Talks

Past Talks

• Keynote Speech, One Decade after the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Lessons (to be) learned from the Macedonian Experience. CRPM, Skopje, 24-26.6.2011.

• Volkszählungen im ehemaligen Jugoslawien, Institut für Slawistik, Gralis, Graz, 22.6.2011.

• Gibt es einen südosteuropäischen Populismus? Keynote Speech, Populismus und Euro-Skeptizismus in Südosteuropa nach 1989, Jena.Wissenschaftliches Symposium des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs 1412 “Kulturelle Orientierungen und Gesellschaftliche Ordnungsstrukturen in Südosteuropa” der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und der Universität Erfurt, 17.6.2011.

• Dinner Speech, PfP Consortium Arbeitsgruppe, Regional Stability in South East Europe, Reichenau/Rax, 13.5. 2011.

• Comparing the Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Arab World, Central European University, 31.3.2011.

• Politische Systeme und Eliten im Kontext des europäischen Integrationsprozesses der Westbalkanländer, Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung, Universität Wien, IDM, Vienna, 23.2.2011.

• “Yugoslav” Institutional Solutions for the Post-Yugoslav Space, Rapprochement as a Paradigm Shift: Does the Wheel Come Full Circle in Ex-Yugoslavia? International Workshop, Regensburg, 11-13.2.2011

• Montenegro seit der Unabhängigkeit: Monaco der Adria und Potemkinsche Reformen, Zentrum Ost-/Südosteuropa, St. Pölten, Austria, 4.11.2010.

• Prospects for reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina after the elections,  75^th Rose-Roth, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, South Eastern Europe: Creating New Momentum, Skopje, 20.10.2010.

• Kontinuitäten und Brüche in der Entwicklung von Institutionen, 49. Internationale Hochschulwoche, Politische Institutionen und Kulturin Südosteuropa, Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, Tutzing, 7.10.2010.

• Governance in Bosnia between Minimalism and EU Membership, State Building in Divided Socities, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Lebanese Association of Sociology,  Beirut, 24.9.2010.
  

• Multiple citizenship as a group right: The ultimate threat to statehood?, Theories and Practices of Citizenship in the New Balkan States, Edinburgh, 24-25.6.2010

• Is Valter coming back? On the (im)possibilty of overcoming ethnic divisions in Dayton Bosnia, Workshop: Bosnia, Looking beyond Institutions, Brussels, 28-29.5.2010.

• Origins and Legacies of State Weakness in Southeastern Europe, Workshop The role of the state in South East Europe today, SEESOX, Oxford University, 21.5.2010

• Making Consociationalism Work? The Failure of Constitutional Reform in Bosnia, IPEC, Queen’s University, Belfast, 14.5.2010.

• Is Bosnia failing? The future of a divided society and what it means for multinational states, Central European University, 31.3.2010.

• A (Un-)Democratic Contradiction? EU Democracy Promotion in former Yugoslavia, Indiana Democracy Consortium, Indiana University, 22.2.2010.

• The Ghost in the Machine: The Legacy of Yugoslavia’s National Policy, University of Edinburgh, 8.2.2010.

• The Independence of Kosovo and its Implications for the Balkans, Waseda University, Tokyo,20.1.2010.

• The End of Dayton Bosnia?, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2009.

• The Balkans after Kosovo’s Independence: Between a European Perspective and Stagnation, University Bologna, 2009.

• How Ethnic Diversity Delays Democratization: Lessons from Bosnia & Lebanon, Cornell University, 2009.

• EU Conditionality in Bosnia, Columbia University, 2009.

• Power-sharing and its Alternatives in former Yugoslavia, MIT, 2009.

• Kosovo one year after Independence, Cornell, 2009.

• EU and NATO Conditionality in Bosnia: The Impact of Police and Defence Reform on State Building, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2008

• The Balkans: Promotion of Power-Sharing by Outsiders, University of Pennsylvania, 2008.

• EU and NATO conditionality in state building in Bosnia, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2008.

• Between Europe and Kosovo? Serbia after the Presidential Elections, Nationalism Studies, Central European University, 2008.

• EU and NATO state-building in the Balkans; Synergies and Linkages, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, January 2008.

• Historical and Political Background of Montenegro [in German], Commerzbank, 2007.

• The Contradictions of Nation- and Statebuilding in Montenegro, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2007.

• The Kosovo Precedent? Secession and Frozen Conflicts,  Schapiro lecture series, London School of Economics, 2007.

• Referendum, Status, Loss? State and Nation-Building in Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2006.

• One Nation, Many Nationalisms? Competing Strategies of Nation and State-building in Former Yugoslavia, Luigi Einaudi Lecture, Cornell University, 2006.

• (Why) Does Nationalism Persist in the Western Balkans? South East European Studies, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, November 2004.

• Nationalism, Ethnicity and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia, Romanian Institute for Recent History, Bucharest, January 2004.

• Political Perspectives for Montenegro, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna, November 2003.

• Reconciling Ethnicity with Democracy: The Record of Institutional Design in Bosnia, Centre for Policy Studies, CEU, Budapest, March 2003.

• The Dynamics of Nationalist Mobilization, Fragmentation and the Difficult Demobilization: The Case of Serbia, Nationalism Studies, CEU, Budapest, March 2003.

• Multiethnicity and Governance in Post-War Kosovo, Nationalism Studies, CEU, Budapest, March 2002.