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This paper assesses the international efforts to establish democratic civil-military relations in Bosnia and Herzegovina within the framework of an international protectorate. The authors provide a theoretical examination of the case by applying the thesis of Andrew Cottey, Timothy Edmunds and Anthony Forster on first and second generation civil-military relations to the example of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The paper states that in the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the agenda as outlined by Cottey, Edmunds and Forster does not occur in a loosely overlapping fashion with the initiation of the first generation agenda providing the basis upon which a second-generation agenda can be implemented, but rather the reverse occurs, with the second generation capacity-building agenda allowing for the construction of state level institutions in the defense and security sphere.