| CITSEE is looking to recruit three research fellows for one year posts. Candidates, with an interest in citizenship in South Eastern Europe should have expertise in one or more of the following areas: Read more... |
| On 14 November, Igor Stiks attended the presentation and launch of a special issue of the journal Transitions entitled From Peace to Shared Political Identities: Exploring Pathways in Contemporary Bosnia. Read more... |
| The 16th Annual Association for the Study of the Nationalities (ASN) World Convention ‘Charting the Nation between State and Society’ took place at Columbia University in New York City between 14-16 April, gathering a large number of researchers working on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, and China. Read more... |
| The CITSEE team is pleased to announce the publication of three new papers in its Working Paper Series on citizenship regimes in the former Yugoslav states. Read more... |
| On February 18th 2011, the CITSEE team, including researchers based at the University of Edinburgh (Prof Jo Shaw, Dr Igor Stiks, Dr Jelena Dzankic, Jelena Vasiljevic and Gezim Krasniqi) as well as associated researches based elsewhere (Ljubica Spaskovska from the University of Exeter, Tomaz Dezelan from the University of Ljubljana, Viktor Koska from the University of Zagreb, and, via skype link, Eldar Sarajlic from the Central European University), gathered in Edinburgh for a one full day of discussions. Read more... |
|  CITSEE team members Jo Shaw, Igor Stiks, Jelena Dzankic, Jelena Vasiljevic and Gezim Krasniqi presented some early results of the CITSEE project to a variety of audiences in London in early February 2011. These presentations allowed us to build on existing links and collaborations with colleagues in London, and to inform wider academic audiences about the CITSEE research. As the country case study phase of CITSEE is now complete and is being prepared for wider dissemination through a special issue of Citizenship Studies due in early 2012, this was a useful moment at which to solicit feedback on the first phase of CITSEE's work. Read more... |
| CITSEE is recruiting for 2011Jo Shaw 09 December 2010 09:46 CITSEE has advertised three one year Research Fellowships starting September/October 2011. Details of the advertisements can be found here, and prospective applicants are strongly encouraged to read the further guidance for applicants which can be accessed here before making an application. The advertisement and further particulars give details of the materials which applicants should submit with their application. Longlisted candidates will additionally be asked to prepare four page research proposals and provide writing samples in English. Read more... |
| In October 2010, CITSEE researchers Jo Shaw and Igor Stiks presented the CITSEE research at a number of institutions in South Eastern Europe, while travelling around the region making contacts and developing CITSEE’s academic network. Read more... |
| New CITSEE Working Paper AvailableGezim Krasniqi 12 October 2010 17:16 The CITSEE team is pleased to announce the publication of the fourteenth paper in its Working Paper Series on citizenship regimes in the former Yugoslav states. Read more... |
| On 7 October 2010, the CITSEE team published its 13th working paper, an analysis of the Albanian citizenship regime, by Gezim Krasniqi. Read more... |
| Professor Andrew Wachtel, recently appointed President of the American University of Central Asia, on leave from his professorial post at Northwestern University in Chicago, delivered a well received keynote lecture at CITSEE's June 2010 conference on Theories and Practices of Citizenship in the New Balkan States. His lecture has now been published as a CITSEE Working Paper under the title 'Citizenship and Belonging: Literary Themes and Variations from Yugoslavia'. Read more... |
| New CITSEE Working Paper AvailableJelena Dzankic 11 August 2010 11:18 The CITSEE team is pleased to announce the publication of the eleventh paper in its Working Paper Series on citizenship regimes in the former Yugoslav states. Read more... |
| New CITSEE Working Paper AvailableJelena Vasiljevic 28 July 2010 16:53 The CITSEE team is proud to announce that yet another working paper on citizenship regimes in the former Yugoslav states is now available. Read more... |
| On 22 July 2010, in a much-anticipated opinion, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), found that Kosovo’s declaration of independence did not violate general international law. Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia on 17 February 2008 and up to July 2010 it had been recognised by 69 states. Serbia, which strongly opposes Kosovo’s independence, sponsored a draft-resolution at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) to request an advisory opinion from the ICJ on the legality of Kosovo’s declaration of independence. The question on which the advisory opinion of the Court was requested was put forth in Resolution 63/3 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 8 October 2008. The Court was requested to render an advisory opinion on the following question: ‘Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?’ Read more... |
