There’s Strength in Networks: The External Incentives Model and Informality in South-Eastern Europe
Venue
Violet Laidlaw Room, CMBDescription
12pm - 12:10pm - Introduction by Andrea Christou, current PhD student, University of Edinburgh
12:10pm - 1pm - Dr Alexander Mesarovich - Talk
1pm 1:30pm - Q&A session
1:30pm - 2:30pm - Networking lunch (provided)
Alexander Mesarovich earned his PhD (Politics) at the University of Edinburgh. His thesis analysed the impact of informal political networks on the EU accession processes of Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia; winning the SPS Award for Best Thesis and the UK Doctoral Research Award for the best thesis in Management and the Social Sciences in the UK. Since finishing his PhD, Alexander has been a teaching assistant at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling and has worked as a Temporary Lecturer in Politics at the University of Strathclyde.
He is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) studying the impact of transnational linkages on the diffusion of illiberalism and populism across Central and Eastern Europe
The talk itself will be about what we can learn from the experience of accession in the Western Balkans, both theoretically and to help the new candidate states of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.