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Bojana Zorić
Dr Bojana Zorić joined the Institute in September 2023 as a Research Analyst for the Western Balkans. In this capacity, she covers the analysis of policy and security developments in the Western Balkans, particularly in the context of enlargement, transatlantic relations, third-party influence, as well as other day-to-day developments that affect Euro-Atlantic security infrastructure.
Previously, she held the position of Senior Policy Analyst at the Regional Cooperation Council in Sarajevo, where she, among others, led the analysis of the Balkan Barometer, including in security and (geo)political domains. Before that, she was stationed in Brussels with the European Committee of the Regions and in Stockholm with the Swedish International Liberal Centre, where she worked on democracy building and promotion in Eastern Partnership countries.
Bojana contributed to book volumes published by Routledge and Springer Handbook of Political Science and International Relations and has published in several peer-reviewed journals focusing on security developments in the Western Balkans, including in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, and North Macedonia.
She holds a PhD in Political Science with a specialisation in Security Studies from Masaryk University. She also completed an MA in European Union-Russia Studies at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (University of Tartu) and an MA in Russian Philology and Pedagogy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Zagreb). As part of her academic journey, she also studied at KU Leuven, Saint Petersburg State University, and Tallinn University.
*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 (1999) and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
Džankić, J., Bonomi, M., Juzová, J. & Zorić, B., 2024. Enlargement on Hold: The Price Europe Pays. REWEU “(Re)uniting the East and West: Reflections on the impact of 2004 enlargement, funded by the European Commission (European Education and Culture Executive Agency – EACEA). Available at: http://20years.eu/enlargement-on-hold/.
Němec, J. and Zorić, B., 2024. Friends of Foes within the Pan-Slavic Brotherhood: A Narrative Analysis of Aleksandar Vučić’s Stance on Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine. Cambridge University Press. Available at: Cambridge University Press
Stojarová, V. and Zorić, B., 2024. Political Islam and Islamism in the Western Balkans. In: Springer Handbook of Political Islam in Europe: Activities, Means, and Strategies from Salafists to the Muslim Brotherhood and Beyond. Springer Handbooks of Political Science and International Relations. Available at: Springer
Zorić, B. and Stojarová, V., 2023. Non-Western influence operations in North Macedonia: a reason for concern or push towards the west? European Security, 32(4). Available at: European Security
Zorić, B. and Němec, J., 2023. Gospels of Reconciliation in North Macedonia: Skating on the Thin Ice of Albanian-Macedonian Inter-Ethnic Dialogue. Peace Review, a Journal of Social Justice, 35(1). Available at: Peace Review
Zorić, B. and Stojarová, V., 2022. Building Sustainable Peace and Security in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Dancing in a Vicious Circle. In: Peace and Security in the Western Balkans: A Local Perspective. Available at: Routledge