Interview with Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at Boston University

Since July 2016, Vesko Garčević has been teaching as Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, at Boston University.

During his diplomatic career, he held important positions at the challenging political time of the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and democratic transition of Montenegro. From January 2015 through June 2016, Garcevic was General Director for NATO and Security Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Montenegro and National Coordinator for NATO. He was a Montenegrin Ambassador to NATO from 2010 to 2014 as well as a bilateral Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. After Montenegro regained independence in 2006, he served as the first Montenegrin Ambassador to Austria and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Garčević is a long-standing friend of Summer School for Young Diplomats and was one of the panelist at this year’s edition where he led the conversation about US elections and what comes next for the US in foreign affairs. On this occasion Prva TV had interview with Vesko Garčević.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these interview are those of the individuals involved and do not reflect official policy or position of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro and its Diplomatic Academy.