Civil society development programmes are perhaps the most tangible aspect of transnational assistance to post-socialist Europe, yet the experience of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) suggests that the impact, rationale and function of such assistance is problematical. Despite the specific political context of BiH, there is continuity with post-socialist Europe in terms of the logic governing NGO development assistance. What has become a core component of international intervention in war-torn regions evolved in post-socialist Europe during the 1990s under the rubric of democratic consolidation and civil society development.
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Adam Fagan (2006) studied this question.