Jasna Dragovic-soso

Biography

Jasna Dragović-Soso joined the department in 2004, contributing to the development of its international relations curriculum. Prior to that, she was a Research Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies/University College London funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Jasna has worked on several broad areas of politics and international relations: nationalism and the role of intellectuals, state disintegration, nationalist (‘ethnic’) conflict and international intervention, and transitional justice and the social construction of memory. Her research has been shaped both by an interdisciplinary approach and a focus on the former Yugoslavia and its successor states. She is currently researching processes of confronting the legacy of wars of the 1990s in the post-Yugoslav region, particularly through attempts to create truth and reconciliation commissions. Academic qualifications Ph.D. in International Relations (History and Politics), The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 1999. Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in Soviet and East European Studies, Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1992. Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures (DES) in International Relations (Political Science), The Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 1990. Bachelor of Arts with Honours in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1988.

Research Interest

Dr Jasna Dragovic-Soso's research has encompassed several broad areas of international relations: nationalism and the role of intellectuals and culture, state disintegration, nationalist (‘ethnic’) conflict and international intervention. It has been shaped both by an interdisciplinary approach and an area studies focus (on the former Yugoslavia and its successor states). She is particularly interested in the interconnectedness between the international and the domestic levels and my current research focuses on processes of transitional justice, the social construction of memory and ‘coming to terms with the recent past’ in the post-conflict Balkans.