Dr Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik

Jelena joined Aston University in 2009 as a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. Before joining Aston, Jelena held visiting fellowships at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and the European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris. Between October and December 2012, Jelena was a visiting fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard.

Specialisms

Western Balkans, war crimes, transitional justice, Serbia and Kosovo.

Qualifications

PhD in Russian and East European Studies , University of Birmingham

Publications

Monograph

Obradovic - Wochnik, Jelena. (2013) Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans: the Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia IB Tauris, London

Journal Articles

Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2013) '"Silent dilemma" of transitional justice: silencing and confronting the past in Serbia' International Journal of Transitional Justice  doi: 10.1093/ijtj/ijt011

Obradovic-Wochnik, J. and Wochnik, A. (2012) ʻEuropeanising the Kosovo Question: Serbiaʼs Policies in the Context of EU integration' West European Politics 53 (5), pp. 1158-1181
 
Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2009) ʻKnowledge and Acknowledgement in Serbiaʼs response to Srebrenicaʼ
Journal of Contemporary European Studies 17 (1)

Edited Volume

Obradovic - Wochnik, Jelena and Batt, Judy (2009) War Crimes, conditionality and EU Integration of the Western Balkans, Chaillot Paper No. 116, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris

Book Chapters

Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2013) ʻSerbian Civil Society as an Exclusionary Space: NGOs, the Public and “Coming to terms with the Past”ʼ in Kostovicova, D.. Ker-Lindsay, J. and Bojcic-Dzelilovic, eds. Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans Palgrave McMillan

Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2009) ʻStrategies of Denial: Resistance to ICTY Cooperation in Serbiaʼ in Obradovic-Wochnik, J. and Batt, J. eds. War Crimes and EU Integration in the Western Balkans EUISS, Paris, pp. 29-45

Comment and Current Affairs Publications

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2012) Racist football culture in Serbia: Establishment Fails to Act, Guardian Comment is Free

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2011) Serbs do Welcome the Arrest of Mladic, Guardian Comment is Free, 27 May 2011

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2011) Addressing Injustice The World Today, June 2011, Chatham House

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2011) Kosovo: A Way To Go The World Today, Vol 67 No 3, Chatham House

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2010) "Serbia’s Srebrenica Declaration: a Small Step, but in the Right Direction " ISS Opinion, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

Obradovic-Wochnik, Jelena (2010) Serbia, EU and the Kosovo Issue Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed), Barcelona. 

Obradovic, Jelena. (2009) Kosovo: One Year On EUISS, Paris 

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Conflict and Politics in Contemporary Balkans (LP3025)

• Security Studies (LP2021)

• Conflict, Intervention and Reconciliation (LP3028)

• Security and Defence in Europe (LPM022)

• International Security (LPM034)