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Trials at The Hague
“It’s up to you, all of you, be brave, and push on. The world needs you.”—Slavenka Drakulić on Bette Dangerous
Those were the parting words from our Speakeasy guest today, Slavenka Drakulić, a Croatian reporter who wrote a book about her experience covering the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia at The Hague. What an incredible opportunity Bette members had today to meet her, and listen to her share her findings on the often ordinary people who can become killers. I will work on a print report from her talk later this week.
Bette’s Tuesday Series with Vesna Pusić — 2.17 & 2.24, 11 am Pacific
In addition, on Tuesday, we begin a two-part series with Vesna Pusić, a Croatian sociologist and politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs. Pusić said of her book, Democracies and Dictatorships, which also covered the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague: “I wrote about it thinking it was the past, but it turned out to be the future.”
“The topic of ICTY and ICC (International Criminal Court) is as relevant today as it was then,” she said, “only on a much larger scale. The fact that the people who were absolute masters of (a small) universe and of life and death for more than 100,000 people during the four wars of former Yugoslavia, ended up in the dock of ICTY and ICC and either died in prison or are serving long prison sentences, is such an important message. In addition, the whole topic of political exploration of patriotism and the politics of collective emotions, and how is it that in the process these guys all got rich?! It’s all there, only in small, ‘laboratory’ conditions.”
The series begins at 11 am Pacific, Tuesday, February 17 and continues on February 24. Pre-registration links for both events can be found below the paywall of this post.
Here is a recent op-ed by Pusić on why an Eastern European woman needs to lead the UN.
More on her work and career here:
Prof.dr. Vesna Pusić
President of the Assembly and founding member - Foreign Policy Forum, Croatia (2021)
Official Candidate of the Republic of Croatia for the position of the UN Secretary-General (2016)
Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, First Deputy Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Croatia (2011 – 2016)
Member of the Croatian Parliament elected in six terms (2000; 2003; 2007; 2011; 2015; 2016)
Chairwoman of the National Committee for Monitoring the EU Accession Negotiation (2007 – 2011)
Founding member and leader for 11 years of Croatia’s People’s Party – Liberal Democrats
Vice-President of the Party of European Liberals (ALDE Party) in three terms (2007 – 2013)
Member of the Board, Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna
Associate member of InterAction Council
Member, Center for Democracy and Law “Miko Tripalo”, a Croatian think tank focusing on SE Europe
Professor of Sociology and Political Theory, University of Zagreb
Founding member of the first feminist group in former Yugoslavia (1979)
Taught at a number of American and European universities
The author of five books and numerous scientific and professional articles
Honors and Awards
Awarded Chevalier dans l’Ordre national de la Légion d’honneur, by the President of the French Republic, for outstanding achievement in promoting European goals, both in personal and professional capacity (2016)
Awarded “Dr. Elemér Hantos Prize”, by the Central Europe Foundation, Zurich, for outstanding achievements in promoting Economic Cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe (2013)
Ramon Trias Fargas Memorial Award, by Funadacio Libetat i Democracia, Barcelona, for exceptional contributions in promoting democracy and liberal values (2024)
I hope she shares a story of a two and half hour meeting she had with Hillary Clinton at a small cafe in Zagreb, when they were both foreign ministers.
And save the following dates for our AI Series:
On Sunday, February 22, geopolitical analyst Monique Camarra joins us to show how Russia is flooding the news-sphere with fakes, no longer to simply fool and confuse people but to train AI with false information.
And as part of our AI Series, Emmy-award winning game developer Jim Stewartson, my podcast co-host, will be offering Bette members who support me at the Founding level a multi-part series on all things AI, what’s real, what’s hype, and what you need to know. This series begins on Tuesday, March 3 and continues on March 10. To upgrade your membership to Founding Level, please do so here:
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