Visiting Speaker: Dr Florian Bieber

The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans. The interrelationship between Europeanization and the New Authoritarian Temptation

Date	27 January 2015
Time	6:00 - 7:30pm
Venue	Cañada Blanch Room, (COW 1.11),  1st floor, Cowdray House, LSE, London WC2A 2AE
Speaker	Dr Florian Bieber, University of Graz
Chair	Dr James Ker-Lindsay, LSEE Research on SEE, London School of Economics

Dr Florian Bieber is a Professor of Southeast European Studies and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. His research interests include institutional design in multiethnic states, nationalism and ethnic conflict, as well as the political systems of South-eastern Europe. He published articles on institutional design, nationalism and politics in South-eastern Europe in Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Third World Quarterly, Current History, International Peacekeeping, Ethnopolitcs and other journals. He is the author of Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milošević (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2005, in German) and Post-War Bosnia: Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector (London: Palgrave, 2006).

The presentation will explore the features and causes of the emergence of democracies in the Western Balkans with strong authoritarian features. Particular interest and focus will be on the interrelationship with the EU integration process and the question to which degree the Europeanisation process might have contributed to the emergence and consolidation of these regimes.

 

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