Florian Bieber

How Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic sees the world As antigovernment protests in Serbia continue into their second year, who is the man maintaining a grip on power?

I added my 10c to this bio of Vučić for @aljazeera.com
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

🔔 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

Would be curious to hear more about your family history! Hope you enjoy the book.

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...

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

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...

@ifdtbeograd.bsky.social brings Joseph Stiglitz to Belgrade, Vučić brings ćaci Jeffrey Sachs to Belgrade.

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

I had chance to talk to Danica Vučenić on N1 about Vučićs refusal to go to Brussels n1info.rs/vesti/biber-...

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,...

Apply to the @asn-org.bsky.social conference in Belgrade next year organized by ifdt.bg.ac.rs/2025/12/asn-...

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-...

If only that were possible...

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...

I talked to DW about EU enlargement and Vučićs proposal for a WB6 big bang www.dw.com/en/eu-enlarg...

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.

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-...

but its gets more places for classical music by Mozzart, Beeethoven, Baach, and Villlvaldi

Just published: the second edition of Debating Nationalism available at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-... for less than 20 GBP!

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...

I spoke to @rfi.fr about the rise of the far-right in Croatia www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

Horizon Europe applicants slam Commissioner Zaharieva’s “lottery” plan At a conference of the scientific community held recently in a large European city, applicants ...

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...

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.

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.

Right, I forgot it's FIFA

Great honor: most corrupt association gives most corrupt man in the world newly invented prize.

I think the Nobel committee should start handing out a football world cup. There will come a day when FIFA will deeply embarrassed for sucking up to autocratic sociopath

Tito's head stolen in Slovenia and found in a car with Croatian plates. Sometimes reality is better fiction.

Es wird enger für Serbiens Präsident Vučić Im eigenen Land und auch international steigt der Druck auf Aleksandar Vučić, es gibt das Risiko eines Bruchs mit Russland. "Wenn ein Partner wegfällt, wird Vučić' Spielraum kleiner", sagt Experte Flo...

Wie sich Vučić politisch in die Ecke manövriert. Meine Kommentare für @derstandard.at
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Thompson: Pozivam Tomaševića na razum, inače ćemo povući puno radikalnije poteze NASTAVLJA se prepiranje Tomaševića i Thompsona.

Few have contributed more to relativizing fascism in Croatia than Thompson. It is good news that the mayor of Zagreb and the city council are reacting www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

30 Jahre Vertrag von Dayton - wie stabil ist das Konstrukt Bosnien-Herzegowina?

30 Jahre Dayton war der Anlass für ein ein Gespräch mit dem DLF: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/30-jahre-ver...

The mark of a great book: a write-up by the inimitable Holly Case.

Diskusija na IFDT-u: Studenti pokreću novu eru društvene mobilizacije i demokratizacije u Srbiji (VIDEO) Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju u Beogradu okupio je istraživače iz Srbije i inostranstva kako bi analizirali dosad neviđeni talas društvene mobilizacije u Srbiji, koji predvode studenti. T...

Great workshop on protests in 🇷🇸 www.insajder.net/vesti/diskus...

Workshop: Protests & New Democracy Horizons

Researchers analyse the student-led mobilisation wave in Serbia (emotions, identity, plenums). Public Discussion: M. Stojanović (Građanske inicijative), @fbieber.bsky.social (@uni-graz.at), @vujoilic.bsky.social (IFDT)
Mod: @gazelapudar.bsky.social (IFDT)