Dr Branislav Radeljic is a senior lecturer in international politics within the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London. His main research interests focus on the study of European Union politics and the Western Balkans. In addition to these, Branislav is interested in, and has written about, the presence of Islam in the EU and its impact on future EU policy-making. He has presented and discussed his ideas at numerous conferences and public lectures across Europe, America and Asia. Outside academia, Branislav conducts research and provides consultancy services within his area of expertise.

Qualifications

PhD in Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London
MSc in European Integration and Development, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
MA in International Politics, Free University of Brussels (ULB)
BA in Humanities, La Sapienza, University of Rome

East West Bridge

UK Chartered Institute of Linguists

North American Society for Serbian Studies

New York State Association of European Historians

Japanese Society for Slavic and East European Studies

European Union, Western Balkans, European identity, Islam

BA International Politics

MSc International Relations

AI1306 International Relations

AI2306 The UN in World Politics

AI3000 Politics Research Methods

AI3319 The United States as a Global Power

AI3333 European Union Politics (from Sem A 2013/14)

AIM204 Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences

Books and Edited Volumes

European Community and Yugoslavia: Documents that Mattered (1968-1992), London and New York: I. B. Tauris (in preparation);

European Identity: Bright Ideas, Dim Prospects (ed), Oxford: Peter Lang (in preparation);

Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space (ed), Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013;

Europe and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: The Role of Non-State Actors and European Diplomacy, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2012;

European Identity (co-editor, special issue of The Review of International Affairs), Vol. LXIII, No. 1145, 2012.

Journal Articles (post-2011)

'From Brussels to Belgrade: Challenges in Conducting Qualitative Research on the Collapse of Yugoslavia,' Qualitative Inquiry, forthcoming 2013;

'Islam kao izazov evropskoj toleranciji?,' Interkulturalnost, Issue 4, 2012, 38-46;

'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?,' Izazovi evropskih integracija, Issue 21, 2012, 117-125;

'On European Identity: Origins, Challenges and Prospects,' The Review of International Affairs, Vol. LXIII, No. 1145, 2012, 7-23;

'Muslimanska dijaspora i evropski identitet: Politika ekskluzije i inkluzije,' Interkulturalnost, No. 3, 2012, 78-89;    

'Islam in the European Union: Key Issues and Debates,' Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011, 75-87;

'An Unstable Decade: The European Economic Community and Yugoslavia 1968-1979,' Japanese Slavic and East European Studies, Vol. 32, 2011, 89-106;

'The European Economic Community and Yugoslavia in the 1980s,' South Slav Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3-4, 2011, 90-116;

'How Do European Young Muslims View European Identity?,' Etnoantropološki problemi, Vol. 6, No. 4, 2011, 871-884;

'Blessing the Collapse of Yugoslavia: The Vatican’s Role in EC Policy-Making,' Serbian Studies Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2011, 177-204; 

'Questionable Adaptation: Young Muslims and European Identity,' Forum 21: European Journal on Child and Youth Research, No. 7, 2011, 66-72.

Book Chapters

'Muslim Diaspora and European Identity: The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion,' in Sadananda Sahoo and B. K. Pattanaik (eds), Diaspora and Development: Perspectives, Issues and Practices, New Delhi: Springer, forthcoming 2013;

'The Future of the Post-Yugoslav Space,' in Branislav Radeljić (ed), Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space, Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013;

'Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space: From Intervention to Integration,' in Branislav Radeljić (ed), Europe and the Post-Yugoslav Space, Farnham: Ashgate, forthcoming 2013; 

'The European Neighborhood Policy and its Capacity to Manage Mobility and Migration,' in Margaret Walton-Roberts and Jenna Hennebry (eds), Looking over the Wall and beyond the Fortress: New Spatialities of Migration and Migration Control in the Context of EU Enlargement, New York, NY: Springer, forthcoming 2013;

Diaspora Impact on European Community Policy Making: Ex-Yugoslavia as a Case Study,” in Ulrike Ziemer (ed), East European Diasporas, Migration and Cosmopolitanism, Oxon: Routledge, 2013, 43-57.

Review Essays

'Democratizing and Europeanizing the Western Balkans: Contexts, Challenges and Prospects,' East European Politics, forthcoming 2013;

'Turkey and Europe: Actors, Policies and Consequences,' Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2012, 381-386;

'A Note from the Profession Considering Book Reviews: One Book and Three Conflicting Reviews of Interwar Yugoslavia,' The Historian, Vol. 73, No. 4, 2011, 792-796.

