Profile

Room: Rutherford E1.N1
Tel: 01227 (82)7584
F.Bieber@kent.ac.uk
Office Hours: Mondays 4:15-5:15 and Tuesdays 10-11 Personal website

Dr Bieber joined the School in 2006. Prior to moving to Kent, he worked for five years in Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the European Centre for Minority Issues and held teaching appointments at the Central European University, at the University of Sarajevo and at the 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 the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania.

Languages: French [fluent], German [native], Serbian/Croatian [fluent]

Research Interests

• Contemporary Politics in Southeastern Europe
• The Dissolution of Yugoslavia
• Institutional Design in Multiethnic States
• Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
• Conflict Managment
• Democratization in the Post-Communist World

Current Projects

• ‘From Peace Building to State Building: an Assessment of EU and NATO Conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina'. Funded by a British Academy Large Grant of £79,966
• Institutional Change in Post-Conflict Societies: a Comparative Study of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia
• Nation- and State-Building in Montenegro

Selected Publications

Teaching

Undergraduate

• PO628 Conflict Resolution in the Balkans 

Postgraduate

• To follow

Research Supervision

Elisabeth Bergquist
MPhil in International Relations
Statehood and Democracy in Divided Societies

Sören Keil
MPhil in International Relations
Multinational Federalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Anthony Muir-Brockett  
PhD in International Relations
Police Training in Post-Conflict Zones: the Case of Kosovo

Vanessa Tinker
MPhil in International Relations
TBA