Dane Taleski 31 Car Samoil, 7500 Prilep, Macedonia www.danetaleski.com +38978852690 danetaleski@yahoo.com Education 09/2008 11/2014 PhD in Political Science (magna cum laude), Political Science Department Central European University (CEU), Budapest. 10/2004 06/2005 Master of European Studies, Center for European Integration, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat, Bonn. 10/1998 02/2004 BA in Political Science, Political Science Department, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Professional Experience 06/2015 12/2015 Consultant, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, The Hague. 04/2015 06/2015 Policy Researcher, European Fund for the Balkans, Belgrade. 03/2015 04/2015 Consultant, Freedom House Nations in Transit project, New York. 01/2015 03/2015 Country expert, Bertelsmann Foundation, Gutersloh. 10/2014 01/2015 Regional analyst, Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), Berlin. 03/2012 05/2013 Regional research coordinator, FES, Berlin. 09/2011 06/2013 Executive Director, Institute for Social Democracy Progress, Skopje. 07/2011 08/2011 Research Assistant, Central European University, Budapest. 10/2005 06/2008 AFP Returning Scholar, Political Science Department, St. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. 11/2006 08/2007 Research Assistant, University of Duisburg-Essen. Grants and fellowships 2015 Civil Society Scholar Award. Open Society Foundations, New York. 2008 2011 Full doctoral stipend at CEU. 2009 2011 Several research and travel grants at CEU. 2005 2008 Returning Scholar Fellowship. Academic Fellowship Program, Higher Education Support Program, Open Society Institute. 1
2007 2008 European Union's Tempus project. 2004 2005 Postgraduate scholarship. Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Community service 12/2010 12/2014 Member of the Advisory Board, School of Politics Mother Teresa, Center for Research and Policy Making (CRPM), Skopje. 2012 2013 Advocacy Group Member, Improving social science research in Macedonia, Regional Research Promotion Programe, Skopje. 06/2009 06/2013 Member of the Executive Board, Social Democratic Union of Macedonia. Member of: Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG). Working Group Regional Stability in South East Europe, PfP Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies Institutes. Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Transformation Thinkers (Bertelsmann Foundation and GIZ). Publications Books: Monitoring Regional Cooperation in South East Europe. Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, 2013 (coedited with Stefan Dehnert). Guidebook Preparing Successful Project Proposals to Access EU Funding Opportunities, Skopje: Eurofunds, 2009 (co-authored with Angelo Strano and Alfio Curcio). Academic articles: Regulating Party Politics in the Western Balkans: On the Legal Sources of Party System Development in Macedonia (co-authored with Fernando Casal Bértoa) in Democratization, published online: 09 Apr 2015. What constitutes the left political base in Macedonia? Testing SDSM's voter support across municipalities in local elections 2005, 2009 and 2013, New Balkan Politics, Special Issue: The crises of the social-democracy in Macedonia. No 15, 2014. Within State-Building: Studying Parties from Guerrillas in Croatia and Macedonia, In Suedosteuropa 60 (4): 536 544. December 2012. Was the EU's Role in Conflict Management in Macedonia a Success?, Ethnopolitics, 8 (3-4): 355 367 (co-author). September 2009. Chapters in books and edited volumes: Macedonia between the West and Russia: Internal implications and consequences. In A Region in Limbo: South East Europe in the Light of Strained Western-Russian Relations, Vienna: PfP 2
Consortium and Austrian National Defense Academy, 2015 (forthcoming). Building Democracies in South East Europe: Youth as an Unwilling Actor? (co-author). In Klaus Hurrelmann and Michael Weichert's (eds) Lost in Democratic Transition? Political Challenges and Perspectives for Young People in South East Europe, Berlin: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2015. pp. 15 67. Predicaments of Political Divisions in Southeast Europe: How to Escape a Destructive Polarization?. In Democratic Governance and Public Administration Reform in the Western Balkans (conference reader), Berlin: The Aspen Institute Deutschland e.v., 2015. Minority Ethnic Parties in Post-Conflict Croatia and Macedonia. In Political Parties in South East Europe: Supporting Intra-State, Regional and European Consolidation?, Vienna: PfP Consortium and Austrian National Defense Academy, 2014. Regional Ideas for Increased Cooperation between SEE Countries and External Actors In Valeska Esch et al (eds) A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe, Berlin: The Aspen Institute Deutschland e.v., 2012, pp. 175 179. Regional Security Framework in Southeast Europe: Just a Step Away?, In Valeska Esch et al (eds) A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe, Berlin: The Aspen Institute Deutschland e.v., 2012, pp. 115 119 Post-conflict legacies and the Ohrid Framework Agreement: Discursive legitimation of the political competition between