Europa Publications’ regional publications are compiled by a team of editors and researchers, with introductory and country-specific material provided by specialists in their field: Othon Anastasakis. Director, European Studies Centre and Director, South East European Studies at University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. Daunis Auers. Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Latvia, Rīga, Latvia. Will Bartlett. Deputy Director, LSE Research on Southeast Europe, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Dimitar Bechev. Lecturer, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, and visiting scholar, Carnegie Europe, Brussels, Belgium. Klodiana Beshku. Lecturer in Geopolitics and International Relations, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania. Florian Bieber. Professor of Southeast European History and Politics, Director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies, and Co-ordinator, Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG), University of Graz, Graz, Austria. Daniela Bobeva. Professor at the University of Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship, Sofia, Bulgaria. Cathie Carmichael. Professor of European History, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. Jovan Ðurašković. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro. Indra Ekmanis. Non-resident Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Lenka Filipová. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic. Tom Gallagher. Emeritus Professor, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom. Kęstutis Girnius. Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Karen Henderson. University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia. Marko Attila Hoare. Department of Political Science and International Relations, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Andres Kasekamp. Professor of History and Chair. of Estonian Studies at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. Milena Konatar. Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro. Cvete Koneska. Head of Advisory at Dragonfly Intelligence, London, United Kingdom. Filip Kostelka. Chair in Political and Social Change, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy, and Professor and Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom. Claudia Laštro. Teaching Assistant, Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Graz, Austria. David Lea. Political and economic analyst specializing in European affairs. Anita Prazmowska. Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London, London, United Kingdom. Tena Prelec. Centre for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia. Mariola Pytliková. Assistant Professor, Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CERGE-EI), Prague, Czech Republic. Andrew Ryder. Political and economic analyst, researcher and consultant on regional economic development, regional geography and sustainability; and retired lecturer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Gábor Scheiring. Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Social and Political Sciences and the Dondena Centre, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy. Tobias Spöri. Researcher, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Sandis Šrāders. Lecturer, Baltic Defence College, Tartu, Estonia, and Researcher, Centre for Security and Strategic Research, Latvian National Defence Academy, Rīga, Latvia. Marcus Tanner. Journalist and author. Alen Toplišek. Senior Lecturer in Global Affairs and Politics, University of Derby, Derby, United Kingdom. Luca J. Uberti. Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. Anastas Vangeli. Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Urmas Varblane. Professor of International Business, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Máté Veres. Political and economic analyst based in Budapest, Hungary. Anna Visvizi. Associate Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland, and Fellow, Hellenic Institute of Growth and Prosperity, American College of Greece, Athens, Greece. Emilia Zankina. Dean, Temple University Rome, Rome, Italy.