Florian Bieber
@fbieber.bsky.social
🦫, professor, coordinator BiEPAG, director CSEES Uni. Graz, President ASN, in english, Deutsch i naški. Seriously Balkans Podcast.
We are delighted to present @fbieber.bsky.social as one of the keynote speakers of the 2026 ASN European Conference, Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises. He is Professor of Southeast European History and Politics and Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies ⬇️
📹 Our video recording of last's week Solidarity Award Ceremony is now online! Tune in for MP @boris-mijatovic.bsky.social's laudation, Igor Božić's acceptance speech and a conversation on Serbia's media landscape with Prof Dr. @fbieber.bsky.social. 📎 Link: youtu.be/X3AXRKz7I1g
The 2026 Solidarity Award for Journalists from Southeast Europe goes to Igor Božić
YouTube video by Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft
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📋 New BiEPAG policy brief is out! When competitive authoritarian regimes fall at the ballot box, there is a narrow window for reform. Yet most democratic breakthroughs fail. @fbieber.bsky.social, Claudia Laštro, and Enej Lovrečič examine why and what must change. Read now: tinyurl.com/jck8k2j5
📅 18–20 Sept 2026 📍 Belgrade, Serbia 🎤 Keynotes: @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social (@ucddublin.bsky.social) & @fbieber.bsky.social (@uni-graz.at ) 🔬 Supported in part by Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (IMAGINATION project) #ASNBelgrade2026 #NationalismStudies
Generally not the language I would recommend using when talking to the citizens you are supposed to represent.
Wird das noch was mit der EU-Erweiterung? Und was geht ab in den Ländern auf dem Balkan, die seit 23 Jahren im Warteraum hocken? Dazu habe ich eine 8-teilige Podcast-Serie gemacht: jetzt frei verfügbar bei Ö1 und bei ORF Sound
Ich habe mit @zdfheute.de.web.brid.gy über die Proteste in Albanien gesprochen: www.zdf.de/play/magazin...
Flamingo-Proteste in Albanien: Warum sie sich nicht nur gegen die Trump-Familie richten
Tausende demonstrieren gegen den Bau eines Luxusresorts in einem Naturschutzgebiet. Wie der Flamingo zum Symbol des Protests wurde – ZDFheute live.
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Zu den Protesten in Albanien mein Interview für WDR5 www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
Proteste in Albanien: "Fordern politischen Neuanfang"
Ein in einem Naturschutzgebiet geplantes Luxusresort mit Beteiligung von Ivanka Trump hat in Albanien eine Protestbewegung ausgelöst. Dahinter stecke auch der Kampf um Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Demokrat...
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Eine Besprechung und Zusammenfassung meines Buches über die Protestbewegung in Serbien. www.l-iz.de/bildung/buec...
Was Autokraten fürchten: Wie die Serben seit anderthalb Jahren versuchen, ihren Autokraten loszuwerden · Leipziger Zeitung
Wenn man den derzeitigen Nachrichten glauben darf, dann sind Autokratien weltweit im Vormarsch. Als wäre das ein Naturgesetz und die Menschen würden
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🔔 This month, we will present chapters from our forthcoming BiEPAG study on mining in the Western Balkans. Florian Bieber (@fbieber.bsky.social) explores the geopolitical dimensions of mining projects and growing competition over critical raw materials in the region. 📘 Read ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y699t978
Out now The stabilitocracy trap. How the EU enables autocratization in its neighborhood with Cengiz Günay, open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The stabilitocracy trap. How the EU enables autocratization in its neighborhood
The article examines how the EU's foreign policy, centered on stability, has contributed to autocratization in the EU's neighborhood. It explores this process on the cases of Serbia, Turkey, and Tu...
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🔔 Seriously Balkans – The BiEPAG Talks ep.22 🔹 The Student Protest Movement in Serbia: What does the Future hold? 🎙️ Our BiEPAG Coordinator @fbieber.bsky.social is hosting his guests: 🔸Marina Vulović 🔸Jelena Vasiljević 🔸 Nikola Burazer 👇 Tune in now 👇 open.spotify.com/episode/1Y48...
