Balkans: the transition from a reduced US commitment

Introduction

Nicole Gnesotto (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris)

Session I : Where we stand today and Implications

(What a reduced US commitment implies – calendar- challenges)

Misha Glenny, (Writer, Brighton)

Daniel Serwer (United States Institute of Peace, Washington, D.C.)

Dimitrios Triantaphyllou (EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris)

Session II : Military and Civil Management Aspects

(EUPM – EU-NATO deal – EU Mission in FYROM – Preparations to replace SFOR in Bosnia)

Matthew Reece (Secretariat-General of the EU Council, Brussels)

Mihai Carp (NATO HQ, Brussels)

Session III: The Political Dimension

(Holding together the Ohrid Accord – Belgrade Agreement – Dayton – Kosovo – ICTY)

Stefan Lehne (Secretariat-General of the EU Council, Brussels)

Raffi Gregorian (Department of State, Washington, D.C.)

Session IV: Summing up

(The way to proceed – Objectives out by 2010?)

Sotiris Axel Walldén (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens)

Fernando Gentilini (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rome)

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