Agenda 2015

Speakers: Filip Ejdus‚ Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade

Speakers: Asle Toje‚ Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo

Rethinking the European Union’s Enlargement and Neighbourhod Policy: Lessons from California Roozbeh B. Baker, University of Surrey, UK   Abstract: The past several years have seen the clear limitations of... Read More

The Garbage Can Model of European Neighborhood Policy: The Case of Ukraine Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia   Abstract: Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia and Pernille Rieke, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs... Read More

The EU Foreign Policy as Mediation: The Case of Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Krenar Gashi, Ghent University, Belgium   Abstract: Krenar Gashi, Ghent University, Belgium and Vjosa Musliu, Ghent University, Belgium     Solving Problems in... Read More

In partnership with: the Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net) Sixteen years after the end of the Kosovo conflict and two years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, the normalization... Read More

In partnership with M:tel a.d. Banja Luka A survey undertaken in 2012 showed how senior managers saw cybersecurity, violence in the workplace, an organization’s resilience and the way it selects... Read More

The European Union is a transformational polity challenging diplomacy as an institutionalized order. This book “The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia” reviews the conceptual origins of the EU’s diplomatic... Read More

In partnership with: the European Fund for the Balkans (www.balkanfund.org) In the final declaration of the Western Balkans Summit, six Western Balkan countries that are not yet EU members –... Read More

In recent years income inequality has emerged as a political issue par excellence. Piketty’s history of wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States Capital in the Twenty-First... Read More

In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF) With the devastating results of the recent wars in the Middle East, and with the apparent... Read More

With 2015 slowly coming to a close, it is the perfect time to look back on the Millenium Declaration (2000), and its implications for the creation of a truly inclusive... Read More

Speakers: Sonja Licht‚ President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence

Forty years after the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act, the OSCE seems to have reemerged from the margins of international relations. This organization has survived difficult times since the... Read More

With the downfall of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the militant approach of Islamists in Iraq, Syria and Libya, many analysts say the future of political Islam in the Arab... Read More

Could we have anticipated the Ukrainian conflict? A country nestled between two political blocks – one established and enlarged, the other still establishing (and enlarging?) – with deep internal divisions... Read More

The word “reluctant” has been used extensively in describing Germany’s role in Europe. The question this adjective begs is how did it come about that Germany became the single leader... Read More

In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States/Balkan Trust for Democracy               As the world becomes an ever smaller and faster... Read More

Presentation of the results of region-wide research In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces DCAF  The number of private security companies (PSCs) is growing... Read More

(Upon Separate Invitation) Thorvald Stoltenberg represents one of the key international figures whose personal history is inextricably linked to the history of Yugoslavia and Serbia. Few know that first contact... Read More

Upon separate invitation  

The international order defined by the West is no longer a premise simply taken for granted by the “rest” of the world. Not surprisingly, Russia has its own ideas of... Read More

Investment in the energy sector(s) in the countries of South East Europe (SEE) is increasing. Largely outdated and inefficient energy systems are in dire need of repair and modernization. Markets... Read More

More than 350,000 people entered the EU since the beginning of the year. Some call them migrants, some call them refugees, but the essence is that these people have left... Read More

According to the Copenhagen criteria, countries that wish to join the European Union have to meet the highest standards of democratic governance and human rights. The doors of the EU... Read More

Crystall Ballroom Speakers: H.E. Aleksandar Vučić‚ Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia

Speakers: Sonja Licht‚ President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Maja Bobić‚ Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia Sonja Stojanović Gajić‚ Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy