Dejan Guzina
My research intersects comparative democratization, ethnic conflict management, and external state and nation building in post-conflict states. It is mainly concerned with the evaluation of political institutions in divided political systems. I am particularly interested in power-sharing institutions, federalism, and citizenship and minority rights in the context of the Western Balkans.
I am currently researching the role of the European Union as the global conflict manager. As a recipient of CIGI (the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, ON) Collaborative Research Award, I’m engaged in a two-year project on the EU’s accession policies and state building in the Western Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia). The specific focus of the project is on the region’s central challenges to European integration in the context of security sector reforms. The project focuses primarily on these specific policy challenges due to their omnipresence across the region and because the European Union is directly involved in supporting reforms on these issues. Further, states across the region vary in their abilities to find more permanent institutional and policy solutions to these challenges.
Phone: 519 884 0710 (2225)
Address: Dejan Guzina, PhD
Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Department of Political Science
75 University Ave., W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
I am currently researching the role of the European Union as the global conflict manager. As a recipient of CIGI (the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, ON) Collaborative Research Award, I’m engaged in a two-year project on the EU’s accession policies and state building in the Western Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia). The specific focus of the project is on the region’s central challenges to European integration in the context of security sector reforms. The project focuses primarily on these specific policy challenges due to their omnipresence across the region and because the European Union is directly involved in supporting reforms on these issues. Further, states across the region vary in their abilities to find more permanent institutional and policy solutions to these challenges.
Phone: 519 884 0710 (2225)
Address: Dejan Guzina, PhD
Associate Professor
Wilfrid Laurier University
Department of Political Science
75 University Ave., W.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5
Canada
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https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WFQ9GJPYWZX8SZ6AC9KY/full?target=10.1080/14650045.2022.2078706
Serbia’s foreign policy choices reflect a profound identity crisis. While Serbia denies the independence of Kosovo, it simultaneously pursues membership in the European Union. My approach to understanding these tensions offers an alternative to the mainstream, liberal perspective whereby Serbian foreign policy claims are reduced to purely ideological explanations, thereby, ignoring the complex interplay between social identity crisis and political processes. I evaluate this seemingly contradictory nature of Serbian foreign policy choices from a constructivist and critical geopolitical perspective by bringing to the fore the body of international relations (IR) literature on ontological security and Stefano Guzzini’s conceptualisation of the return of geopolitics in Europe. This allows for a more nuanced analysis that recognises no government would be able to establish a coherent policy unless the underlying identity crisis and foreign policy anxieties are at least mediated.
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WFQ9GJPYWZX8SZ6AC9KY/full?target=10.1080/14650045.2022.2078706
Serbia’s foreign policy choices reflect a profound identity crisis. While Serbia denies the independence of Kosovo, it simultaneously pursues membership in the European Union. My approach to understanding these tensions offers an alternative to the mainstream, liberal perspective whereby Serbian foreign policy claims are reduced to purely ideological explanations, thereby, ignoring the complex interplay between social identity crisis and political processes. I evaluate this seemingly contradictory nature of Serbian foreign policy choices from a constructivist and critical geopolitical perspective by bringing to the fore the body of international relations (IR) literature on ontological security and Stefano Guzzini’s conceptualisation of the return of geopolitics in Europe. This allows for a more nuanced analysis that recognises no government would be able to establish a coherent policy unless the underlying identity crisis and foreign policy anxieties are at least mediated.