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Dr. phil. Dušan Reljić

Research Division:

SWP Brussels Head of Office

dusan.reljic@swp-berlin.org

Curriculum Vitae
Publications

Areas of Expertise

South-East Europe
Western Balkans
EU enlargement policy
European Union
Nato

Focus

Further topics of research: media studies, in particular media, democracy and security, media performance in situations of tensions and conflict

Short Curriculum vitae

1998-2000 Head of Department, Media and Democracy Programme; The European Institute for the Media, Düsseldorf;

1996-1998 Research Associate at the European Institute for the Media;

1993-1996 Senior Editor of Radio Free Europe South Slavic Languages Programme, Munich; later Western European Correspondent based in Bonn;

1991-1993 Foreign Editor of the News Magazine Vreme, Belgrade. Co- founder of BETA News Agency, Belgrade;

1979- 1991 Yugoslav National Press Agency Tanjug, Reporter, Editor, foreign Correspondent (Bonn 1986-1990), deputy Head of World Service 1990-1993;

SWP Publications

- Peter van der Auweraert
- Nadine Biehler
- Dušan Reljić
Migrants out in the Cold in Bosnia: Solutions for Humanitarian Crisis on EU's doorstep

Hundreds of people are living in appalling conditions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, waiting near the border to Croatia, which they see as their path into the EU. Damien McGuinness talks to Peter van der Auweraert, Nadine Biehler and Dušan Reljić about solutions to the humanitarian crisis now, and EU migration long-term.

SWP Podcast 2021/eP 02, 01.02.2021
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- Dušan Reljić
Geopolitics and loans: The EU does not want to lose the Western Balkans
- German
The European Commission promises 3.3 billion € to help the Western Balkan countries mitigate the impact of the pandemic and bring them closer to the EU. Without a fundamental change of direction, however, this initiative comes too late, says Dušan Reljić.

Point of View, 05.05.2020
- Matteo Bonomi
- Dušan Reljić
The EU and the Western Balkans: So Near and Yet So Far

Why the Region Needs Fast-Track Socio-Economic Convergence with the EU

SWP Comment 2017/C 53, 19.12.2017, 4 Pages
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- Tobias Flessenkemper
- Dušan Reljić
EU Enlargement: A Six Percent Target for the Western Balkans
- German
If the countries of the Western Balkans are to have any prospect of overcoming their crisis, they will need to double their annual growth rates. This will necessitate a fundamental rethinking of the EU’s enlargement policy, argue Tobias Flessenkemper and Dušan Reljić.

Point of View, 27.06.2017
- Dušan Reljić
Russia Gives Serbia the Choice: Satellite or Bargaining Chip
in:
- Sabine Fischer
- Margarete Klein (eds.)
Conceivable Surprises
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2016/RP 10, 04.10.2016, 78 Pages, pp. 25–29
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- Dušan Reljić
Foresight Retrospective: “One Land, One People, One Dream” – Albanians Abolish their Borders
in:
- Lars Brozus (ed.)
Unexpected, Unforeseen, Unplanned
- German
Contribution to a Research Paper 2016/RP 01, 08.01.2016, 56 Pages, pp. 50–54
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External publications

- Dušan Reljić
The EU’s quest for strategic autonomy in the Western Balkans: Why it flopped

in: In Search of EU Strategic Autonomy: What Role for the Western Balkans?, edited by Matteo Bonomi, Rome, IAI, June 2021, p. 33-39, ISBN 978-88-9368-200-8
- Dušan Reljić
"The EU should start paying far more attention to existential issues in its immediate neighbourhood."

in: Kinga Brudzinska/Shane Markowitz (ed.), The Time for EU’s Common Foreign Policy Is Now. The EU’s 2021 Foreign Policy Priorities in the Eyes of World-Class Practitioners, Experts and Policymakers. GLOBSEC Strategic Brief, 10.03.2021
- Merja Albana
- Matteo Bonomi
- Dušan Reljić
- Theresia Töglhofer
Make-or-break moment: EU enlargement in southeast Europe in pandemic times

FES Analysis, 10/2020, Tirana, 27 Pages
- Matteo Bonomi
- Ardian Hackaj
- Dušan Reljić
Avoiding the Trap of Another Paper Exercise: Why the Western Balkans Need a Human Development-centred EU Enlargement Model

in: IAI Papers (20/04), 31.01.2020, Rome, 13 Pages

doi:978-88-9368-124-7
- Dušan Reljić
What does it take for the EU to punch above its weight?

Since the start of the financial and economic crises in 2008/2009, the EU project has lost a considerable part of its standing. A recent forum has raised ideas for reversing the decline of the EU’s ranking in the global arena. Dušan Reljić explains how.

in: EurActive, 07.10.2019, (online)
- Dušan Reljić
Crimes, Prosperity, and Institutions

The enduring negative cycle

in: Balkan Perspectives: Adapting the Partnership and Integration Paths, NATO Foundation Defense College, August 2019, page 39-42

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Areas of Expertise

Short Curriculum vitae

Russia Gives Serbia the Choice: Satellite or Bargaining Chip

Foresight Retrospective: “One Land, One People, One Dream” – Albanians Abolish their Borders