Albanian parties in Macedonia, In Zidas Daskalovski et al (eds) One decade after the Ohrid Framework Agreement. Lessons (to be) learned from the Macedonian experience, Skopje: FES and CRPM, 2011. pp. 170-190. Comparing Models of Inter-ethnic Coexistence and Practices of Political Parties in the Western Balkans, In Ernst Felberbauer, Predrag Jurekovic and Frederic Labarre (eds) From Bosnia and Herzegovina to Northern Kosovo Coping with the Remaining Impasses in the Western Balkans, Vienna: PfP Consortium and Austrian National Defense Academy, 2011. pp. 17-49. Internal and External Challenges for Macedonia: Bridging the name dispute impasse for an Euro- Atlantic future, in Ernst Felberbauer, Predrag Jurekovic and Frederic Labarre's (eds) 15 Years of Peace-Building Activities in the Western Balkans Lessons Learn and Current Challenges, Vienna: PfP Consortium and Austrian National Defense Academy, 2010. Macedonia, in Daren J. Sagar's (ed) Political Parties of the World, 7 th edition, London: John Harper Publishing, 2009, pp. 368 371. Minorities and Political Parties in Macedonia, in Florian Biber's (ed) Political Parties and Minority Participation, Skopje: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2008 pp. 54 80 The Independence of Kosovo and the Consolidation of Macedonia A reason to worry? in Ernst Felberbauer, Predrag Jurekovic and Frederic Labarre's (eds) Cutting or Tightening the Gordian Knot? The Future of Kosovo and the Peace Process in the Western Balkans after the Decision on Independence, Vienna: PfP Consortium and Austrian National Defense Academy, 2008, pp. 29 59 (co-author). 3
Public Opinion and EU Integration: Influences on the policy process in Macedonia and in the EU, in Leila Simona Talani's (ed) EU and the Balkans: Policies of integration and disintegration, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2008, pp. 30 49 Political Myths and the Creation of the Attitudes about the Socio-Economical Situation and the Ethno-national Identity: If Tito was alive we would call him Alexander, in Milan Podunavac's (ed) Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Integration of Deeply Divided Societies, Belgrade: Faculty for Political Science, 2008, pp. 30 49. Minderheiten und Mehrheitbevölkerung in Makedonien: Sichtweisen und Auffasungen in Ulf Brunbauer and Christian Voss' (eds) Sudosteuropa-Jahrbuch: Inklusion and Exclusion auf dem Westbalkan, Munich: Sudosteuropa-Gesselschaft e.v., January 2008, pp. 263 280. Policy studies: Culture of Regional Cooperation in South East Europe, Policy Study, Vienna, Brussels and Belgrade: European Fund for the Balkans (forthcoming) (co-author). Youth in South East Europe. Lost in Transition, Policy Brief, Berlin: FES. July, 2015 (co-author). Suspension of Democracy in Macedonia, Policy Paper, Skopje: Progress. January 2013. Early Elections, a Negative EU Report and a Positive ICJ Rulling in 2011. What Is in Store for the Republic of Macedonia in 2012, Perspective, Berlin: FES, January 2012. Corruption as impediment to EU integration: Improving Good Governance in the Republic of Macedonia, Policy Paper, Skopje: Progress, January 2011 (co-author). The European Union Foreign Policy After the Lisbon Treaty: Transformation and Integration of the Western Balkans, Policy Study, Skopje: Progress, May 2010, pp. 1 46. Decentralization in the Republic of Macedonia, Working Paper, Berlin: SWP, September 2005, pp. 1 10. Presentations at academic conferences ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding, University of Warsaw, 29.03-02.04.2015, Warsaw. Nationalist Responses to Economic and Political Crises. Central European University (CEU), Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) and Tom Lantos Institute (TLI). Central European University, 12-14.06 2014, Budapest. Paper admitted to the 16 th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, 14-16 April, 2011, New York. 61 st Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, 19-21 April, 2011, London. Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, 2-4.04.2011, Cambridge. 4
International Workshop Citizenship, Sovereignty and Soft Borders in Southeast Europe, University of Munich, University of Hamburg and Volkswagen Foundation, 11-13.03.2011, Pocking. Academic Workshop Research on State-building in the Western Balkans: Comparative Methodologies, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Global Governance, 10.12.2010, London. 3 rd ECPR Graduate Conference. City University Dublin, August 30-1 September, 2010, Dublin. 6 th CEU Graduate Conference in Social Sciences, Social Science Perspectives on Global Transformation and Social Change. 16-18 April, 2010, Budapest. 3 rd Graduate Network Conference Political and Social Change in Europe. University Pompeu Fabra, 18-20 March, 2010, Barcelona. Conference Risking Elections Milestone or Stumbling Block for Democratization. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2 November, 2009, Berlin. Research Seminar Social Remembering and Post-Conflict Discourses of Otherness. Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade (co-organized with the University of Oslo), 22-23 October, 2009, Belgrade. Presentations at policy conferences The European Security Policy on the Crossroad. Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Center for Foreign Policy, 26 June, 2015, Belgrade. Democratic Governance and Public Administration Reforms in the Western Balkans. The Aspen Institute, 15-18 June, 2015, Belgrade. Workshop Culture of Regional Cooperation, organized as part of the Civil Society Initiative of the Vienna Western Balkans Summit. European Fund for the Balkans, ERSTE Stiftung, Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Renner Institut, 26 May, 2015, Belgrade. Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), Meeting. European Fund for the Balkans and Centre for Southeast European Studies (CSEES), 25 May, 2015, Belgrade. A Region in Limbo: South East Europe in the Light of Strained Western-Russian Relations. PfP Consortium and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, 23-25 April, 2015, Reichenau. Youth in East Europe (YEE). Challenges and Perspectives in Times of Transition. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 27 February, 2015, Berlin. BiEPAG, Workshop and meeting. European Fund for the Balkans and CSEES, 30 January, 2015, Graz. Political Parties in South East Europe: Supporting Intra-State, Regional and European Consolidation. PfP Consortium and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, 22-24 May, 2014, 5
Reichenau. Tutzing Balkan Talks. Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 2013, 2011, 2010, 2008 and 2007. Tutzing, Germany. Social Impact of the European Crisis on the Western Balkans / Southeastern Europe. Südosteuropa Gesselschaft and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 29 November, 2013, Berlin. Shaping the Future in Macedonia. Civil society's questions and answers to current issues. Südosteuropa Gesselschaft, 28-29 October, 2013, Berlin. Croatian Membership in the EU Implications for the Western Balkans. PfP Consortium, Institute for Development and International Relations and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports, 26-28 September, 2013, Zagreb. A Failure of the Elites or Structural Deficit? Looking for the causes of the EU enlargement crisis in the Western Balkans. German Institute for International and Security Affairs and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 17-18 June, 2013, Berlin. FES-Dialogue on Western Balkans. Monitoring Regional Cooperation in Southeast-Europe. Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 5 June, 2013, Brussels. The Western Balkans and EU enlargement: ensuring progress on the rule of law. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Wilton Park, 25-27 March, 2013, Wilton Park. Bilateral Security Roles in Southeast Europe. The Aspen Institute, Germany 22-25 October, 2012, Madlitz-Wilmersdorf. The Future Roles of NATO and the EU in Southeast Europe. EU Enlargement and Transatlantic Challenges. The Aspen Institute, Germany 5-8 September, 2012, Durres. EU enlargement: A never ending hurdle? Foundation for European Progressive Studies, European Forum for Democracy and Solidarity, Institute for Social Democracy Progress and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. 11 February, 2012, Skopje. High Level Panel: How to share transformation experiences: An expert and young leaders' discussion on the transferability of lessons learned in transformation processes, European Development Days. Deutsche Gesselschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and Bertelsmann Foundation, 15 December, 2011, Warsaw. European Integration of the Western Balkans. Constraints and Challenges. Foundation Robert Schuman, Center for Democracy and Human Rights and Konrad Adenauer Foundation. 29-30 September, 2011, Becici. Beyond Frozen Conflicts in South East Europe: the Belgrade-Prishtina/Prishtina-Belgrade Dialogue and its Regional Implications. PfP Consortium, Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports. 22-24 September, 2011, Prishtina. From Bosnia and Herzegovina to Northern Kosovo Coping with the Remaining Impasses in the 6
Western Balkans. PfP Consortium and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports. 13-16 May, 2011, Reichenau. Fostering Policy Dialogue: TRAIN Programme. Presentations at the European Commission and European Parliament. Deutsche Gesselschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe and European Fund for the Balkans. 5-9 December, 2010, Brussels. Competition in the Business World: Challenges and Prospects for Bosnia and Herzegovina. A New Transatlantic Dialogue: German and U.S. Leaders in Dialogue with Leaders from the Western Balkans. The Aspen Institute, Germany 15-18 September, 2010, Berlin. Crisis of the model pupil from the Balkans? Insistence and change in the Republic of Macedonia. The road towards the Euro-Atlantic family. Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the German- Macedonian Association. 3 December, 2008, Berlin. Cutting or Tightening the Gordian Knot? The Future of Kosovo and the Peace Process in the Western Balkans after the Decision for Independence. PfP Consortium and Austrian Ministry of Defence and Sports. 23-26 May, 2008, Reichenau. 7