Articles from the Bled Strategic Times
2024
For Morocco, Peace in the Middle East is not a Chimera
Mr. Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates
5 paths along the way
Strengthening Democracy in the Digital Age
Amy Larsen, Director of Global Field Engagement & Strategic Projects, Democracy Forward, Microsoft
Democratic Defense and Resilience in the Face of AI-Enabled Threats
Living Library
Sonja Schirmbeck and Tijana Defar, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
The Power of Technology: Shaping Tomorrow’s Tourism Amidst a Rapidly Changing Environment
Natalia Bayona, Executive Director, UN Tourism
In an Era Defined by Rapid Technological Advancements and an Increasingly Interconnected World, Ization (UN Tourism) Emphasizes the Transformative Power of Innovation in Shaping the Future of Global Tourism.
Devil’s Advocate
Hamlet Simonyan, Young BSF Participant and PhD Candidate in Philosophy, and Mariana Almeida, Young BSF Participant and Lawyer specialized in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development
Is Political Correctness Essential in Healthy Media Narratives and Political Discourse?
The Fading Pax Americana
Philippe Etienne, Former Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the President of France. Former Ambassador of France to the United States
How the International World Order Became the House of Cards
Parallel Realities in Increasingly Divided World
Tanja Fajon, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia
The World is People, not Statistics
EU Enlargement at a Crossroads
Kristijan Fidanovski, PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford. Economist at the Vienna Institute for Economic Studies
Bumps on the Road to EU Membership in the Western Balkans
Climate Crisis on our Plates
Martin Frick, Director, World Food Program Global Office Germany
The Crumbling Foundations of Global Food Systems
Sharing is not Always Caring
Jernej Grahor, Project Manager at the Centre for European Perspective together with the European Digital Diplomacy Exchange Team
Digital Democracy as a Cultivating Space for Transparent and Active Participation
EUROPE 2040
For the Conclave Board, Co-Founder of Conclave Peter Grk, Secretary General of Bled Strategic Forum, and Guillaume Klossa, President of EuropaNova and Chairman of the Board of Conclave
The Way to a Global, Sustainable and Responsible Power
Respecting and disrupting heritage
Dagmar Hovestadt, Banu Pekol, Global Diplomacy Lab
A soft diplomacy approach
Five Minutes to Midnight – Can the West Rise to the Challenge?
Garry Kasparov, Russian Chess Grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, political activist and writer
We are at War. A Global War for Democracy.
A New Era of Opportunity
Boštjan Košak, President of the Management Board, Telekom Slovenije
The Development of Artificial Intelligence in Telecommunications
India’s Incredible Internationalism in the Emerging International Order
Satu Limaye, Vice President, East-West Center Senior Advisor, Center for Naval Analyses
India Rising
The Summit on Peace in Ukraine
Julia Martinet, Editor-in-Chief, Bled Strategic Times
Paving a Hard-Fought Path to Freedom
On the Road to Armageddon and still Pretending it is just a Normal Ride!
Nataša Pirc Musar, President of the Republic of Slovenia
Is This the World we Want? We can and Must do Better!
BSF 2024 Distinguished Partner Award
Alexei Navalny
“It is Better to Die Standing up (for your Beliefs) than Live on your Knees”
A roadmap to Peace, Freedom and Prosperity in the Indo-Pacific Amid the Strategic Fluidity and Uncertainty
Kak Soo Shin, Deputy Chairman, NEAR Foundation, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
Natural Resources – the New Kid on the Security and Conflict Block
Ambika Vishwanath, Founder Director, Kubernein Initiative
Bridging the Nature-Security Divide
China as a Global Player in the International Arena
Henry Huiyao Wang PhD, Founder, Center for China and Globalization (CCG), Former Counselor, China State Council
A Growing Role on the International Stage
The Changing Multilateral World Order and the Summit of the Future
Robert Golob, Prime Minister, Republic of Slovenia
from the perspective of a small state and an active non-permanent member of the UNSC in the light of a rapidly changing global geopolitical environment
2023
From dark to light, and back?
Matjaž Gruden, Director of the Directorate of Democratic Participation, Directorate of General Democracy and Human Dignity at the Council of Europe
A few thoughts on culture and democracy
Putting People at the Heart of the Reconstruction of Ukraine
Michael O’Flaherty, Director EU Fundamental Rights Agency
Striving towards a human-rights-based recovery and reconstruction
Crisis, rupture and future of the international order
Nathalie Tocci, Director of the Istituto affari internazionali
The elusive quest for effective global governance