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Dr Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik


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

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

Qualifications

Membership

  • Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House)
  • British International Studies Association (BISA)
  • American Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (ASEES)
  • Atlantik-Brücke e.V

Publications

Monograph

Obradovic - Wochnik, Jelena. (2010, forthcoming) Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes in the Balkans: the Narratives of Denial in Post-Conflict Serbia IB Tauris, London

Articles

Obradovic-Wochnik, J. and Wochnik, A. (forthcoming, accepted for publication) ʻEuropeanising the Kosovo Question: Serbiaʼs Policies in the Context of EU integrationʻ West European Politics
 
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. (fortchoming) 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 Transition 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 (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 

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

 

Teaching


Undergraduate

  • Conflict and Politics in Contemporary Balkans (LP3025)

  • Security Studies (LP2021)

  • Conflict, Intervention and Reconciliation (LP3028)

Postgraduate
  • Security and Defence in Europe (LPM022)

  • International Security (LPM034)