The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
invites you to a forum
“UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN THE BALKANS”:
RHETORIC, STRATEGY, IMPLICATIONS
Saturday, June 6, 2009, 11 am to 3 pm
Seaborg Room, The Faculty Club, University of California at Berkeley
A major security issue facing Europe is the stated intention of the Obama
Administration to play a more active role in the former Yugoslavia.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is committed to wrapping up what she
calls “the unfinished business in the Balkans.” Almost daily calls are
coming from various think-tanks and Congressional committees in Washington
for de facto liquidation of the Republika Srpska and for an even greater
pressure on Serbia to recognize Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of
independence. To discuss the motives, implications, likely course, and
possible results of such U.S. policy, we have assembled a panel of foreign
policy and regional experts.
This event is dedicated to the memory of Raymond K. Kent (1929-2008)
Professor Emeritus of History at University of California at Berkeley.
PROGRAM
11:00 AM Registration, followed by Welcoming and Introductory Remarks
(Jasmina Vujic)
11:30 AM – 01:00 PM PANEL I: PREVENTING ANOTHER DISASTER
Dr. Ronald Hatchett: Time to Leave the Balkans Well Alone
Dr. Vojin Joksimovich: The Balkans, the War on Terrorism, and the American
Interest
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic: Washington’s New Balkan Gambit: Dangers, Strengths,
Weaknesses
01:00 PM – 01:30 PM Lunch (provided)
01:30 PM – 03:00 PM PANEL II: WARS AND AFTERMATH
Prof. George Vid Tomasevich: The Unresolved Problem of
Kosovo
Prof. Jasmina Vujic: Environmental Consequences of NATO
bombing of Serbia, 1999-2009
Dr. Jasenka Rakas: A Tribute to Prof. Raymond K. Kent
Dr. Ronald Lester Hatchett, Col. USAF (Ret.), is a founding member of The
Lord Byron Foundation. He was a senior Pentagon official and arms negotiator
in Vienna under President Reagan. He is Director of the Center for Global
Studies and professor of international relations at Schreiner University,
Kerrville, TX
Dr. Srdja Trifkovic is Executive Director of The Lord Byron Foundation, the
author (most recently) of Defeating Jihad, and former foreign-affairs editor
of Chronicles.
Dr. Vojin Joksimovich, an expert in nuclear safety and regulations, is the
author of several books, including The Revenge of the Prophet: How Clinton
and His Predecessors Empowered Radical Islam.
Prof. George Vid Tomasevich, whose academic career spans over 40 years, is
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Buffalo State University College. His
latest book The Millenniad – Humanity’s Road to Maturity was published in
2006.
Dr. Jasenka Rakas is Deputy Director of UC Berkeley NEXTOR and founding
chair of the Advanced Aviation Educational Program, Airport Design Studio
and the National Airspace System Infrastructure Management conference.
Prof. Jasmina Vujic is currently the Chair of Nuclear Engineering Department
at University of California at Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Berkeley
Nuclear Research Center.
The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies was founded by the late Sir
Alfred Sherman in 1994 as a non-partisan research institute devoted to
studying the Balkan Peninsula in all its aspects. The Foundation’s research,
publications and conferences are designed to correct the current trend of
public commentary which tends not to understand events but to construct a
propagandistic version of Balkan rivalries. The work of the Foundation is
based on the acceptance that the cause of peace, stability and tolerance in
a troubled region can never be advanced by misrepresentation and by
mendacity that characterizes current U.S. policy in the region.
For more information contact: <mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected], 510-710-7008