| The ruling in the case of Kuric and others v. Slovenia (application no. 26828/06), of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has concluded that the "Erasure" from the Slovenian Register of Permanent Residents of eight out of the eleven applicants constituted a violation of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), which protects private and family life. In the ruling delivered on 13 July 2010, the ECtHR also found Slovenia in breach of Article 13 of the ECHR, due to the failure of the state authorities to provide the applicants with an effective remedy before a domestic authority. Read more... |
| New CITSEE Working Paper AvailableJelena Vasiljevic 19 July 2010 16:23 The CITSEE team is pleased to announce the publication of a further working paper in its series dealing with the citizenship regimes in the former Yugoslav states. Read more... |
| The CITSEE Conference on Theories and Practice of Citizenship in the New Balkan States held on 24 and 25 June 2010 was also the occasion for the first meeting of the CITSEE Advisory Board. Read more... |
| The CITSEE team proudly announces the 8th issue of our working paper series launched to display the early results of our research on the citizenship regimes in the post-Yugoslav states. Following the case studies of the citizenship policies in today’s Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Working Papers 3-6), Working Paper 8 covers the case of Serbia, thus providing a clearer view of the citizenship landscape in the Yugoslav successor states. Read more... |
| Montenegro Citizenship updatesJelena Dzankic 09 June 2010 15:47 On 28 April 2010, Montenegro ratified the Council of Europe’s Convention on the avoidance of statelessness in relation to State succession, signed on 11 May 2007. The ratification comes into effect on 1 August 2010. Read more... |
| Nenad Rava, a CITSEE associate researcher working on the Serbian case, recently contributed to the debate on the EUDO Citizenship website about the new controversial Hungarian citizenship law giving access to citizenship to non-resident Hungarian 'co-ethnics' (see here also for background analysis). Read more... |
| On June 2nd 2010, the Spanish Presidency of the European Union is hosting in Sarajevo a high-level summit dedicated to the relationship between European Union and the Western Balkans. The summit is supposed to underline the European Union’s commitment to the ‘European future’ of the Western Balkans. The summit is taking place ten years after the Zagreb summit and seven years after the Thessaloniki summit where the European integration of this part of Southeast Europe was clearly described as the shared goal of both the EU and the countries of the region. In preparations for the Sarajevo summit, the European Union, Institute for Security Studies from Paris and a Sarajevo-based Foreign Policy Initiative BH organised a two-day conference “The Western Balkans: the path to European integration”. Read more... |
| From April until July 2010, CITSEE is collaborating with a visiting intern from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, Katja Swider. Read more... |
| On the 27th and 28th May 2010, CITSEE team members Jo Shaw and Igor Stiks, and CITSEE Associate Researcher Eldar Sarajlic, will participate at the workshop entitled ‘Bosnia: looking beyond the institutions’. The workshop is organised by the Institute of European and International Policy at the University of Leuven, in cooperation with ULB. The 2010 workshop is a follow up to a Conference in Geneva in June 2009 on Political Identities and Identity Politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina at which Jo Shaw, Igor Stiks and Eldar Sarajlic also presented papers. Read more... |
| The 2010 World Convention of the Association for the Study of the Nationalities took place at Columbia University in New York City from 15-18 April, gathering the largest number of researchers in the fields of Balkan, Eastern-European, Russian and Euro-Asian studies. Read more... |
| On 19-21 March 2010, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (Munich), supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, organised an international workshop on “Kosovo in the 20th century: exploring prospects for future international scientific cooperation”, which was held at the European Academy in Berlin. The workshop brought together historians and political scientists from Kosovo, Serbia, the EU and the U.S. Against a background of divergent interpretations, this meeting was aimed at taking stock of some of the principal controversies that surround Kosovo´s recent history, map varying perspectives, identify priority issues for research and explore ways to enhance future collaboration within the scholarly community. The ultimate objective, however, is to establish a sustainable research network among European academics and younger researchers in this field.
