Rory Keane

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA (UK)

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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