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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 Trifkovicis 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 Rakasis 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 Vujicis 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 Studieswas 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: [email protected], 510-710-7008
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