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Conference: “Contributing to Lasting Stability: the European Union’s Role in South East Europe” September 15, 2006 Biographies Franz-Lothar Altmann is Head of the Balkan Research Section (Research Unit EU External Relations) at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik), Berlin, and Director of the Board of the German Association for Eastern European Studies (Osteuropakunde e.V). He is a Member of the Board of the South East Europe Association, Vice-President of EALIZ and Associate Professor of the University of Bucharest, Romania. He is also the Editor-in-chief of Osteuropa-Wirtschaft (quarterly) and Co-Editor of the Journal for Southeast and Black Sea Studies (quarterly). His areas of expertise include: the political and economic transformation of East-Central and South East Europe; EU Eastern enlargement; economic developments and problems of South East and Central Europe; and political developments in the countries of South East Europe. He has written nine books and some 216 articles on Eastern and South East European economics and politics, transformation and European integration (EU enlargement). Email: [email protected] Web page: http://www.swp-berlin.org/ forscherprofil.php?id=1332&lang=en Robert Austin is Project Coordinator and Lecturer at the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (CERES) at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto. He is a specialist on Albania and Kosovo, with special emphasis on Albania’s transition and Albanian history between the two World Wars. In the past, he was a Tirana- based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; a Slovak-based correspondent with The Economist Group of Publications; and a news writer with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto. Email: [email protected] Web page: http://www.utoronto.ca/ceres/CIDA/instructors.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Serif Onur Bahcecik is a graduate student at the Carleton University Political Science Department. He holds a B.A. degree from Bosphorus University in Istanbul and an M.S. degree from Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Email: [email protected] ________________________________________________________________________ 1 Conference: “Contributing to Lasting Stability: the European Union’s Role in South East Europe” September 15, 2006 Alexandre Berlin is Honorary Director General of the European Commission and an Associate of the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has worked for the European Commission in a variety of capacities focusing primarily on public health issues, including European Commission Advisor (Luxembourg-Brussels) for the Public Health and Safety at Work Directorate (1992-1999) and European Commission Head of Division (Luxembourg) for Public Health (1986-1992). He is also a Consultant on EU- World Health Organization relations to the WHO, specializing in health and enlargement and environmental health. As a consultant to the Council of Europe, he focuses in particular on public health issues in South East Europe. E-mail: [email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ Mark Biondich holds a Ph.D. in history and is presently employed as an analyst with the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice Canada, in Ottawa. He has authored one book and a number of articles on Balkan history and politics and teaches courses at the Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS) or Carleton University, including a course on the Balkans E-mail: [email protected] Web page: http://www.carleton.ca/eurus/Faculty/Biondich.htm ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Bogdan Boduru is Lecturer at the Department of Economics and the Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS) at Carleton University. His research interests include investigating the determinants of success in the Central and Eastern European transition to democracy and market economy from a New Institutional Economics perspective. He has published several articles on economic issues in South East Europe, Russia and the former Soviet space. He received his PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University. E-mail: [email protected] Web page: http://www.carleton.ca/eurus/Faculty/Buduru.htm _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Lenard Cohen is Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University where he has been teaching since 1974. He specializes in Russian and East European politics, with a special focus on the Balkans. During the last decade he has also been working on questions of regional security in South East Europe, international relations and both Canadian and US foreign policy towards Eastern Europe. Professor Cohen has published several books and articles concerning the politics of the former Yugoslavia. His most recent books include ‘Serpent in the Bosom:' The Rise and Fall of Slobodan Milosevic, and the co- edited volumes “NATO and European Security: Alliance Politics from the End of the Cold War to the Age of Terrorism, and Foreign Policy Realignment in the Age of Terror and evic He received his PhD from Columbia University, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Web page: http://www.sfu.ca/politics/contact/lcoh_txt.html _________________________________________________________________________ 2 Conference: “Contributing to Lasting Stability: the European Union’s Role in South East Europe” September 15, 2006 Joan DeBardeleben is Director of the Centre for European Studies and of the Institute of European and Russian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science and of European and Russian Studies. Dr. DeBardeleben’s research has focussed on East German and Soviet/Russia politics, including environmental politics, public opinion, elections, and federalism. Since 2000 she has turned her attention to EU enlargement and EU-Russian relations. .Recent publications include: (editor and contributor) Soft or Hard Borders: Managing the Divide in an Enlarged Europe (Ashgate, 2005), Democratic Dilemmas of Multi-level Governance: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Representation in the European Union (co-editor with Achim Hurrrelmann, Palgrave, forthcoming) and The Formation of Labour Relations in post-Soviet Russia (co-editor and contributor with V. Yadov and S. Klimova, Moscow:,2004, in Russian). After completing a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature, she received her PhD in political science from the University of Wisconsin- Madison Email: [email protected] Web page: http://www.carleton.ca/eurus/Faculty/DeBardeleben.htm _________________________________________________________________________ Kjell Engelbrekt is Senior Lecturer at the Swedish National Defence College and Department of Political Science, Stockholm University. He has worked as a Research Analyst at the RFE/RL Research Institute in Munich, writing for Report on Eastern Europe, RFE/RL Research Report and the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has written numerous journal articles and book chapters. His book Security Policy Reorientation in Peripheral Europe: A Comparative-Perspectivist Approach was published with Ashgate in 2002. His present research focus is on institution-building in post-Communist societies in the context of European Union enlargement, conflict management and ethno-nationalism in South East Europe and EU Foreign, Security and Defence policy. He received his PhD from Stockholm University. E-mail: [email protected] Web page: http://www.statsvet.su.se/hemsidor/kjell_engelbrekt_right.htm John Fraser is a part-time Consultant on Balkan Affairs at the Privy Council Office, Ottawa and Adjunct Research Professor at the Institute of European and Russian Studies (EURUS), Carleton University. In the past he has worked with Canada’s Department of External Affairs, as a Foreign Service Visitor at Carleton University (1992-1994), as Director General of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau (1987-1992), Ambassador to Yugoslavia with dual accreditation to Bulgaria (1983-1987); Ambassador to Poland with dual accreditation to the GDR (1980-1983) and Director of Middle East Division (1976-1980). He also served in Washington, DC (1972-1976). Other capacities include Chargé d’Affaires to China – opened the Canadian Embassy in Peking (1971-1972); China Desk Officer (1968- 1970); served in Warsaw (1967-1968), Hong Kong (1965-1967) and Belgrade (1959-1962). He has published various articles on former Yugoslavia in the International Journal of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. E-mail: [email protected] 3 Conference: “Contributing to Lasting Stability: the European Union’s Role in South East Europe” September 15, 2006 Tom Gallagher is Professor at Bradford University, UK, where he holds the Chair of Ethnic Conflict and Peace. He is a regular analyst for well-known consultancy groups and a frequent visitor to the Balkan region. His research interests include the Northern Ireland conflict; the transition to democracy in the Balkans (particularly Romania) and the role of ethnicity; nationalism and strategies for managing inter-ethnic conflict. Much of his teaching and research focuses on the evolution of post-Communist states of South East Europe, with particular expertise on Romania. He is currently completing