Book Reviews (post-2011)

Mark Biondich, The Balkans: Revolution, War and Political Violence since 1878 (2011), European Review of History-Revue européenne d’historie, forthcoming;

Tomislav Z. Longinović, Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary (2011), Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2012, 247-248;

Cerwyn Moore, Contemporary Violence: Postmodern war in Kosovo and Chechnya (2010), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2012, 246-247; 

Catherine Baker, Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (2010), Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 64, No. 2, 2012, 384-385;

Jan Orbie (ed), Europe’s Global Role: External Policies of the European Union (2009), Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2011, 510-512; 

Dimitris Livanios, The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans 1939-1949 (2008), European History Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 4, 2011, 709-711; 

H. Richard Freeman and Simon Reich (eds), Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans (2007), South Slav Journal, Vol. 30, No. 1-2, 2011, 127-130; 

Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein (eds), European Identity (2009), The Review of International Affairs, Vol. LXII, No. 1142, 2011, 69-71;

Stevan K. Pavlowitch, Hitler’s New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia (2008), European Review of History-Revue européenne d’historie, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2011, 277-279; 

Oto Luthar (ed), The Land Between: A History of Slovenia (2008), European History Quarterly, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2011, 141-143; 

Dennison Rusinow, Yugoslavia: Oblique Insights and Observations (2008), Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 63, No. 1, 2011, 168-169;

Russell King, Nicola Mai and Stephanie Schwandner, The New Albanian Migration (2005), Balkanistica, No. 25, 2011, 245-247.

Selected Conferences and Lectures (post-2011)

'Serbia's New Government and the Politics of (no) Alternatives'
Paper presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland, March 2013

'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?'
Paper presented at the International Colloquium on Disintegration and Integration in East-Central Europe (1919 - post-1989), Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, February 2013

'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?'
Paper presented at the 50th Anniversary Central Slavic Conference, St. Louis, MI, USA, November 2012

'Europe and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: Existing and Potential Arguments'                       
Keynote speech delivered at the Euroacademia International Conference 'Re-Inventing Eastern Europe,' Vienna, Austria, May 2012 

'Islam as a Challenge to European Tolerance?'                                                                       
Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Religions and Religious Policies, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2012

'European Identity: Origins, Challenges and Prospects'
Lecture given at the Department of History, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2012   

2012 USA tour

• Discussant at the Western US Graduate Student Research Workshop on the European Union, European Union Center of Excellence, University of California at Berkeley, CA, May 2012
• 'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?'
  Lecture given at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (co-sponsored by the Europe Center), Stanford University, CA, May 2012
• 'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?'
  Annual Peter N. Kujachich Endowed Lecture in Serbian and Montenegrin Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, CA, May 2012
• 'European Involvement in Serbia: From Intervention to Integration?'
  Lecture given at the Department of History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, April 2012
• 'Europe and the Collapse of Yugoslavia: Existing and Potential Arguments'
  Lecture given at the Department of German and Russian and the Department of History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, April 2012
• Discussant for panel 'Eastern Europe'
  Annual Research Conference on the EU, the EU Center of California, Claremont, CA, April 2012

'Islam as a Challenge to European Tolerance?'
Paper presented at the First International Conference on Human Rights and Cultures: Cultures in Support of Humanity, Non-Aligned Movement Centre for Human Rights & Cultural Diversity, Tehran, Iran, November 2011 

'Muslim Diaspora and European Identity: The Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion'
Paper presented at the International Conference on Diaspora and Development: Prospects and Implications for Nation States, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India, September 2011

'What do the Official Documents Tell us about the EEC-SFRY Relations, 1968-1992?'
Lecture given at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Serbia, April 2011 

Chair of panel '(Dis)united in Diversity: EU Policies and Standards in the Western Balkans'
The Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA, April 2011 

'Growing Concerns about Islam in the European Union'
Paper presented at the Annual Conference on the European Union: Taking the EU into the 21^st Century – History, Challenges and Debates, EU Center of Excellence, University of Pittsburg, PA, USA, April 2011 

Discussant for panel 'Integration and Identity in the EU'
Annual Research Conference on the EU, the EU Center of California, Claremont, CA, USA, April 2011  

'Islam in Western Europe'
Lecture given at the Department of Islamic Thought and Civilization, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, March 2011

'Islam in the European Union: Key Issues and Debates'
Paper presented at the International Conference on Islamic Civilization: Potentials and Challenges, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, March 2011 

'Questionable Adaptation: Young Muslims and European Identity'
Paper presented at the Youth (Sub)cultures in Changing Societies Conference, Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University, Estonia, February 2011