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nema šanse da me obajve (pa još i plate). No, nada umire poslednja.

Monday, October 26th

The Harriman Institute/East Central European Center & the Wilson Center, Washington, DC, present



Brussels and the Western Balkans: Next Steps for the EU Integration Process

Kellogg Conference Center

International Affairs Building

420 West 118th Street (corner of Amsterdam Avenue)



Since the EU committed to enlarge to the Western Balkans at its 2003 Thessaloniki Summit, the countries of the region have made little progress in their efforts to join the European Union. This Harriman Institute/East Central European Center-Wilson Center conference will address the following questions:

1) Can the Western Balkan countries fulfill EU accession requirements as they now stand?

2) If not, does the EU need to come up with a new accession mechanism for the Western Balkan countries (and can it do so)?

3) If it is not realistic for the EU to come up with a new accession mechanism for the Western Balkans, what alternatives are there for accelerating the Western Balkans' accession process?



Participants:



Marie-Janine Calic, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

Milica Delevic, Director, European Union Integration Office, Belgrade

Vladmir Drobnjak, Chief Negotiator for Accession Negotiations with the EU, Zagreb

Venelin Ganev, Miami University of Ohio

Nida Gelazis, Wilson Center, Washington, DC

Tim Judah, Balkans correspondent, The Economist

Erion Veliaj, Mjaft, Tirana

Tuesday, September 15th

12-1:30pm

PLEASE NOTE ROOM: 1510 IAB



"Complicity and Community: Preserving Multiculturalism in World War II Sarajevo"

Emily Greble Balic

City College, New York



How can multicultural societies persist through times of war, extreme nationalism, and ethnic cleansing? This is the central question of this talk, which examines how Sarajevo—a city shared by Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Serbs, and Jews—retained its multicultural character through the most devastating chapter of twentieth-century European history, the Second World War. Taking on conventional wisdom about the pervasiveness of nationalism and political ideologies in wartime Europe, Balic focuses instead on other kinds of identities that shaped local decision-making during the war. In particular, she examines how religious identity and urban solidarity--or a "city consciousness"--influenced genocidal policies in the town."

Emily Greble Balic is Assistant Professor of History at The City College of New York. A specialist on the modern Balkans, particularly the countries of the former Yugoslavia, her research and teaching focuses on questions of nationalism, civil war and genocide, social transformation in twentieth century Europe, and Islam and the West. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the multicultural city of Sarajevo during the Second World War. Professor Balic received her MA and Ph.D. in East European History from Stanford University in 2007. She received a B.A. in history from the College of William and Mary in 1999. Prior to starting at City College, she held fellowships at the Remarque Institute at New York University and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2004-2005, she was a Fulbright-Hayes and IREX fellow in Bosnia and Croatia.

“Update from Pristina: Kosovo after Independence”



Engjellushe Morina

Kosovar Stability Initiative, Pristina



Kosovo declared its independence a year and a half ago and is presently recognized by 62 U.N. member states, yet, the new country remains ‘conditionally supervised.’ In this lecture, Engjellushe Morina of the Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS) will argue that many of Kosovo’s current difficulties stem for its muddled governance by myriad competing authorities – UNMIK, ICO, EULEX, the Government of Kosovo and parallel Serbian institutions. Two simple, yet difficult questions arise: Who is the real boss of independent Kosovo, and when is Kosovo likely to begin to fulfill its inspirations to join the EU? Morina will take a critical look at the international governing structures set up to supervise Kosovo’s independence, such as the International Civilian Office and the EULEX Mission, discuss the democratic deficits of Kosovo’s international governance structure, the capacity of the Kosovo Government to take sole control over most areas of life (i.e. economic development), and argue for the need to take a more proactive stance on these issues, especially since the Kosovo government in particular has been extremely cautious in criticizing any aspects of the post-status settlement, the Ahtisaari Agreement or the EU successor mission for fear of alienating its international partners. Lastly, Morina will discuss the issue of whether the EU is ready to take responsibility for the Kosovo issue, given the contradictory position on Kosovo independence EU member states have. What does the EU perspective for Kosovo mean in practical terms? Will Kosovo residents of all ethnicities be trapped in a visa ghetto? And what are the implications of this situation, not only for Kosovo, but also for the entire Western Balkans and for EU interests in the region?



Engjellushe Morina is the Executive Director of the Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS) in Pristina. Prior to her joining IKS she was responsible for the Higher Education portfolio at the Public Diplomacy Section, U.S. Embassy, Prishtina. During the Kosovo final status negotiating process, Mr. Morina served as expert and consultant in the Cultural Heritage group within the Unity Team. Her input focused in particular on the protection of Cultural and Religious Heritage in Kosovo.

Mr. Morina’s gained her BA (Hons.) from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL), UK. Ms. Morina received a graduate degree in diplomatic studies at the University of Oxford, Somerville College.

Friday, October 2nd,

NOTE TIME: 6:30-8:30pm

1219 IAB
"The Imidgology and Ideology of 'Humanitarian Interventions' in Yugoslavia and Serbia"
Svetozar Stojanovic

Center for National Strategy, Belgrade

“Beyond Dayton in Bosnia: Challenges of International Withdrawal”

Sophia Sebastian

London School of Economics and FRIDE, Madrid

On May 14th a new crisis emerged in Bosnia when SNSD Leader Milorad Dodik managed to pass a resolution in the Republika Srpska National Assembly designed to undermine some of the key accomplishments of the state building process that had been in place since the end of the war in 1995. Although the crisis was eventually averted on June 20, it demonstrated, yet again, the highly volatile nature of Bosnian politics and the inherent challenges faced by an international community that has grown impatient, frustrated, and is oblivious as to how to resolve the Bosnian quagmire. The country continues to show no clear signs of political reconciliation and there is a lack of commitment to the process of EU accession.

Pressure from the international community for the reform of Dayton has increased in the past few years in the belief that a simpler institutional arrangement will give the state the required institutional capacity to comply with the EU accession process. All of the external efforts on constitutional reform, however, have failed thus far; mostly as a result of local ethnic power games. In this presentation Sofia Sebastian will discuss the recent dynamics involved in constitutional reform in Bosnia and explore the degree to which constitutional changes may serve as the means to resolve the political deadlock in this multi-ethnic country.

Sofia Sebastian is a non-resident Associate Fellow at the Madrid-based think tank FRIDE. She has recently received her doctorate from the London School of Economics with a dissertation entitled, State Building in Deeply Divided Societies: Beyond Dayton in Bosnia.

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