International Conference on European-Atlantic Integrations and Southeastern Europe

Yale University will host an international conference titled “Euroatlantic Integrations and Southeastern Europe” on September 22 and 23.

The event will bring together academics, statesmen and policy experts to discuss issues of strategic importance not only for the development of Southeastern Europe but for the whole nexus of European and North Atlantic relations. Conference sessions will take place at Yale University’s Hall of Graduate Studies, Room 211, 320 York St. The event is open to the academic community and members of the media.

Ivo Banac, the Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University, is conference organizer, with Dimitris Kerides, the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.

Participants include the Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader; former Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Vlado Bu?kovski; and Prime Minister of Kosovo Agim Çeku. Also participating are Ahmet Evin, Sabanci University, Turkey; Nadezhda Mikhailova, MP, former foreign minister of Bulgaria; Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, president of the Romanian Academic Society and visiting fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.; Robert Pfaltzgraff, Tufts University; Edi Rama, chair of the Albanian Socialist Party and mayor of Tirana, Albania; Alexandros Rondos, former ambassador for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Greece; Evripidis Stylianidis, deputy minister of foreign affairs, Greece; Goran Svilanovi?, former federal minister of foreign affairs, Serbia and Montenegro; Adnan Terzi?, chair of the Council of Ministers, Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Miodrag Vlahovi?, foreign minister of Montenegro.

Participants from Yale include Laura Engelstein, the Henry S. McNeil Professor of History and Chair of the European Studies Council; David Cameron, professor of political science and director of the European Union (EU) Studies Program; Jolyon Howorth, visiting professor of political science; Francesco Meggiolaro, visiting fellow, EU Studies Program; and Stathis Kalyvas, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science and director of the Hellenic Studies Program.

The conference will consist of three two-hour sessions conducted as round-table discussions among the participants. The schedule is as follows:

Friday, September 22
9:30–11:30 a.m.
Session I: EU Enlargement and Southeastern Europe
The current EU enlargement timetable and the role it has played, politically and socially, both in the aspirant countries and the EU itself
Commentator: David Cameron, Department of Political Science, Yale University

2–4 p.m.
Session II: NATO Enlargement and Southeastern Europe
The security and political aspects of NATO enlargement in the area
Commentator: Dimitris Keridis, the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic
and Southeastern European Studies, Fletcher School, Tufts University

Saturday, September 23
9:30–11:30 a.m.
Session III: Regional Integration in Southeastern Europe: The Unfinished Business
Overarching issues and conclusions
Commentator: Ivo Banac, Department of History, Yale University

The European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is hosting the conference, with support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Fund, the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale, and the Constantine Karamanlis Chair in Hellenic and Southeastern European Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University.