Professional Affiliation

Junior Research Fellow, European Studies Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford

Expert Bio

Adis Merdzanovic is a political scientist who has just finished his PhD thesis dedicated to "Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina" at the Departments for Political Science and Philosophy of the University of Zurich (UZH), Switzerland. His research focuses on constitutional order in divided post-conflict societies using the perspective of political theory, in particular the theory of consociational democracy. At UZH, he was also co-teaching a course on the European Union’s accession and neighborhood policy.

Wilson Center Project

"Normative Constraints in US and EU Intervention Policies. The Example of Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina"

Project Summary

Taking the example of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, this project looks at motives international actors have when intervening in allegedly democratic and sovereign post-conflict states. Apart from practical considerations constraining such involvement, the project seeks to determine normative constraints that limit the scope of respective action by the two most important actors in this particular context: the United States and the European Union.