Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, Austria. He is the coordinator of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group. He has worked at the European Centre for Minority Issues and taught at Kent University (UK). He is, or has been, a visiting professor at CEU, Cornell University, and the University of Bologna, and in Sarajevo and Belgrade, and a fellow at LSE and NYU.