My essay on the former prime minister and current president of Republika Srpska has just been published in the Discussion section of the journal Nationalities Papers, a Taylor and Francis journal (41, 1: 160-204). I’m grateful to the departing editor Florian Bieber for accommodating such a long study on the topic of Republika Srpska and its future status within Bosnia-Herzegovina. The essay is followed by two responses, both of which I’m keen to read as I still haven’t seen a paperback copy of the issue and our university, beset by retracting library budgets, only subscribes to the journal with an 18 month delay.