CSCE Belgrade Meeting

Conference Programme

Opening of the Conference
(Moderation: Vladimir Bilandzic, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade)
Ambassador Feodor Starcevic, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
Ambassador Hans Ola Urstad, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade, remarks
Prof. Dr. Dittmar Dahlmann, Zikic Foundation, Bonn, remarks
Ambassador Dr. Markku Reimaa, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki, remarks
Zivorad Kovacevic, President of the European Movement in Serbia, Belgrade, Mayor of Belgrade (ret.), remarks

Keynote speech
(Moderation: Milan Kosanovic, Zikic Foundation, Bonn/Belgrade)
Klaus Hildebrand (University of Bonn): "Detente"

CSCE Development Process: Overview
(Chair: Vladimir Bilandzic, OSCE Mission to Serbia, Belgrade)
Branislav Milinkovic (Special Envoy of the MFA of Serbia to NATO, Brussels): "From CSCE to OSCE"
Markku Reimaa (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki): "CSCE Evolution; Increased Stability or Change?"

CSCE Development Process: Superpowers
(Chair: Dittmar Dahlmann, University of Bonn)
Thomas S. Blanton (National Security Archive, Washington, D.C.): "U.S. Preparations for the Belgrade CSCE Meeting"
Andrey Edemskiy (Moscow Institute of Slavic Studies): "Soviet Foreign Policy on the Road to Helsinki: Strategies and Tactics (1966-1976)"
Harald Biermann (Foundation Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn): "U.S. Perceptions of the CSCE-Process "

CSCE Development Process: Neutral and Non-Aligned States
(Chair: Ljubinka Trgovcevic, University of Belgrade)
Ljubodrag Dimic (University of Belgrade): "Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Foreign Policy, and the Shaping of the Concept of European Security and Cooperation 1968-1975"
Rinaa Elina Kullaa (University of Maryland, Baltimore): "Neutralism and CSCE: the Finish and the Yugoslav Models for Neutralism – the Birth and the Development of CSCE"

Human Rights and Minorities : The Eastern Approach
(Chair: Milan Ristovic, University of Belgrade)
Wolfgang Eichwede (University of Bremen): "Soviet Dissidents and Human Rights"
Joachim Scholtyseck (University of Bonn): "GDR Dissidents and Human Rights Issues"

Human Rights and Minorities: The Western Approach
(Chair: Christian Ostermann, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.)
Bent Boel (Aalborg University): "Western Grass Root Contacts with Eastern European Dissidents and Helsinki: The French Case"
Sarah B. Snyder (Yale University, New Haven): "Follow-up at Belgrade: How Human Rights Activists Shaped the Helsinki Process"

Global Politics: Superpowers
(Chair: Gottfried Niedhart, University of Mannheim)
Breck Walker (Sewanee – The University of the South): "Neither Shy nor Demagogic' – The Carter Administration Goes to Belgrade"
Svetlana Savranskaya (National Security Archive, Washington, D.C.): "USSR and CSCE: From Inviolable Borders to Inalienable Rights"

Global Politics: Western Europe
(Chair: Bernd Schaefer, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.)
Angela Romano (University of Florence): "The EC and the Belgrade CSCE"
Robert Gerald Hughes (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): "Britain and the CSCE "
Oliver Bange (University of Mannheim): "The FRG and the GDR and the Belgrade CSCE Conference"

Global Politics: Eastern Europe
(Chair: Milan Kosanovic, University of Bonn)
Wanda Jarzabek (Polish Academy of Siences, Warsaw): "Disappointments? Lost Illusions? Poland and the CSCE Follow-up Meeting in Belgrade 1977-1978"
Jordan Baev (Cold War Research Group – Bulgaria, Sofia): "Bulgaria and the Warsaw Pact Consultations on the CSCE Process: From Helsinki to Belgrade"
Mircea Munteanu (Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.): "Romania's Reactions to the CSCE Process. From Helsinki to Belgrade"

Global Politics: Neutral and Non-Aligned States
(Chair: Ranka Gasic, Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade)
Thomas Fischer (Austrian Institute for International Affairs, Vienna): "Getting to Know Their Limits: The N+N and the Follow-Up Meeting in Belgrade 1976-1978"
Jovan Cavoski (Institute for Modern History of Serbia, Belgrade): "On the Road to Belgrade: Yugoslavia's Contribution to the Defining of the Concept of European Security and Cooperation 1975-1977"