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Comments on Gerard Toal's “‘Republika Srpska will have a referendum’: The rhetorical politics of Milorad Dodik”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Danijela Majstorović
Danijela Majstorović*
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University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Writing about the rhetoric of Milorad Dodik, one certainly has to bear in mind his beginnings, especially as a 1998 RS prime minister whom Albright (1998) called a “breath of fresh air” and someone “determined to peacebuilding, reconciliation and connection of democratic alternative” in Bosnia and Herzegovina (henceforth BiH). Dodik's early rhetoric that brought him to power abounded in phrases such as “economic progress,” “debt return,” and “opening to the world,” while some media reports referred to him as the “America-supported man who occasionally attended Ambassador Miller's secret dinners” (Dani, 22 September 2000) (Majstorovic et al. 2010). In 1998, Dodik attended donors’ conferences and was given significant support to pursue the reforms he started, including normalization of relations with the BiH Federation and Croatia. In 1998, his results secured him between $400 million and $600 million in aid money (Beta, 13 May 1998).

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Republika SrpskaMilorad Dodikpolitical rhetoric
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Nationalities Papers , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 209 - 213
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Copyright © 2013 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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