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September 2009

The Final Report of the King Baudoin Foundation’s Minority Rights in Practice has just been published.

August 2009

Article on confidence building in the post Yugoslav states for Austrian TV-Radio Webportal in German entitled Vertrauen als Kriegsopfer.

Commentary on a report on how to reform higher education in the UK ‘Quality control’ is the problem, not the solution in the Times Higher Education.

June 2009

New Article: “Territory, Identity and the Challenge of Serbia’s EU Integration,”  Wolfgang Petritsch, Goran Svilanovic, Christophe Solioz (eds), Serbia Matters: Domestic Reforms and European Integration (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2009).

As for April 2009, I have been named editor in chief of Nationalities Papers. As part of the changes since taking over, the journal is receiving a new visual identity, changing its description. Submission are welcome!

May 2009

Op-ed commentary with Gülnur Aybet on the visit of the US vice president Joe Biden to the Balkans for Newsweek/Washington Post PostGlobal website, 27.5.2009.

Interview for Radio Free Europe on the third anniversary of Montenegro’s Independence, 22.5.2009

April 2009

Interview for Radio Kosovo, 30.4.2009

New Article: “Serbien zwischen Europa und Kosovo. Politische Entwicklungen seit der Unabhängigkeitserklärung” Südosteuropa, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2008

Comments for Koha Ditore on the case at the ICJ over Kosovo’s declaration of independence. For an English version, see the blog.

March 2009

Interview for the Blog East-Central Europe Past and Present

Talk on How Independent Is Independent: Kosovo, Year One, Peace Studies, Cornell University, 5 March 2009

February 2009

A short article on the first year of independent Kosovo: Kosovo: one year on, Open Democracy

Commentary on an article by Anthony Oberschall, Creating an Ethnic Peace, Sociological Analysis, Vol. 2, 2008, pp. 139-141.

January 2009

I am joining the team of the journal Global Society as Associate Editor. Contributions are welcome!

From January until May I am at Cornell University as the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies.

December 2008

Interview for the Bosnian weekly DANI on the political situation in Bosnia and reforms.

Workshop on EU and NATO integration of Bosnia, the final event of the BA funded project with Gulnur Aybet.

Discussion on the Western Balkans with James Lyons for the program Most with Omer Karabeg on Radio Free Europe

November 2008

New publication: Political Parties and Minority particpation, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Comments regarding reconciliation and ethnic politics in Bosnia for Radio Free Europe

Conference on where Bosnia and Herzegovina is heading by 2014, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Sararjevo

October 2008

Report on the implementation of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities for the Council of Europe, presented in Strasbourg

September 2008

Presentation of a book on power-sharing in Macedonia, the book is available at the FES website in Engish, Macedonian and Albanian.

Commentary on Sonja Biserko’s “The EU and the Serbian Civil Society”, Europe’s World