Carl Bildt

The Armenian model for Belarus

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. 

Hashim Thaci should resign

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

Winning peace

The end of the first world war with its history, remembrance, and challenges | Speech by Carl Bildt

Is peace in Donbas possible?

An ambitious international peacekeeping and transition operation is badly needed in the Donbas