While there are many resources in Bosnia and Herzegovina that could provide a strong framework for a better future for the people in the country, the political economy has made it easy for a few actors to exploit these opportunities, extracting the resources and removing the wealth. This paper is useful for understanding the issue and context in BiH, but also similar trends in the Western Balkan region.
DPC’s Valery Perry and Kurt Bassuener participated in the FAMA Knowledge Transfer Module, The Good, the[…]
The new US National Security Strategy closes the book on values-based comprehensive security and promises disruption to democratic governance everywhere. It’s time for Europe to consolidate a democratic “Europe Plus” by developing strategies to counter the threat that its erstwhile ally has become.
Senior Associate Kurt Bassuener imagines the speech he would like to hear for Dayton’s 30th on November 21st from High Representative Schmidt and Head of EU Delegation Soreca – for Balkan Insight.
DPC’s Kurt Bassuener and Valery Perry worked with the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes to prepare[…]
As Trump seeks to play the role of action figure statesman, his Sharpie politics evoke a time in which outside “great powers” unroll maps and use pens to draw borders and create realities that would have significant human consequence.
DPC assesses the implications of Canada’s election results for the democratic world – what we call in working shorthand “Europe+” – in the age of Trump.
New DPC Policy Note
In her long-form thought piece, DPC senior associate Valery Perry offers thoughts about good governance, rights-based democracy, state capture & kleptocracy as the US anticipates the second Trump administration.
DPC is seeking innovative applications of models developed in partnership with Eurothink to understand the links between corruption, radicalization and democratic decline.