Adam Balcer Author

Manuela Caiani is Professor in Political Science at the Scuola Normale Superiore, affiliated scholar at the Cosmos Center for Social Movement Studies (SNS) and associated faculty at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS) in Vienna. Her research focuses on Social Movements and Europeanization; Far Right Politics; Extremism online; Right Wing and Left Wing Populism; Movement-parties; Qualitative methods of social research. Since 2019 she is Convenor of the Standing Group ‘Political Participation and Social Movements’ of the Italian Association for Political Science (SISP) and since 2021 Co-director of the International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion-OCIS, https://osservatoriocoesionesociale.eu/. She has directed and collaborated in various international projects (2021; Volskwagen Stiftung; Europe for Citizens Program; FP4, FP5, FP7; PRIN; Marie Curie; Research Grant Jubilaumsfonds, ONB; Doctoral TRA Fellowship, START Center, 2009, University of Maryland). She published in, among others, the following journals: Social Movement Studies, EJPR, Mobilization, Acta Politica, West European Politics, Government and Opposition; European Union Politics, South European Society and Politics, RISP and Routledge.

Benedetta Carlotti is a researcher at the Free University of Bolzano – Bozen in political science where she teaches Comparative Politics, Public Policy and European Integration. She received her PhD in 2018 in political science and sociology from the Scuola Normale Superiore with a thesis on political opposition within the European parties. Her research focuses on Euroscepticism, the European Union, populist populism (in all its declinations), social media analysis and qualitative and quantitative methods for research. Among other, she has published for Italian Review of Political Science, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, European Political Science Review.

Marko Lovec is an Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences and an Associated Researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously he was associated to the Institute of International Relations in Prague and Central European University, Centre for Policy Studies. His research is focused on the EU/European policies and politics. He has published, among others, in the Journal of International Relations and Development, Journal of European Integration History, Journal of Environment Conservation, European Review of Agricultural Economics and Review of European Economic Policy. He has published his own monograph in 2016 and contributed several chapters to monographs published with international publishing houses. He has been working on many research projects including those funded by Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, JM/Erasmus+, European Commission and European Parliament. He received several individual grands and awards such as the Visegrad grant and the University of Ljubljana award for outstanding work of junior researchers and teachers.

Maria Wincławska is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Political and Security Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her main research interests concentrate on political parties, party organizations, party members, and party systems, as well as research methods. She published monographs or in edited volumes among others and in Journals, such as Problems of Post-communism, Romanian Journal of Political Science, Czech Journal of Political Science and Polish Political Science Yearbook.

Faris Kočan is a researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences. His research is focused on the Europeanisation of the Western Balkans and the role of the European integration in addressing the troubled past of post-Yugoslav space. He received his PhD in 2021 in European Studies with a thesis on the impact of Europeanisation on the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Serbs and the political identity of Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has published, among others, in the Nationalities Papers, Ethnopolitics, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, and contributed chapters to monographs published in international publishing houses. He has been working on many research projects, including those funded by Horizon 2020, JM/Erasmus+ and Slovenian Research Council.

Adam Balcer is program director of the Jan Nowak Jeziorański College of Eastern Europe and lecturer at the Centre for East European Studies at the University of Warsaw and national researcher of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he worked, among others, at the Centre for Eastern Studies (head of project), demosEUROPA- Center for European Strategy (program director) and as a foreign policy advisor in the office of the President of the Republic of Poland. Author of three books, numerous articles, and reports on Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Black Sea countries. He contributed chapters to monographs published in international publishing houses. His reports, commentaries and policy papers have been published by main international think thanks (for instance, European Council on Foreign Relations, German Marshall Fund, Centre for European Policy Studies, European Policy Centre, Carnegie). He has been working on many research projects, including those funded by Horizon 2020, Erasmus+ and Europe for Citizens.