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Dr. Arolda Elbasani

Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)

Rule of Law Center

Civil Society, Conflicts, and Democracy

Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin

Tel.: + 49 (0)30 25491 - 537
Fax: + 49 (0)30 25491 - 342

E-Mail: arolda.elbasani@eui.eu

Homepage: http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/rol/people/elbasani.en.htm

Short CV

Arolda Elbasani received her PhD at the European University Institute, Florence in 2007. She also holds an M.A. in International Relations from Central European University, Budapest; and an MA in Political Science from University of Bilkent, Ankara. In 2007-2008 she has worked as a research assistant at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence and as lecturer at Richmond University in Florence. She has also taught at the University of Bologna, University of Prishtina and New York University, Tirana. Arolda’s current research focuses on the relation between EU enlargement and public administration reform in the post-communist space. Her broad research interests lie at the intersection of theories of institutional change, EU enlargement, comparative democratisation, Southeast European politics and the more specific areas of public administration and electoral competition. She has published in the Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans; CEU Political Science Journal and South East European Politics. Since 2005, she is co-editor of the peer-reviewed Albanian Journal of Politics and collaborates with different journals as a foreign reviewer. At present, she is working at the WZB civil society, conflicts and democracy unit.

From October 2008 she has been a Postdoc Fellow.

Detailed CV

Main fields of interest

EU enlargement
Comparative democratisation
Theories of institutional change
Public administration

KFG Research Project

In the Research College “The Transformative Power of Europe”, Arolda Elbasani focused on a project on EU enlargement and institutional reforms in Southeast Europe.

Publications

Edited Volumes

2011, EU Enlargement and Europeanization in the Western Balkans, London, New York. Routledge, forthcoming.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2010 'Europeanization in the Western Balkans: EU Incentives and Domestic Constraints', Transitions 50 (1), 13-29.

2010, 'Albania: Vulnerable or Immune to Potential Risks from the Greek Crisis. Dossier on the Perceptions and Repercussions of the Greek Crisis in South East Europe', co-authored with Seimir Elbasani, Südosteuropa 58 (4): 568-576.

2010, 'Politics and the Moderating Role of Public Debates in the Pursuit of Transitional Justice after Communism', Central European Political Science Review 11 (42): 28-58. (co-authored with Artur Lipinski) Translated in Hungarian: ‘A politika és a közéleti vita szerepe a rendszerváltozásban.’ In Simon János (ed.) Húsz Éve Szabadon Közép-Európában. Kiadó: Konrad Adenauer Alapítvány, (forthcoming)

2009, 'Enlargement Instruments and Domestic Constraints: Public Administration Reform in Post-Communist Albania', Südosteuropa 57 (1): 70-90.

2008, ‘EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans: Strategies of Borrowing and Inventing,’ Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 10 (3): 293-307.

2008, ‘Mixed Member Proportional Systems and Post-Communist Contexts: How Has the System Worked in Albania?’ CEU Political Science Journal 3 (1): 72-92.

2004, ‘Democratisation Processes in Albania: Appropriation or Manipulation of International Norms?’ Southeast European Politics, 5 (1): 24-44.

Translated Article ‘Albanie: Les ratés de la transition et le futur européen,’ Courrier de la Planète 85, Special issue on Balkans un avenir européen (January-March 2008): 42-45; http://www.courrierdelaplanete.org/85/article3.php.

Book Chapters

2011, Europeanization Goes Western Balkans: EU Enlargement, Domestic Challenges and Patterns of Institutional Change. In Arolda Elbasani (ed.), EU Enlargement and Europeanization in the Western Balkans, London, New York. Routledge, forthcoming.

2011, EU Administrative Conditionality and Domestic Compliance: Weak States in the Balkans. In Arolda Elbasani (ed.), EU Enlargement and Europeanization in the Western Balkan, London, New York: Routledge, (forthcoming).

2008, ‘EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans: Extensive Conditionality Combined With Weak Incentives?’ In Jasien Leszek (ed.), EU Policies in the Making, (Krakow: Tischner European University).

Other publications and working papers

2011, 'Public Contestation and Politics of Transitional Justice: Poland and Albania Compared', EUI Working Paper 2011/02, January 2011, European University Institute Florence (co-authored with Artur Lipinski) available at http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/15805/SPS_2011_02.pdf?sequence=1

2009, 'EU Administrative Conditionality and Domestic Downloading: The Limits of Europeanization in Challenging Contexts', KFG Working Paper (4), September 2009, Freie Universität Berlin.

2009, ‘Political transformation and Implementation of EU Democratic Requirements in Albania,’ in Integration Perspectives and Synergic Effects of European Transformation in the Countries Targeted by EU Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policies, Centre for EU Enlargement Studies Budapest; available at: http://web.ceu.hu/cens/assets/files/publications/Albania_Political.

2008, ‘EU Enlargement and State Institutions after Communism –Reforming Public Administration,’L'Europe en Formation 2008/3-4, no 349,Special issue on The Western Balkans Between Europeanization and Nation-Building, forthcoming.

2008, ‘The Stabilisation and Association Process in the Balkans: Overloaded Agenda and Weak Incentives?’ EUI Working Paper 2008/3, Florence: European University Institute; http://cadmus.eui.eu/dspace/bitstream/1814/8447/1/SPS_2008_03.PDF.

2006, ‘Migration, Return and Readmission Agreements,’ Return and Readmission: The Case of Albania, (Tirana: IOM), With Sonila Danaj and Teuta Grazhdani.

Edited Peer-Reviewed Journals

2008, Albanian Journal of Politics III,Chapel Hill: Globic Press, (with Altin Ilirjani and Ridvan Peshkopia).

2006, Albanian Journal of Politics II,Chapel Hill: Globic Press, (with Altin Ilirjani and Ridvan Peshkopia).

2005, Albanian Journal of Politics I, Chapel Hill: Globic Press, (with Altin Ilirjani and Ridvan Peshkopia).

Book Reviews

2009, ‘Aspects of the Orange Revolution III: The Context and Dynamics of the 2004 Ukrainian Presidential Elections’, edited by Igmar Bredies, Andreas Unland and Valentin Yakushik (Shtuttgart: Verlag 2007), in Europe-Asia Studies 61 (9): 1665-1667.

2009, ‘Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and Inverted Totalitariansm’, by Wolin, Sheldon S (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2008), in European Political Science (8): 412-415.

2009, 'Review: European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in South Eastern Europe', Lantscher, Emma/ Marko, Joseph/Petricusic, Antonija (eds.), Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2008, in Südosteuropa 57 (2/3): 329-332.

2005, ‘Albania and the European Union: European integration and the Prospect of Accession’, by B. Mirela and J. Loughlin (Tirana: Dajti 2004), in Albanian Journal of Politics I (1), 87-90.

2004, ‘Redeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Successor Parties in East Central Europe after 1989’, byGrzymala-Busse, Anna M. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2002), in Southeast European Politics V (1), 96-99.

KFG Workshops

Workshop: EU Enlargement and Institutional Reforms in Southeast Europe - Part II

(10-11 July 2009)

Workshop Program: EU Enlargement and Institutional Reforms in Southeast Europe - Part I

(February 2009)

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