Contributors

Thomas Bertin currently works in the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU on politico-military matters. Previously, he served as EU Political Advisor to the commander of EUFOR Althea and Advisor to the commander of NATO's SFOR. Prior to his deployment to Bosnia, he served as Desk Officer on Russia and the former Soviet Union in the French Prime Minister's office (Le Secrétariat Général de la Défense nationale).

Kurt Bassuener is Senior Associate of the Democratization Policy Council, a transatlantic initiative for accountability in democracy promotion. He served as Strategy Analyst at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo also worked for OSCE-ODIHR’s Election Observation Mission in Ukraine, the Democratization Policy Institute, the US Institute of Peace’s Balkans Initiative and the Balkan Action Council. He has written extensively on post-conflict security, state-building, and democratization.

Gabriele Cascone currently works in the Euro-Atlantic Integration and Partnership Directorate (EIPD) at NATO, where he is Country Officer for Croatia and Bosnia. Before joining NATO, he was active Duty Officer in the Carabinieri Corps. This included two tours of duty at NATO’s SFOR headquarters (Sarajevo) in 1997 and 1998. He is currently writing a Ph.D. dissertation at the University in Leuven on post-conflict statebuilding in Bosnia.

Enver Ferhatovic has extensive professional experience in the Balkans. He currently serves as the Senior Political Advisor, Political Department, Office of the High Representative, Sarajevo. He has a Master of Arts in Political Science and Law, both from the Free University of Berlin. He is currently completing an MA in Islamic Studies at the Sarajevo University.

Tobias Flessenkemper has worked in ESDP operations since 2003, currently as Chief of the EU Co-ordination Office of the EU police mission in Sarajevo and until early 2005 as Programme Co-ordinator of EU police mission Proxima in Skopje. Previously he worked for the OSCE, UNICEF, and the German Foreign Office in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. He also held the position of the Secretary General of the European Youth Forum in Brussels.

Dr. Maria Raquel Freire is assistant professor at the Nucleo de Relações Internacionais, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. She has widely published on the EU and the OSCE. She is the author of the book Conflict and Security in the Former Soviet Union: The Role of the OSCE.

Paul Kirwan has worked in crisis management since 1992. Following several years in Bosnia working for international organizations such as UNICEF and the OSCE. His later deployments have included Sri Lanka, Kosovo, Moldova, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan. After gaining an MSc at Oxford Brookes University, Paul returned to Bosnia for the EU Monitoring Mission, becoming Head of the Bosnia Office and Deputy Head of Mission prior to his recent deployment to the Aceh Monitoring Mission.

Xymena Kurowska is completing her PhD at the European University Institute in Florence, where she works with Friedrich Kratochwil (internal supervisor) and Ole Waever (external supervisor) on a dissertation on the ESDP in terms of policy design, employing a securitisation framework supplemented by Goffman's theory of strategic interaction.

Dr. Marta Martinelli is a Senior Research Fellow and MA lecturer at the Institute of European Studies, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and visiting lecturer at the UNESCO Chair Programme on Conflict Resolution and Human Rights of the University of Bujumbura, Burundi. She is also a member of the Task Force on Peace Building Policies which assists the Belgium Directorate General for Development in the formulation and implementation of its policies in particular in the Great Lakes. She has published on Security Sector Reform; Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration issues and EU crisis management.

Thomas Mühlmann is Head of Unit dealing with UN matters at the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before that he served, among others, as the Austrian Deputy Representative to the EU Political and Security Committee and as chief political advisor of the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia. He has degrees in international economics and political sciences.

Dr. Jeffrey Simon is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defence University, USA. Previously he was Chief, National Military Strategy Branch at the Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College. He has taught at Georgetown University and has held research positions at System Planning Corporation and the RAND Corporation. Jeffrey Simon has published extensively on European security affairs.