In this blog, Valery Perry dispels some myths to reduce the damage being done by intentional or simply ill-informed efforts to legitimize the political and instrumentalized ethno-national discrimination and segregation that continue to plague schools throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.
On December 19, 2020, the day before the Mostar local elections, DPC Senior Associate Bodo Weber gave the following interview to the Croatian news portal Index.hr, focusing on Mostar elections, Croat politics in BiH, as well as Croatia’s policy towards BiH.
Guest Author Tomasz Kamusella writes on Bulgaria’s veto of North Macedonia’s initiation of membership talks with the EU – and Bulgaria under Borisov’s apparent national ambitions.
DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry reflects on how she hopes a Biden administration democratic clean-up in the US will prompt a rethinking of democratization policy abroad.
While awaiting the US elections, DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry considers the intentional structural constraints that will impede reform in any administration, considering parallels and lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Chile.
DPC Senior Associate Valery Perry will participate in a panel entitled, “”Whose security? Divisions in Europe[…]
In an article for an Sudosteuropa Mitteilungen special issue looking at China in the Western Balkans,[…]
Valery Perry reviews Peter Emerson’s book, Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism: Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy, and asks why we are so slow to improve the way we make decisions.
In this August 12 article for Just Security, DPC co-founder Kurt Bassuener describes Lebanon’s entrenched political[…]