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Adnan Efendić and Azra Hadžiahmetović, offers a novel and data-driven insight into the macroeconomic performance of Bosnia, highlighting the role of international financial institutions and the impact of politics and patronage. Unfortunately, their chapter only goes as far as 2013. Other chapters also show the added value of practitioners’ knowledge on sectoral issues and vindicate the editors’ choice of contributors, while Soeren Keil’s own chapter on consociational models in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia adds an interesting regional dimension. A critical observation that could be made is that the latter piece could have worked better as an introduction to the book, and that the chapters could have been better organised thematically. Overall, the book is useful reading both for practitioners interested in the Bosnian case and for scholars and students willing to take a closer look at a prime example (a ‘failed success’, p. 213) of post-war international intervention, 20 years after the end of the conflict.