Europe are focus of conference
Scholars, political dignitaries and policy experts will discuss issues that are of strategic importance for the development of southeastern Europe -- and the entire nexus of European and North Atlantic relations -- in a conference on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 22 and 23.
Titled "Euroatlantic Integrations and Southeastern Europe," the event will take place in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. It is open to the local academic community. The conference is being organized by the European Studies Council, a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center. Sponsors include The MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the Hellenic Studies Program, and the Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
The conference will consist of three two-hour-long sessions as roundtable discussions among the participants. The first session, "EU Enlargement and Southeastern Europe," will begin on Friday at 9:30 a.m. It will focus on the current European Union (EU) enlargement timetable and the role it has played, politically and socially, both in the aspirant countries and the EU itself.
The second session, which begins at 2 p.m. on Friday, is titled "NATO Enlargement and Southeastern Europe." It will examine the security and political aspects of NATO enlargement in the area.
The third session, "Regional Integration in Southeastern Europe: The Unfinished Business," will begin on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. It will explore overarching issues and will feature concluding remarks.
Ivo Banac, the Bradford Durfee Professor of History, is the host and organizer of the conference. Participants include Agim Çeku, prime minister of Kosovo administration, Prishtinë; Ahmet Evin, chair of the EUI-Turkey Task Force at Sabanci University; Dimitris Kerides, the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at Tufts University's Fletcher School; Nadezhda Mikhailova, former foreign minister of Bulgaria; Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, president of the Romanian Academic Society and a visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy; Robert Pfaltzgraff of the Fletcher School; Edi Rama, chair of the Albanian Socialist Party and mayor of Tirana, Albania; Alexandros Rondos, former ambassador at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ivo Sanader, prime minister of Croatia; Goran Svilanovi, former federal minister of foreign affairs in Serbia and Montenegro; Adnan Terzi of the Council of Ministers, Bosnia & Herzegovinia; and Miodrag Vlahovi, foreign minister of Montenegro.
Yale participants include Laura Engelstein, the Henry S. McNeil professor of Political Science and chair of the European Studies Council; David Cameron, professor of political science and director of the European Studies Program; Jolyon Howorth, visiting professor of political science; Francesco Meggiolaro, visiting fellow in the EU Studies Program; and Stathis Kalyvas, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and director of the Hellenic Studies Program.
Other European diplomats have also been invited to attend.
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