Bosnia to war, to Dayton, and to its slow peace
It will be difficult to sustain progress for Bosnia or the region without a credible and clear EU accession process
ECFR co-chair
Former Prime Minister and Former Foreign Minister of Sweden
Carl Bildt served as both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. Under his leadership, the government initiated major liberal economic reforms and negotiated Sweden’s accession to the EU. A renowned international diplomat, he also served as EU Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, UN Special Envoy to the Balkans, and Co-Chair of the Dayton Peace Conference. Bildt was Chair of the Global Commission on Internet Governance, and is a member of different boards, among them a Trustee of the RAND Corporation in the US.
It will be difficult to sustain progress for Bosnia or the region without a credible and clear EU accession process
While many Western observers have seized on Ukraine's 2004-5 and 2014 revolutions to understand the mass protests in Belarus, a much better analogy is Armenia's democratic transition in 2018.
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Carl Bildt, Co-chair at ECFR and former prime minister of Sweden, launches the new series ECFR Quarantimes: Thinking big in times of covid-19, setting out Europe's role in the new international system of a post-corona world
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The end of the first world war with its history, remembrance, and challenges | Speech by Carl Bildt
The war in Donbas is Europe's worst active conflict - a referendum would not help
It will be difficult to sustain progress for Bosnia or the region without a credible and clear EU accession process
Introduction The last five years have not been kind to the European Union’s foreign policy. The EU has been less relevant, less active, and less…
Two decades after the end of the Bosnian war Carl Bildt considers the successes and failures of Dayton
While many Western observers have seized on Ukraine's 2004-5 and 2014 revolutions to understand the mass protests in Belarus, a much better analogy is Armenia's democratic transition in 2018.
The relationship between the EU and India has vast potential in areas ranging from multilateral institutions to global health
The indictment for war crimes against Kosovo President Hassim Thaci helpfully upends the poorly conceived US initiative to reconcile Serbia and Kosovo. But it fatally delegitimates Kosovo’s current leadership.
An unpredictable US, rising China and revanchist Russia pose serious strategic challenges
There’s plenty Europe should do to push back against Russia’s latest attack on Ukraine
The end of the first world war with its history, remembrance, and challenges | Speech by Carl Bildt
The war in Donbas is Europe's worst active conflict - a referendum would not help
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An ambitious international peacekeeping and transition operation is badly needed in the Donbas
Carl Bildt, Co-chair at ECFR and former prime minister of Sweden, launches the new series ECFR Quarantimes: Thinking big in times of covid-19, setting out Europe's role in the new international system of a post-corona world