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Boutros Boutros-Ghali and the UN Vanquished

Branislav Gosovic — 2016-10-03T20:35:45Z

This essay, written as a personal homage to Boutros Boutros-Ghali, is also a comment on the United Nations, predicaments and challenges confronting those occupying the office of UN Secretary-General, and the overarching North-South entanglement in the world body. This has been included as a chapter for a book in the memory of Boutros Boutros-Ghali being jointly edited by Mrs Boutros Ghali and Roberto Savio (founder of the Inter-Press Service who now edits the e-Bulletin, Other News; he has (…)

- 2016

Reflections on the 50th Anniversary of NAM and 20 Years since Yugoslavia's Demise

Branislav Gosovic — 2012-07-10T12:20:56Z

“EX-YU” SUCCESSOR STATES AND THIRD WORLD MOVEMENT
The following article is based on a short statement made by the author at the Seventh European Centre for Peace and Development (ECPD) Conference on Reconciliation, Tolerance and Human Security in the Balkans—“New Balkans and the European Union Enlargement”—held in Milocer, Montenegro, October 21-22, 2011. In the text, “Yugoslavia” has been used to refer to post-World War II Yugoslavia, called the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (…)

- 2012

Rio+20 and its Historical Context — A Challenge to the System

Branislav Gosovic — 2012-06-20T17:03:59Z

The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 21-22, 2012. It is being called Rio+20 as the Conference is being held 20 years after the UN-sponsored “Earth Summit” that took place in the same city in 1992. For two days multilateral diplomacy would be at work while discussing environmental issues, water, sanitation, corporate responsibility. The following article by a distinguished expert is being published here as a (…)

- 2012

Yugo-Nostalgie–II

Branislav Gosovic — 2008-10-25T01:09:15Z

The following article, being carried in two parts, is based on the author's remarks at the conference “Human Security and Reconciliation” organised by the European Centre for Peace and Development (ECPD), Belgrade, October 27-28, 2006. The article was first published in Inter-Ethnic Reconciliation, Religious Tolerance and Human Security in the Balkans, Proceedings of the Second ECPD International Conference, (eds.) T. Togo, J. Levett, N.P. Ostojic, Belgrade, 2007. It is being published here (…)

- October 18, 2008

Yugo-Nostalgie

Branislav Gosovic — 2008-10-17T16:13:24Z

I. Missing Dimensions
The past, present and future challenges and problems that concern the “West Balkans”—now used to denote the former republics of the SFR of Yugoslavia that have emerged as sovereign states from this country's break-up—cannot be understood fully unless analysed within the broader context of world politics and with appropriate recognition of Yugoslavia's post-World War II role and place in the global arena.
When this complex and controversial problématique is (…)

- October 11, 2008