Thirty years after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, Bosnia and Herzegovina faces its most profound political crisis since the end of hostilities. Institutional stagnation, heightened nationalist politics and renewed pressure for greater territorial decentralization point to a system that is approaching its structural limits. The Dayton Agreement was reached in Ohio on November 21, 1995. Although it brought an end to three-and-a-half years of fighting, it