Florian Bieber is a Lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent. He received his MA in Political Science and History and his PhD in Political Science from the University of Vienna, as well as an MA in Southeast European Studies from Central European University (Budapest). Prior to moving to the University of Kent, he worked for five years in Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the European Centre for Minority Issues and teaching as Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University the Regional Masters Program for Democracy and Human Rights at the University of Sarajevo and the Interdisciplinary Master in East European Studies, University of Bologna. He has been an International Policy Fellow of the Open Society Institute and conducted post-doctoral research with the Solomon Asch Centre for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania. He has published articles on institutional design, nationalism and politics in South-eastern Europe in Nationalities Papers, Third World Quarterly, Current History, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, International Peacekeeping, Ethnopolitcs and other journals. He is the author of Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic (MŸnster: Lit Verlag, 2005, in German) and Post-War Bosnia : Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector (London : Palgrave, 2005) and edited and co-edited four books on South-eastern Europe. Florian Bieber's profile can be accessed here.