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 11th 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 centered around the role and the importance of diplomacy in the time of (de)integration.

Goldstein delivered a lecture entitled “Moments of (De) Integration: Diplomacy and Innovation.” Amb. Garcevic gave a lecture entitled “Responsibility to Protect: To Protect Sovereignty Or To Protect Lives?” that covered the controversy of humanitarian interventions in international relations.

Amb. Garcevic joined Edward P. Joseph, Adjunct Professor and Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and Roman Jakic, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia and former MP in the European Parliament for a panel entitled “Challenges on Liberal Order and Security in Europe.”

Guest lecturers included Péter Szijjártó, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs; Montenegrin ministers and state officials; representatives of the External Action Service of the EU; 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;  ESSEC Business School from France; the Center for Security Studies of Switzerland; and the Directors of the Diplomatic Academies from the Netherlands, Turkey,  Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia.

More than 50 young diplomats from 31 countries attended the 11th Montenegrin Summer School.  For the first time, diplomats from Africa and Iran were among the attendees. Since it was launched 11 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.

Goldstein’s 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 Middle Eastern Studies, Review of International Relations, East European Quarterly, Historical Research, Historical Journal, Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, and the Hague Journal of Diplomacy.