From Crisis to Convergence: A Strategy to Tackle Balkans Instability at its Source
This publication is jointly published by the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins SAIS and Wilson Center's Global Europe Program
There is a clear path for the U.S. and its European partners to reverse—not just contain—the alarming deterioration in the Balkans. U.S.-led 'convergence' over Kosovo will transform the stalled EU Dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina—and the entire region, including Bosnia-Herzegovina. 'Convergence' will alter Serbia's strategic calculus, curtail malign Russian and Chinese influence in the region, and finally close the three-decade Yugoslav crisis.
About the Author
Edward P. Joseph
Senior Fellow, SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Fomer Macedonia Project Director, International Crisis Group
Global Europe Program
The Global Europe Program addresses vital issues affecting the European continent, U.S.-European relations, and Europe’s ties with the rest of the world. We investigate European approaches to critical global issues: digital transformation, climate, migration, global governance. We also examine Europe’s relations with Russia and Eurasia, China and the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. Our program activities cover a wide range of topics, from the role of NATO, the European Union and the OSCE to European energy security, trade disputes, challenges to democracy, and counter-terrorism. The Global Europe Program’s staff, scholars-in-residence, and Global Fellows participate in seminars, policy study groups, and international conferences to provide analytical recommendations to policy makers and the media. Read more
