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  • April 23, 2026
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  • Home Slider, KURT BASSUENER, Publications, VALERY PERRY

The Vares  Mining Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Case Study of Corrosive Capital in an Already Corroded Political Economy

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.

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  • December 29, 2025
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  • Activities, Home Slider, KURT BASSUENER, VALERY PERRY

Reflection on the Dayton Peace Accords

DPC’s Valery Perry and Kurt Bassuener participated in the FAMA Knowledge Transfer Module, The Good, the[…]

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  • December 12, 2025
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  • Blog, Home Slider, TOBY VOGEL, VALERY PERRY

Europe Must Build Alliance to Counter Hostile US

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.

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  • November 17, 2025
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  • Home Slider, In the Media, KURT BASSUENER

Beyond Dayton: Imagining a Better Deal for Bosnia

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.

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  • October 16, 2025
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  • Activities, Home Slider, KURT BASSUENER, VALERY PERRY

An Opportunity to take Preventive Steps, and Catalyze a Forward Looking Rethink

DPC’s Kurt Bassuener and Valery Perry worked with the Standing Group on Atrocity Crimes to prepare[…]

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  • August 15, 2025
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  • Blog, Home Slider, VALERY PERRY

“Sharpie Geopolitics” in a Time of Complexity

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.

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  • April 29, 2025
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  • Blog, DPC, Home Slider

Canadians Lead the Way

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.

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  • January 5, 2025
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Reflections on American Democratic Threats and Opportunities: A pre-Inauguration Baseline

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.

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  • November 22, 2024
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  • Blog, DPC, Home Slider

Call for Papers: Freaking Out…. Positively – Resisting Corruption, State Capture and Radicalization in a time of Democratic Decline

DPC is seeking innovative applications of models developed in partnership with Eurothink to understand the links between corruption, radicalization and democratic decline.

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