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Kokkalis Program
Research Agenda
Networks for Peace in Southeastern Europe
Draft for discussion, 10.20.97
The Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe
in cooperation with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
and the Kennedy School Negotiation Project
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Research Coordinators:
Kalypso Nicolaidis (faculty chair)
Dimitris Keridis (program officer)
Statement of Purpose:
This research program is one component of the "Kokkalis Program" at the Kennedy School and covers the period 1997-2000. The aim of the program is to analyze the overall conditions and concrete options for promoting stability, democracy and prosperity in Southeastern Europe. It will therefore explore some of the core economic, social and political components of building networks for peace in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. The research will encompass three levels of analysis and examine the interaction between these levels:
- Political and economic development within countries,
- Inter-Balkan/transnational cooperation,
- he integration of the region into the wider Euro-Atlantic political, economic and security institutions and polities.
Specific components of the research agenda:
The overall agenda will be explored through specific research components:
- Conflict Prevention and Conflict Resolution: Case studies may include Bosnia, Kosovo and the Aegean.
- A new Marshall Plan for the Balkans: Economic aid, technical assistance, institution building and the role of NGOs and inter-governmental agencies in the region's political and economic development. Potentials for Greek leadership.
- The challenge of double enlargement: Strategic linkage between the enlargement of NATO and the European Union and the need for integrated policies for second and third-wave enlargement candidates.
- Hard and Soft Networks: Building the physical infrastructure (in transportation, energy and telecommunications), the business networks (in trade and investment) and the societal networks (in education, among churches and the media) for the promotion of inter-Balkan cooperation.
Calendar:
The Program will convene a major international conference on "Networks for Peace in Southeastern Europe" with the participation of scholars, policy-makers and business leaders from the region, Europe and the United States including all the international organizations currently involved in the Balkans, in the fall of 1998. Working papers will be presented at the conference, to be published independently or as an edited volume.
Fall 97: Formalize research agenda, contact key participants in the project
and integrate their feedback
Spring 98: Commission papers, possibly hold a preliminary brainstorming
workshop.
Fall 98: Conference
Spring 99: Finalize Publication
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