Vesko Garčević

Vesko Garčević is a former Montenegrin diplomat who served as Ambassador of Montenegro to NATO in Brussels and to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna, as well as Ambassador to Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. He held senior diplomatic posts during the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Montenegro’s democratic transition, and after independence in 2006, became Montenegro’s first Ambassador to Austria and the OSCE. An expert in multilateral diplomacy and European security, Ambassador Garčević has participated in major international forums, including the Munich Security Conference, the Brussels Forum, and the Halifax International Security Forum, and has taken part in NATO summits and UN General Assembly meetings. He has published widely on diplomacy and security, including contributions to The Palgrave Handbook of Diplomatic Reform and Innovation, and is co-author of Montenegro and Serbia: A Velvet Divorce? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). His areas of expertise include European security, EU enlargement, NATO policy, the Western Balkans, and the diplomacy of small states.