EU Enlargement: Do the EU and the Western Balkans Share the Same Future? 

This panel discussion on the EU and the western Balkans with Jasmin Mujanović, Balkans researcher, commentator, and blogger, and Jelena Subotić, Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University, took place at the Pardee School of Global Studies on Tuesday, April 25, 2023. It was moderated by Vesko Garčević, Professor the Practice of International Relations, Pardee School of Global Studies.
Jasmin Mujanović is a political scientist specializing in the politics of post-authoritarian and post-conflict democratization and the co-host of the Southeast European affairs podcast “Sarajevo Calling.” His first book Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Hurst Publishers & Oxford University Press, 2018) examines the persistence of authoritarian and illiberal forms of governance in the Western Balkans since the end of the Yugoslav Wars.
Jelena Subotić is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia State University. She writes broadly about international relations theory, memory politics, human rights, transitional justice, international ethics, state identity, and the politics of the Western Balkans. Her new book, Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism (Cornell University Press, 2019) won the 2020 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies among other prizes.