Matthew Chakov is a freshman in the School of Public Affairs pursuing a BA in CLEG (Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics, and Government). He is interested in politics and currently interns at a lobbying firm in downtown D.C. He is a Staff Writer at The World Mind in the Government and Public Policy column.
To us Americans, it may seem a fantastic idea to govern a country explicitly based on ethnic distinctions, but the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina may show us precisely why that might be a good idea.