"This article was written to inform the author's presentation to the SEER Journalonline workshop on the Dayton Agreement held on 2 July 2021. Focusing on theissues of de-consolidation and de-democratisation which are inhibiting Bosnia andHerzegovina (among other western Balkan states) from becoming a credible EUaccession candidate, the article locates the question of ‘othering' within the needto rethink international relations given the global issues which are shaping today's world. Drawing on recently published work in the areas of philosophy and international relations, the author identifies three approaches in the failures of cotransformation and transition, concluding that new democratic vistas may be openedfor BiH up by the pursuit of interregional programmes as well as, in response tothe climate emergency and its impact on flooding and other natural disasters,within a revitalised bioregional paradigm. None of the maps which arise out of therisks of natural disasters bear any resemblance to the ‘logic' of the map drawn atDayton and, in peacetime, may represent a viable way forward although time isrequired"

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