Maja Šoštarić
Maja Šoštarić covers political and social issues involving her native Croatia, as well as Bosnia and Kosovo for Balkanalysis.com. Currently based in Sarajevo, Maja’s research interests include political affairs, human rights and transitional justice in the Balkans, and more broadly, linking transitional justice to international development.
Her particular expertise includes areas like constitutional reform and the political future of Bosnia, Kosovo-Serbia relations, Croatia’s EU future, minority rights issues, EU-Balkan relations, gender and conflict, and the role of truth and reconciliation commissions and other alternative means of dealing with past conflicts.
Maja is presently working in Sarajevo as a researcher for Impunity Watch, on a project that deals with assessing and improving the gender-sensitivity of approaches to transitional justice. In addition to writing for Balkanalysis.com, she has drafted studies for USAID and the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for External Policies.
Maja has acquired considerably international experience through higher education, conferences, consulting and project participation, taking her everywhere from Osaka to Vienna to Mexico. Her international project experience includes previous positions in Brussels, at both the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), and thereafter the Europe Programme Assistant for the International Crisis Group, focusing on Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as an internship with the Permanent Representation of the Order of Malta to the United Nations in Geneva.
Previous to taking up a research position with Impunity Watch, Maja also worked on a Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) project on gender and security sector reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Maja’s impressive linguistic skills include, aside from her native Croatian, fluency in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, along with intermediate knowledge of Japanese, and basic Chinese and Arabic. She holds a PhD with distinction in Political Science from the University of Vienna (2009), a Diploma in International Studies from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (2008) and an MA in Economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (2007).
Status: Maja Šoštarić is currently available for speaking engagements and event participation.
All previous Balkanalysis.com Articles, Interviews and Briefings by Maja Šoštarić
Challenges Loom for Croatia’s New ‘Kukuriku’ Coalition Government (December 23, 2011)
Balkanalysis.com Briefing with Vlado Azinović, Secretary General of the Atlantic Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina (November 21, 2011)
Croatia’s Controversial Bill Affects Serbia Relations, Poses a Challenge for EU Diplomacy (November 6, 2011)
From Zagreb with Love: On the Bounded Rationality of Euroskepticism and Europhilia in Croatia (September 12, 2011)
Bosnia, Revisited: Turkey’s Gains, Challenges and Future Aspirations (July 12, 2011)
Balkanalysis.com Briefing with Josephine Liebl of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (June 20, 2011)
Balkanalysis.com Briefing with Sabina Wölkner, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (June 9, 2011)
Kosovo’s Visa Liberalization Troubles: Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door (May 29, 2011)
Balkanalysis.com Briefing with Edon Cana, Ministry of European Integration of Kosovo (March 30, 2011)
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