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While both countries experienced a negative trend in sentiments towards the liberal peacebuilding project in BiH over time, there are substantial differences in their approaches. Russia places a far greater emphasis on rejection of liberal components of the process (integration into Euro-Atlantic institutions, attempts to preserve the unity of BiH by empowering central institutions to perform their function, and attempts to sanction genocide denial). Meanwhile, China primarily raised concerns around procedural matters but did not object to the liberal components. The findings show that Russia and China\u2019s actions complicate liberal peacebuilding efforts but also highlight the need for adaptable strategies that consider the diverse motivations and actions of emerging powers in different peacebuilding sites. They also underscore the need to move beyond the West vs. non-West dichotomy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13533312.2025.2492705\">This article was published in International Peacekeeping.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper examines the roles of Russia and China in a long-standing peace process in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the broader implications of this for liberal peacebuilding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":25408,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":""},"categories":[1836,235],"tags":[658],"authors":[1963,1791],"class_list":["post-25405","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peace-processes-themes","category-publication","tag-publication","countries-bosnia-and-herzegovina","countries-china","countries-russia","authors-houghton","authors-peter","themes-peace-processes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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