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Conference: "Unifinished Business in the Balkans" Capitol Hill Club, Washington D.C.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 11:30 - 17:00

The Lord Byron Foundation for Balkan Studies

and The American Council for Kosovo 

CONFERENCE: “UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN THE BALKANS” - RHETORIC, STRATEGY, IMPLICATIONS

Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12 noon – 5 PM

Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street SE, Washington D.C. 20003 (opposite Capitol South Metro Station)

A reception to mark the Conference will be hosted by the LBF at Capitol Hill Club, Tuesday, May 26, 6–8 p.m.

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 (“Dayton II”) 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 experts, several of whom have just come back from the region.

PROGRAM

11:30   Registration 

12:00  Welcoming remarks: Ambassador James Bissett, LBF Chairman (r.) 

12:15   Keynote address: Bosnia, America’s Unlearnt Lesson: Doug Bandow

12:45   Lunch

1:30     PANEL I: DEFINING THE PROBLEM, chaired by James George Jatras

Imperial Democracy in the Balkans: Gregory Davis

The European Union’s Imperfect Role: Ronald Hatchett

Do We Need “Dayton II”? Steven Meyer

The Balkans and Global Jihad: William Lind

3:00     Coffee break 

3:15     PANEL II: PREVENTING ANOTHER DISASTER, chaired by Ronald Hatchett

Washington's Balkan Gambit: Dangers, Strengths, Weaknesses: James George Jatras

A Canadian Solution to Bosnia’s Impasse? James Bissett 

Republika Srpska: Essential Part of Any Solution Srdja Trifkovic

4:30     OPEN FORUM

5:00     Conference Closing

P A N E L I S T S

Ambassador James Bissett is Chairman of The Lord Byron Foundation, former head of Canada’s Immigration Service, and former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia

Dr. Doug Bandow is world affairs commentator, author (most recently) of Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire and former special assistant to President Reagan

Dr. Gregory M. Davis is the author of Religion of Peace? (2006) and co-director/producer of the documentary Islam: What the West Needs to Know

Dr. Ronald L. Hatchett, Col. USAF (Ret.), a senior DoD official under Reagan, is Director of the Center for Global Studies and professor of international relations at Schreiner University in Kerville, Texas

James George Jatras is Director of The American Council for Kosovo and Deputy Director, American Institute in Ukraine. He is former Foreign Service officer and former senior analyst with the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee

William S. Lind is the leading authority on Fourth Generation Warfare, a prolific author, and Director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free Congress Foundation

Dr. Steven Meyer is Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University

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 

(NB: The opinions expressed by Professor Meyer are his own, and do not reflect the views of the U.S. government or the Department of Defense.)


 For all information please contact Terri Alder (202) 626-6625 talder@ssd.com