Dr Gülnur Aybet, Principal Investigator
Gülnur Aybet’s expertise is in European security institutions and their legitimacy. She is a SouthEast Europe Policy Scholar for 2009 at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C. In 2004 she completed a British Academy project on Norms and Nation Building as a visiting scholar at the Center for Transatlantic Relations (CTR) at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. She is a Senior Associate Member of St Antony’s College, Oxford and had previously given evidence to House and Lords Committees on NATO related issues. She is the author of A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy (Macmillan 2000) and The Dynamics of European Security Cooperation 1945-1991(Macmillan Palgrave 2001). Her monograph entitled “NATO’s Developing Role in Collective Security’ for the Strategic Research Center in Ankara was distributed at NATO’s Washington summit in 1999. She has published articles in Security Dialogue, International Journal, Foreign Policy and Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans. Gulnur’s other research interests include Greek-Turkish relations and Turkish foreign policy.
For more information please see: http://www.gulnur-aybet.net/
Dr Florian Bieber, Co Investigator
Dr Florian Bieber has been working on former Yugoslavia and external intervention for over a decade. He is a lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent. Between January and May 2009, he holds the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Before joining the University of Kent in 2006, Florian Bieber has been working for five years in Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the European Centre for Minority Issues. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, and has taught at the Regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and the Interdisciplinary Master in East European Studies and Research (MIREES), University of Bologna. He has been an International Policy Fellow of the Open Society Institute and provided policy advice to the European Union and a number of Foreign Ministries. His research interests include institutional design in multiethnic states, nationalism and ethnic conflict, as well as the political systems of South-eastern Europe.
He has published extensively on Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the monograph Post-War Bosnia: Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector (London: Palgrave, 2006), published in Bosnian as Bosna i Hercegovina poslije rata: politicki sistem u podijeljenom drustvu (Sarajevo: Buybook, 2008). He has also published articles on institutional design, nationalism and politics in South-eastern Europe in Nationalities Papers, Third World Quarterly, Current History, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, International Peacekeeping, Ethnopolitcs and other journals. He is the author of Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005, in German) and edited and co-edited four books on South-eastern Europe.
For more information please see: http:/fbieber.wordpress.com/
Dr Neven Anđelić, Research Associate
Neven Anđelić’s interests lie in human rights, nationalism, the Balkans, international relations, media and political communications. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California – Berkeley where he taught a course on Europe and human rights. He also worked and taught at the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies in Sarajevo. While in London he combines academic and media careers. He taught course on human rights at Birkbeck College and worked for CNN. Neven is currently freelancing for CNN and has worked for BBC while teaching a course on Total War and Social Changes in Europe at the Open University. In 2003, he published ‘Bosnia-Herzegovina: The End of a Legacy’ (Frank Cass, London) and has just published in Sarajevo a Short History of Human Rights in the local language. He also writes articles and chapters for academic publications and journalistic magazines in several countries.
