The Balkans after, or before, Davos?
Interpreting geopolitics in the aftermath of Mark Carney’s speech
|30.01.2026
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The most uncomfortable truth is that the ritual is co-produced. Balkan elites have learned to thrive inside it.
The Balkans do not need another speech about realism. They need — and they must create — the conditions under which public life stops depending on staged compliance, externally and internally.
Liridona Veliu Ashiku
Liridona Veliu Ashiku is the Program Manager for Research and Policy at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is a former Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and holds a PhD from Dublin City University. Her work bridges academic scholarship and public policy, contributing to debates on democracy, peacebuilding and foreign policy, with a focus on the Balkans and their Euro-Atlantic processes
DISCLAIMERThe views of the writer do not necessarily reflect the views of Kosovo 2.0.
This story was originally written in English.