Return Rates Calculated by Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees; Serb and Croat Minority Return Rates Calculated by Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees; Aggregate Minority Returns by Opstina, 1996-2009; Nationalist Party Returns in Local (Opstina) Assembly Elections, 2008.

Ethnic cleansing and return as geopolitics -- Yugoslavia's violent dissolution -- A distinctive geopolitical space -- Polarization and poison -- Ethnic cleansing -- Persistence ambivalence -- Early battles over returns -- Building capacity -- Rule of law -- Localized geopolitical struggles -- Did ethnic cleaning succeed? -- List of interviews.