Josip Glaurdic

Fields: International Relations, Comparative Politics & European Union

Josip Glaurdic is a PhD candidate in political science (degree expected in May 2008) whose work is situated on the intersection of international relations and comparative politics, and concentrates particularly on the involvement of the European Union and the United States in the Balkans. His research has been supported by Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, its European Union Studies Program, Fox International Fellowship, Open Society Institute, and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Between January and June of 2008, Josip will be a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna.

Josip's dissertation “United in Failure: The Founding of New Europe and the Dissolution of Yugoslavia” evaluates the process of creation of the new European political and security identity by looking through the prism of Europe’s involvement in the former-Yugoslav crisis. Using extensive sources he has collected in archives throughout Europe and the United States and in personal interviews with former diplomats and policy makers, Josip constructs not only the most comprehensive account of EU and US involvement in the Balkans during the late 1980s and early 1990s, but also a theoretically informed set of explanations of Western (in)actions with clear policy implications for the region and for the future of the EU’s internal cohesion in foreign and security policy.

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Email: josip.glaurdic@yale.edu

Personal Web Page: http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jg366