May 13, 2009 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Milica Uvalic, Professor of Economics, University of Perugia and current WWICS Public Policy Scholar
Webcast
May 06, 2009 // 9:00am — 5:00pm
EU accession holds the best hope for overcoming stagnation on democracy-building, market reform and state consolidation in the Western Balkans. However, the traditional enlargement process is not well suited to the region and requires a coordinated strategy between the EU, the United States and other international actors if it is to succeed in the near future. This meeting will aim to discuss the EU enlargement process, the role of the US and other international actors to support this process, the unique obstacles to the success of the process in the Western Balkans and innovations that might be introduced for a new, coordinated policy toward the region.
March 30, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
The 20 years of Serbia's transition to a market economy was discussed, explaining why a country that had among the best starting conditions in 1989 to implement the transition ended up substantially lagging behind.