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Note on Contributors

Sergiu Mişcoiu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where he chairs the Department of International Relations and American Studies. He obtained his PhD degree (2006) and his habilitation (2010) in Political Science at the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (France), as well as his PhD degree in History at the Babes-Bolyai University (2006). His main research interests are the constructivist and the alternative theories applied to the nation building processes, to populism and to the political dynamics of the European public spaces. He authored four books, co-edited fifteen national and international volumes and authored thirty articles published in Romania, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Moldova. Sergiu Miscoiu is also the Director of the Department of International Relations, a reviewer for Freedom House’s Annual Report Nations in Transit, the Editor-in-Chief of the Academic Journal Studia Europaea ([email protected]).

Sorina Soare is a lecturer of Comparative Politics at the University of Florence. She previ- ously taught at the University of Palermo, Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Bucharest and the Central European University in Budapest. She holds a PhD in political science from the University of Brussels and has previously studied political science at the University of Bucharest. Her research interests are primarily in the field of comparative politics, political parties and party systems, democratisation, and the relation between populism and democracy. Her current research focus on party regulation in Central and Eastern Europe ([email protected]).

Blagovesta Cholova is Phd candidate / teaching assistant at the Centre d’études de la vie politique (CEVIPOL) at Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research focuses on Populism and political parties in Central and Eastern Europe and especially in Bulgaria. Her Phd thesis is on the Right-wing populist parties in Bulgaria and she has published several articles and chapters on populism and political

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Jean-Michel De Waele Jean-Michel de Waele is professor of political science, dean of the Faculty of Social and political sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research interests include political parties in Central and Eastern Europe, soci- ology of sport and social democracy. He has recently published (with M. Vieira and F. Eascalona) The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union (Palgrave MacMillan: 2013) ([email protected]).

Soeren Keil is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom. His main research focuses on the political systems of the post-Yugoslav states and the process of EU enlargement. He is the author of “Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (Ashgate 2013) and the editor of “State-Building in the Western Balkans: European Approaches to Democratization” (Routledge 2013). He is currently working on an edited volume titled “State-Building and Democratization in Bosnia and Herzegovina” (with Valery Perry, forthcoming 2014 with Ashgate) and a volume on “From to Europe-The Foreign Policies of the Post-Yugoslav States” (with Bernhard Stahl, forthcoming 2014 with Palgrave) ([email protected]).

Dragana Nikolić is an LLM candidate at the University of Cambridge (specialization in interna- tional ). She obtained her BA degree in law with distinction from the (specialization in legal theory). She was studying international relations at the University of Montana and gained additional ECTS credits from the University of Oslo, University of and Canterbury Christ Church University. Dragana was an intern at the Norwegian Helsinki Committee­ and Institute for Law and Finance, as well as Visiting Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University in 2012. She is currently a researcher in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Project (CPB Project). As a member of the University of Belgrade team, she won the Pieter Sanders Award for the Best Memorandum for Claimant at the XX Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot and the third award for the Memorandum for Claimant at the VI FDI International Arbitration Moot ([email protected]).

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