UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
and
The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies
invite you to a lecture and discussion by
Serge Trifkovic
KOSOVO: A PREVENTABLE DISASTER
Monday, February 4, at 5:30 p.m.
3105 Etcheverry Hall
University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu/map
Introductory remarks by Dr. Jasmina Vujic
Professor and Chair, Department of Nuclear Engineering
A major security issue facing the Balkans, Russia, the West, and the rest, is
the future of the Serbian province of Kosovo. The United States and key members
of the European Union are facing an important choice: to persevere in their
stated intention to recognize Kosovos forthcoming unilateral declaration of
independence, or to uphold the rule of law, the UN Charter, and the key
Westphalian principles, by considering even at this late stage some
alternative solution to independence.
A flawed, misguided and needlessly hasty decision on Kosovo may undermine the
stability of the Balkans for decades to come. As the Serbian presidential
election has shown, it could easily turn the key country in the Balkans away
from the West. It would negatively impact America's ability to fight Islamic
terrorism. It is bound to create unnecessary yet serious problems in our
relations with Russia, and it is almost certain to produce cracks in the facade
of EU unity.
As Iraq has shown, predictable mistakes turn into costly disasters. It is
therefore necessary to prevent them before they do so. The speaker will provide
a diagnosis of the problem of Kosovo, analyze different aspects of the problem,
and recommend workable and legal solutions.
Dr. Serge (Srdja) Trifkovic is the Executive Director of The Lord Byron
Foundation, Foreign Affairs Editor of the monthly Chronicles: A Magazine of
American Culture www.chroniclesmagazine.org and the author most recently of
Defeating Jihad: How the War on Terrorism May yet Be Won, In Spite of Ourselves.
Over the past four weeks Dr. Trifkovic has visited Belgrade, Rome, Bratislava
and London, where he has met some of the key political figures, officials and
analysts who are actively involved with the issue of Kosovo.
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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
southeastern Europe in all its aspects. The Foundations research, publications
and conferences are designed to correct the current trend of public commentary
and analysis, which tends not to understand events but to construct a
propagandistic version of Balkan rivalries.
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