The first part of the workshop consisted of two plenary sessions: 1. Historical perspectives and 2. Political and legal debates, where discussions on the main research areas, state of the art, and desiderata with regard to Kosovo in the 20th century were briefly introduced by respective panels, followed by a general debate. Most of the debates were centred on Serb-Albanian relations and on Kosovo’s political and legal status. In the second part of the workshop, two disciplinary working groups reviewed and discussed concrete project proposals. Read more... |
| This paper begins by examining the relationship between citizenship of the European Union and national citizenship, and in particular the significance of EU law for the regulation of the acquisition and loss of citizenship in EU Member States, as part of a wider enquiry into how the citizenship regimes of the seven 'successor states' of the former Yugoslavia can be located within a 'constitutional mosaic' of overlapping and sometimes competing legal norms. This is a region which has been profoundly affected not only by the operation of EU law, as each of the states prepares (or has prepared, in the case of Slovenia) for the challenges of accession to the EU, but also by multiple sources of ‘beyond-the-state’ law. The former Yugoslavia represents a classic scenario of fragmentation, disintegration and partial reintegration under the shadow of international and European (Union) law, with the result that we can see clearly the mosaic-like character of the broader constitutional framework which is evolving for these seven states. Read more... |
| On Tuesday 2 March 2010, the Court of Justice gave a potentially groundbreaking judgment on the scope and effects of EU Citizenship. Read more... |
| After first nine months, the CITSEE researchers have produced six working papers dealing with citizenship regimes and policies in the former Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav states. They are all available for download on the CITSEE website. Read on for short descriptions of each of the papers. Read more... |
| First CITSEE workshop organisedGezim Krasniqi 16 February 2010 13:07 On 20 January 2010 CITSEE (the Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia) organised a workshop with its research fellows and associate researchers. The aim of this workshop was to present the early results of our collective research on the citizenship regimes of the new states of South Eastern Europe. Read more... |
| To coincide with the second plenary conference of our sister project EUDO-Citizenship being held in Edinburgh on 21-22 January 2010, CITSEE has launched the first of its working papers. Read more... |
| On 22 December 2009, the European Court of Human Rights decided in favour of applications brought by members of the Roma and the Jewish communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, alleging racial and ethnic discrimination. Read more... |
| On December 14 and 15 2009, CITSEE Research Fellow Dr. Igor Štiks will be speaking at an important international conference in Belgrade, Serbia, to mark twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, as seen from the perspective of the former Yugoslavia, and presenting not only his academic work on citizenship in the former Yugoslavia, but also reading from his novel "Elijah's Chair" at a public literary event. Read more... |
| Although to native English speakers there is no significant difference between citizenship and nationality in everyday use, their interchangeability is not that obvious and often creates confusion. The confusion is even bigger in the majority of other European languages and frequent literal translations of the two terms, if provided without historic contextualization, are likely to cause serious misunderstandings. Read more... |
| CITSEE is recruiting!Jo Shaw 11 November 2009 08:50 CITSEE is seeking a Research Fellow to work on citizenship laws and policies in Serbia. Read more... |
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| The CITSEE team is delighted to announce the publication of a paper on Croatian citizenship co-authored by Francesco Ragazzi (Sciences Po-Paris/Northwestern University) and our own Igor Štiks (CITSEE research fellow) under the title: “Croatian Citizenship: From Ethnic Engineering to Inclusiveness”. Read more... |
| CITSEE works closely with EUDO-Citizenship, a recently launched Citizenship Observatory, supported by the EUCITAC project (Access to Citizenship in Europe) and largely funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third Country Nationals. Read more... |
| The "Yugo-sphere"Ljubica Spaskovska 28 September 2009 11:36 Recently, The Economist published an article introducing the idea of the “Yugo-Sphere”, which has been attributed to Tim Judah. Its argument that the “former Yugoslavia patches itself together” echoed across the ex-Yugoslav media. The supra-ethnic trans-Balkan cultural inclination which the article refers to, among other things, slowly turns on one hand into a more conscious realization about the unsustainability of the parochial-cum-tribal self-isolation from the 1990s when new borders were built where none had existed before; and into a more emotional, culturally-framed awareness related to the vibrant inter-connected cultural life in this region. Read more...Comments (1) |
| The European Parliament gathered last week to discuss (the new regulations on visas for Western Balkan countries put forward by the European Commission (EC) in July 2009. This proposal foresees abolition of visa regime for three Western Balkan Countries – the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia but not for Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina and Kosovo. According to the EC, Macedonia has already fulfilled all the criteria needed to enter the ‘white Schengen list’ of countries, whereas Montenegro and Serbia will have time until late autumn to ‘do their homework’ and catch up with Macedonia. If they do so, their citizens, together with those of Macedonia, will be able to travel freely within EU from 1 January 2010. Read more...Comments (0) |
| Welcome to the CITSEE Blog!Jo Shaw 17 September 2009 15:45 Congratulations! You've found your way to the CITSEE Blog. Read more...Comments (0) |
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