Garcevic, Goldstein Speak at School for Young Diplomats
Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, and Ambassador Vesko Garcevic, Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Pardee School, participated at the 12th Summer School for Young Diplomats, Gavro Vuković, in Montenegro, co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro and UN Development Program Montenegro.
Lectures and discussions at this year’s Diplomatic School were focused on issues including the future of Europe, human rights, women, peace and beyond information – cyber and hybrid threats.
Goldstein took part in a panel entitled “The Future of Europe” along with Charles Tannock, a British politician from the Conservative Party and former Member of the European Parliament (2014-2019); Aivo Orav, Ambassador of the European Commission in Montenegro; and Aleksandar Drljević, Montenegro’s Chief Negotiator with the EU.
Amb. Garcevic joined Ambassador Tomasz Chlon, Head of Engagements Sections, NATO Public Diplomacy Division; and Vladimir Radunovic, Director of E-Diplomacy and Cyber Security Programs at Diplo Foundation in Switzerland for a panel entitled “Beyond Information.”
Guest lecturers included representatives of the diplomatic core in Montenegro; faculty from the School of Advanced International Studies at John Hopkins University; the Clingendael Institute from the Hague and POINT Networks.
More than 50 young diplomats from 30 countries and all the continents attended the 12th Montenegrin Summer School. Since it was launched 12 years ago, the diplomatic school has generated hundreds of alumni who have gone on to become young diplomats and lecturers from 45 countries.
During his diplomatic career, Amb. Vesko Garcevic dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He had been a Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as a Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School.
Erik Goldstein is the author of numerous works on the peace settlement, including two books, Winning the Peace: British Diplomatic Strategy, Peace Planning, and the Paris Peace Conference, 1916-1920 and The First World Wars Peace Settlements: International Relations, 1918-25.His research interests include diplomacy, formulation of national diplomatic strategies, the origins and resolution of armed conflict, and negotiation. He has published in numerous journals, including Review of International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, East European Quarterly, Historical Research, Historical Journal, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.