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Stefano Bianchini is Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna and Rector’s delegate for relations with Eastern Europe. Former director of the two-years Interdisciplinary Master of Arts in East European Studies (mirees), a joint diploma of the Universities of Bologna, St. Petersburg, Vytautas Magnus at Kaunas, and Corvinus of Budapest. He is visiting professor of the State University of St. Petersburg and holds a H.D. in Humanities of the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. From 2001 to 2018 he was also the co-director of the European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights for see (erma) awarding a double diploma of the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna. He is a member of the Executive Committee and former Vice president of the As- sociation for Studies of Nationalities (asn) based at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University (New York), Executive Editor of the blind peer-review journal “Southeastern Europe”, published by Brill, Leiden, and other academic journals.

Sonja Biserko is a Chairperson of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia. She worked on a variety of civil and human rights programs (Helsinki Watch, Law- yers Committee for Human Rights, UN Center for Human Rights, Mazowiecki’s mission and the Tribunal in The Hague). Biserko is an awardee of the number prizes for humans’ rights work and a Senior fellow at the US Institute for Peace, Washington, DC (2001), Eric lane Fellowship, Clare College, Cambridge (2012), Member of the UN Commission of Inquiry for North Korea (2013), Group of Independent Experts on Accountability 2016 (North Korea).

Petar Cholakov is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the issk, Bulgarian Academy of Sci- ences. His latest monograph is Cholakov, P. (2018) Ethnic Entrepreneurs Un- masked: Political Institutions and Ethnic Conflicts in Contemporary Bulgaria (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, distributed by Columbia University Press in North and South America). In addition to his academic background, Cholakov has more than 20 years of professional experience as political consultant.

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Jean F. Crombois (Phd Contemporary European History, Free University of Brussels, 1999 and Postgraduate Diploma in Political Science, 1993, University of Essex) is As- sociate Professor of EU Politics at the American University in Bulgaria since 2005. His main areas of research include the EU’s Eastern Partnership, Interest Groups and European Integration as well as History and Theory of European Integration. His last book: Camille Gutt and Postwar Finance (Routledge, 2016). Contributions on current affairs published in The Contemporary Review (Oxford) and Revue des Deux Mondes (Paris).

Nemanja Džuverović is Associate Professor in Peace Studies at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences, Serbia. He is Co-editor of the Journal of Regional Security. He has published articles in Peacebuilding Journal, Ethnopolitics, Peace Re- view and range of book chapters relating to inequality-conflict nexus, peacebuilding and statebuilding in the Balkans.

Jasmina Gavrankapetanović-Redžić teaches at the University of Sarajevo. She holds an MA from the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, Japan and an MSc in Culture and Society from lse. She obtained a PhD in Art and Media Theory at the University of Arts, Belgrade. She is a jsps international research fellow at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

Robert M. Hayden is Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He has done extensive research in and on the Balkans and India. During the 1990s he analyzed events in what had been Yugoslavia very closely. Since 2002 he has devoted most of his efforts to comparative anal- yses of the ways in which religious sites serve as focal points of competitive in- teractions between religiously-identified communities, and how control over central religious sites indexes the relations of dominance and subordination of the communities involved.

Tvrtko Jakovina is professor and former head of the Department of History, Faculty of Humani- ties and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is the author of “Socialism on the American Grain” /Socijalizam na američkoj pšenici/ (2002), “The Ameri- can Communist Ally. Croats, Tito’s Yugoslavia and the United States 1945– 1955” /Američki komunistički saveznik; Hrvati, Titova Jugoslavija i Sjedinjene

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