{"id":60941,"date":"2025-03-17T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=60941"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T15:18:59","slug":"60941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2025\/03\/17\/60941\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Vesko Garcevi\u0107 comments on the War in Ukraine in the Boston Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_58596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58596\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2024\/02\/Vesko-Garcevic.1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2024\/02\/Vesko-Garcevic.1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2024\/02\/Vesko-Garcevic.1.jpeg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amb. Gar\u010devi\u0107<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassador Vesko Garcevi\u0107, Professor at Boston University\u2019s Pardee School of Global Studies, was quoted in a Boston Globe Newsletter article marking three years since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You can read the full article <\/span><span>titled <em>It\u2019s a different era\u2019 for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/02\/24\/newsletters\/starting-point-ukraine-russia-trump-update\/\">here<\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gar\u010devi\u0107&#8217;s\u00a0point that\u00a0&#8220;the context in which this war is taking place\u201d\u00a0has changed with President Trump in the White House and the conclusion that\u00a0\u00a0\u201cwe are in a different era\u201d\u00a0was used for the article headline.<\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Professor Gar\u010devi\u0107 argues that\u00a0\u201cin an exhaustive war for both sides, but more exhaustive for Ukraine,\u00a0&#8216;by holding peace talks that exclude Ukraine, Trump has validated\u00a0Russia\u2019s\u00a0claim that the war was a defensive act against an aggressive West, not an unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor. As the negotiations progress&#8221;,\u00a0he added,\u00a0\u201cthe US is likely to put pressure not on an aggressor, but on a victim.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vesko-garcevic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ambassador Vesko Gar\u010devi\u0107 <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years during his diplomatic career. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was Montenegro\u2019s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as Montenegro\u2019s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School. Learn more about Ambassador Gar\u010devi\u0107 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/vesko-garcevic\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on his faculty profile<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Vesko Garcevi\u0107, Professor at Boston University\u2019s Pardee School of Global Studies, was quoted in a Boston Globe Newsletter article marking three years since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You can read the full article titled It\u2019s a different era\u2019 for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine here.\u00a0 Gar\u010devi\u0107&#8217;s\u00a0point that\u00a0&#8220;the context in which this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1168],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60941"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60941\/revisions\/60945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}