Valery Perry talks with Samir Beharic, who started his career as a young activist in high school and is now working on his PhD in Germany. They talk about the lack of concerted civic actions in BiH and the region taking on the big issues and frustrations that unite people, in general but in particular with regard to mining and extraction. The inability to break out of these straight jackets makes the global tectonic shifts happening even more worrying. But both agree that the only solutions that work will ultimately come from the bottom up.

Valery Perry talks with Adnan Huskić in a conversation that quickly veers into the big picture macro political shifts that are shaking the world, while considering what this means for BiH and the region.

Huskić, a seasoned Bosnian political analyst and academic, provides a forensic and wide-ranging examination of the democratic crises simultaneously afflicting Bosnia-Herzegovina and the wider liberal world order. He describes the Dayton thirtieth-anniversary events as "lukewarm" — exercises in box-ticking rather than genuine stock-taking — and situates Bosnia's stagnation within a global pattern of "entropy": the slow, barely noticed dismantling of norms, educational quality, institutional integrity, and media independence that has allowed autocratic instincts to fill the vacuum. He notes the concept of "distortion of preferences" — the growing gap between what populations actually want and what political elites deliver — as the structural driver of democratic backsliding everywhere, from Washington to Sarajevo.

DPC's Valery Perry talks with City Councilman Matt Joseph, a big friend of Bosnia and Herzegovina about his vision for BiH, and his reflections about democracy in the US in 2026.