Experts
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Asya Metodieva
Researcher, Institute of International Relations in Prague
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Damir Kapidžić
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Sarajevo
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Diana Mishkova
Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia and Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Modern and contemporary history of Southeastern Europe
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Engjellushe Morina
Senior Policy Fellow
Euro-Atlantic integration; green agenda; Balkan politics and foreign policy; violent extremism; peacebuilding and conflict transformation, dialogue, and mediation
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Enri Hide
Research Associate Professor at the European University of Tirana and Executive Director of the Regional Center for Democracy and Security in Albania
Geopolitical dynamics, non-Western influences, international security and religiously motivated terrorism in the Western Balkans and Southeastern Europe
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Francesco Strazzari
Professor in International Relations at Scuola Universitaria Superiore Sant'Anna
adjunct professor at the Bologna-based SAIS Europe - The Johns Hopkins University
Peace and conflict studies, specifically focusing on armed violence and extra-legal governance (transnational organised crime)
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Gosia Piaskowska
Policy Fellow
Political movements, Feminist economics, European integration, CEE countries and Poland
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Jan Daniel
Senior researcher, Head of the Centre for the Study of Global Regions at the Institute of International Relations Prague
Politics and security in the Middle East (with a focus on Lebanon and Syria), Czech foreign and security policy, and societal security, particularly concerning debates on hybrid warfare, foreign malign influence and radicalization
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Jan Švec
Researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague
Theory of authoritarianism, politics of China, impact of modern technology on governance, and human rights.
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Kari Osland
Director of NUPI
Conflict dynamics, insurgencies, war, violent extremism and resilience, genocide, peace operations and crisis management, police, the Western Balkans, the Sahel.
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Ketevan Bolkvadze
Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Lund University
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Kristaq Xharo
Lecturer in International Relations at the European University of Tirana
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Luka Filipović
Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia
Relations between Marxist parties and European movements during the Cold War and the contemporary rise of populist movements in Europe.
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Maia Machavariani
Director of Programs at the Eastern European Centre for Multiparty Democracy (EECMD)
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Marie Dumoulin
Director, Wider Europe programme at ECFR
Europe's Eastern neighbourhood, Russia, protracted conflicts
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Marlene Marx
External policies of the EU, the Eastern neighbourhood, and European defence
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Martin Laryš
Researcher and deputy research director at the Institute of International Relations Prague
energy policy and political violence in the Post-Soviet Space, focusing on armed conflicts, organized crime, extremism and terrorism
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Mathilde T. E. Giske
Doctoral Research Fellow
European integration; EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy; EU´s foreign and security policy; hybrid regimes; democratisation
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Morten Bøås
Research Professor at NUPI
Insurgencies & civil wars; asymmetrical warfare; society – society relations; fragile state, refugees & migrants
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Muamer Hirkić
Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
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Natalia Putină
Associate professor of Political and Administrative Sciences and Department of International of International Relations, Moldova State University
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Natalia Stercul
Associate Professor, Political Analyst
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Oleksandr Sniadanko
Legal Adviser at Alcor
Researcher at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and for Re-Engage
EU Law, including Data Privacy regulations, AI compliance, Cybersecurity, and E-commerce regulations
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Ondřej Ditrych
Senior analyst at the European Union Institute for Security Studies and an associate researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague
Terrorism and revolutionary violence in global politics, NATO and European security, ethnopolitical conflicts in the post-Soviet space, and global trends and their predictions.
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Pelin Ayan Musil
Senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations Prague
Democratization and regimes change, political parties and their systems, social movements, ethnic and religious politics with a focus on contemporary Turkey and the Middle East.
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Pernille Rieker
Research Professor
European integration; EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy; EU´s foreign and security policy as well as European foreign and security policies with a special focus on the Nordic states and France.
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Piotr Buras
Senior Policy Fellow
Germany's EU and foreign policy; Poland in the EU; EU politics
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Roman Petrov
President of the Ukrainian European Studies Association and Head of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies
EU Law, EU External Relations Law; Approximation and Harmonisation of Legislation in the EU; Rights of Third Country Nationals in the EU, EU-Ukraine Association, Legal Aspects of Regional Integration in the Post-Soviet Area
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Sead Turčalo
Associate Professor at the Department of Peace and Security Studies, Dean, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Geopolitics, International Security, Energy Security, and Conflict Management in International Relations
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Sophie Gueudet
Research fellow at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, associate researcher with the PeaceRep Ukraine programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Separatist conflicts, contested territories and sovereignties in the post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet spaces
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Tefta Kelmendi
Deputy Director, Wider Europe at ECFR
Post-conflict state building; security and protracted conflicts in the Western Balkans and eastern neighbourhood; Kosovo-Serbia conflict
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Valentina Teosa
Associate Professor at the Moldova State University
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Valida Repovac-Nikšić
Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Vice Dean for Science and Research, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo
Cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, populism, active citizenship, and democratic innovations.
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Vessela Tcherneva
Senior policy fellow
EU foreign policy; Western Balkans and Black Sea regions; transatlantic relations; regional studies; energy
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Vladimir Petrović
Research Professor at the University of Amsterdam’s NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Head of the Innovation Center at the Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade
Mass political violence and policies of dealing with its legacy