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Rory Keane is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of East
Anglia. He is from the Republic of Ireland, and he studied and taught
in Limerick, and spent several years in the former Yugoslavia, before
joining the ESDP Democracy project in 2003.
He was stationed in Belgrade from 2000 to 2003, most recently as
the official spokesperson to the OSCE Mission, and previously as
Head of Reporting (Political Unit: OSCE), and as Civic Education
Project (CEP) Visiting Professor in Belgrade.
He has a PhD in International Relations on Deconstructing Binary
Opposition in Post-Dayton Bosnia (University of Limerick, Ireland,
1999) and a BA in European Studies (Limerick, 1996).
Keane is editor of Academic Writing in English for Students
in South Eastern Europe, HESP, Budapest, April 2003 and volume-editor
of "Political Science Forum - Perspectives on Central and Eastern
Europe" Volume 1, 2002. His thesis was published as Reconstituting
Sovereignty: Post Dayton Bosnia Uncovered, Aldershot: Ashgate
2002. He is the author of several academic articles and is working
on another book on the realities of the Solana policies in EU external
relations.
He is interested in the normative principles governing the implementation
of EU foreign policy, and in conducting case studies in South-East
Europe and beyond. He has particular knowledge of the Organization
for Islamic Conference (OIC) and is working on institutional cooperation
between the EU, OSCE and OIC through the civil management of ESDP.
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