Davor Pauković - Croatia and the European Union: Changes and Development

CROATIA AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

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Changes and Development

PERO MALDINI and DAVOR PAUKOVI

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge

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Croatia and the European Union : changes and development / [edited by] by Pero Maldini and Davor Paukovic.

pages cm. -- (Southeast European studies)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3185-1 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-3155-7512-4 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-3171-5696-3 (epub) 1. European Union--Croatia. 2. Democratization--Croatia. 3. Croatia--Politics and government--1990- I. Maldini, Pero, editor.

HC240.25.C87C86 2015

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ISBN 9781472431851 (hbk)

ISBN 9781315575124 (ebk-PDF)

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Nataa Beirevi, PhD, graduated at the Faculty of Political Science University of Zagreb. As a chevening scholar of the UK government she obtained an MA degree at the University of Sussex in Contemporary European Studies in 2004. She finished PhD studies on the EU at the Faculty of Political Science and defended the PhD thesis in 2012 on EUWestern Balkans relations. As a post-doctorate scholar of the US government she obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley, in the Department of Political Science, EU Centre of Excellence. From 2002 until 2007 she worked at the Ministry of European Integration/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, finished diplomatic studies and since 2007 has worked as a research assistant/assistant professor on several EU-related courses. She has published several scientific papers on the EU, the Western Balkans, European Community enlargement, Europeanization, democratization, and nationalism. Beirevi is Sussex University alumni consul and consultant on the EU projects in the Western Balkans.

Neboja Blanua, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Political Psychology at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, head of the scientific project Public, Elites, Media and Communication Strategy of Croatian Accession to the European Union, and collaborator at the international scientific projects of European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action ISO806: The True European Voter and FP7 project Social Performance, Cultural Trauma and Reestablishing Solid Sovereignties (SPECTRESS). His main research interests concern political psychoanalysis, nationalism, conspiratorial thinking, cultural trauma, political cynicism, political behavior, historical and political cleavages, Euroskepticism, social science research methods, etc. He is author of the book Conspiracy Theories and Croatian Political Reality 19802007 (Plejada, 2011, in Croatian), and a member of several domestic and international journal editorial boards. He teaches courses in social and political psychology, politics and art in south-east Europe, and the political unconscious.

Ivan Landripet, PhD, is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. His main research interests are divided between the sociology of European integrations, particularly popular Euroskepticism, and the sociology of sexuality. Alongside 12 nationally-funded research projects, he has collaborated on a Framework Programme 6 project focused on social and cultural underpinnings of corruption in south-east Europe and a PHARE program project on Euroskepticism in Croatia. His thesis, as well as a monograph that he edited and co-authored, examined popular support for European integration in Croatia. He is editor in chief of Sociological Review, the official journal of the Croatian Sociological Association.

Pero Maldini, PhD, is Associate Professor at Department of Mass Communication at the University of Dubrovnik (former Head of Department), current Head of Interdisciplinary Doctoral Study of Communication Science at the University of Osijek, and Head of Department for Intercultural Communication at Edward Bernays College of Communication Management in Zagreb. He teaches several courses in political science at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies at the three universities. His research interests are comparative politics, democratization, democratic transition, political culture, and Croatian politics. He has published two books and one edited volume, and a number of papers and book chapters in the field of comparative politics, democratic theory, political culture, media and politics, political education, and presented his works at more than 20 international conferences. He has received several international grants for research training abroad in the USA, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Slovakia. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Croatian Political Science Association and a member of three journal editorial boards.