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Dr Jelena Obradovic – Wochnik

Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Email: j.obradovic-wochnik@aston.ac.uk

Jelena joined Aston University in 2009 as a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. She has previously taught at the University of Birmingham and University of Helsinki. Before joining Aston, Jelena held visiting fellowships at the Aleksanteri Institute (University of Helsinki) and the European Institute for Security Studies, Paris.

Specialisms

Jelena specialises in the 1992-1995 civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, as well as war crimes and post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

She is also interested in the impact of Kosovo independence and EU integration of the Western Balkans. Most recently she has carried out research into EU conditionality and war crimes cooperation in Western Balkans.

Teaching

Security Studies in a Changing World (LP2021)
Conflict and Politics in Contemporary Balkans (LP3025)

Qualifications

PhD in Russian and East European Studies (Birmingham)
Master of Arts in Globalisation and Technology (Nottingham Trent)
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Cultural Studies (Nottingham Trent)

Publications

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

Obradovic - Wochnik, Jelena. (2009, forthcoming) Ethnic conflict and war crimes in the Balkans: the narratives of denial in post-conflict Serbia, I.B. Tauris: London

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

Obradovic, Jelena. (2009) Knowledge and Acknowledgement in Serbia’s response to Srebrenica, Journal of Contemporary European Studies - special issue ‘Memories of Conflict in Eastern Europe’

Obradovic, Jelena. (2008) Kosovo: the view from Serbia, EUISS, Paris

Obradovic, Jelena. (2007) Ratko Mladic or Europe: War Crimes, Identity and the Serbian Politics of Myth, ed. Kangaspuro, M. Constructing New Identities, University of Helsinki.