Ivan Vejvoda, Jon Baskin: "Hope and Despair in the Former Yugoslavia"

Hope and Despair in the Former Yugoslavia
For more of East-Central Europe, 1989 meant peaceful, velvet revolutions. Not so in Yugoslavia where it unleashed political conflict that led to violent civil wars. How do we understand the thirty years the troubled region has undergone? What did these thirty years mean for former Yugoslavia? What were the trajectories of change, hope, disappointment and despair the societies of the Western Balkans went through? Europe’s Futures Director and IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Vejvoda reflects on the recent past to assess the stakes of today. In a conversation with New School University’s Jon Baskin, he will offer his analysis of the region’s development.