Discussants: - @fbieber.bsky.social, Center for Southeast European Studies, Univ. of Graz – Aynur Kanafina, UNFPA Eastern Europe & Central Asia – Eva Fodor, @weareceu.bsky.social – Maja Gerovska Mitev, Univ. of Skopje Chair: Ulf Brunnbauer (IOS) Panel w/ @sudosteuropa.bsky.social
Hvar in the Modern Age by @fbieber.bsky.social traces the history of the island using it as a lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing states & identity, tourism & the transnational entanglements of the Adriatic Sea & the region of southeast Europe. 🔓 https://bit.ly/49LfcLF
Ich habe an einem Podcast über die Geschichte des Kosovo mitgemacht, der nun auf Ö1 zu hören ist: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Österreichs größtes Kultur- und Informationsmedium – Nachrichten, Journale, Reportagen, Radiokunst und Musik.
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Out now: The Yugoslav Wars as a Palimpsest. Ontological Security, Serbia’s Anti-Western Narratives, and the War in Ukraine with Global Studies Quarterly, open access: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
The Yugoslav Wars as a Palimpsest. Ontological Security, Serbia’s Anti-Western Narratives, and the War in Ukraine
Abstract. The Russian aggression against Ukraine triggered memories of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s throughout the countries that experienced war. From t
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@ifdtbeograd.bsky.social brings Joseph Stiglitz to Belgrade, Vučić brings ćaci Jeffrey Sachs to Belgrade.
I had chance to talk to Danica Vučenić on N1 about Vučićs refusal to go to Brussels n1info.rs/vesti/biber-...
Biber: Nedolazak srpskog predstavnika u Brisel je jako loša poruka, ide na štetu Srbije
Profesor Univerziteta u Gracu Florian Biber poručio je da nedolazak srpskog predstavnika na Samit EU - Zapadni Balkan
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Apply to the @asn-org.bsky.social conference in Belgrade next year organized by ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/12/asn-...
ASN European Conference: Reconfiguring National Identities amid Multiple Crises, 18–20 September 2026
As an interdisciplinary event, the conference welcomes contributions from anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, law, literature, political science, gender studies, psychology,...
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Join us in Graz for a semester! The new call for applications for visiting fellows at the field of excellence Dimensions of Europe is open. Deadline 15 March: dimensions-of-europe.uni-graz.at/en/visiting-...
CALL 2026/2027 - Dimensions of Europe
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I talked to DW about EU enlargement and Vučićs proposal for a WB6 big bang www.dw.com/en/eu-enlarg...
Western Balkans summit: All together now? – DW – 12/17/2025
Should all the countries of the Western Balkans join the EU at the same time, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has suggested? What are the pros and cons? And how do the countries in question feel...
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Reports that Jared Kushner dropped Trump Tower in Belgrade are good news. It shows that resistance works, despite an authoritarian regime working with US administration and money from the UAE. It will further isolate Vučić and reduce the interest of Trump in Serbia. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...
After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law had sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
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Just published: the second edition of Debating Nationalism available at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-... for less than 20 GBP!
I spoke to @rfi.fr about the rise of the far-right in Croatia www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
Accents d'Europe - Trente ans après les accords de paix, les Balkans toujours divisés
Il y a tout juste trente ans, la diplomatie américaine parvenait à conclure un accord de paix mettant fin à la guerre des Balkans, qui a fait 100 000 morts et deux millions de déplacés. Mais les accor...
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When research becomes an AI generated lottery. It reveals the fundamental flaws of the system which has been a lottery for years eualive.net/horizon-euro...
Horizon Europe applicants slam Commissioner Zaharieva’s “lottery” plan
At a conference of the scientific community held recently in a large European city, applicants ...
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The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
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Great honor: most corrupt association gives most corrupt man in the world newly invented prize.
