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The Origins of Peter W. Galbraith’s Mission to the Balkans

Publication date: 21.11.2024

Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 307 - 321

https://doi.org/10.4467/2543733XSSB.24.018.20042

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Sławomir Lucjan Szczesio
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The Origins of Peter W. Galbraith’s Mission to the Balkans

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One of the biggest challenges for the international community at the beginning of 1990s became the issue of the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Peter Galbraiths appointment as the US ambassador to Croatia in 1993 came at a critical juncture in the Balkan conflicts. Prior to his ambassadorship, Galbraith was an advisor to the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He visited the countries of the former Yugoslavia several times as an expert in the early 1990s. Ambassador Galbraith played a crucial role in addressing the Balkan conflicts. As the first US ambassador to Croatia, he actively supported the countrys territorial integrity after the breakup of Yugoslavia. Galbraiths diplomacy was instrumental in fostering U.S. pressure that ended the Croat-Muslim conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, laying the groundwork for the Washington Agreement of 1994. This agreement, seen as a diplomatic success, paved the way for the Dayton Agreement in 1995.

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Information: Central European and Balkan Studies, 2024, Volume XXXIII, pp. 307 - 321

Article type: Original article

Published at: 21.11.2024

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Sławomir Lucjan Szczesio is an assistant professor at the University of Łódź, the Department of the History of Poland and the World after 1945, Faculty of Philosophy and History and he is the Secretary of Academia at The Research Centre of the University of Łódź “The Balkans at the turn of the 20th and 21st Century”. Mr. Szczesio’s research interests focus on the history of Yugoslavia and the role of the international community in the Yugoslav conflicts.

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