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Between Exit and Engagement: Balkan Lessons for Baghdad By Dr. Mark A. Baskin Time: 2-4pm, Thursday,
March 31 Location: UCIS Conference Room |
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Dr. Baskin spent nearly a decade working for United Nations peacekeeping
operations in the field and at mission headquarters in Zagreb, Vukovar,
and Sarajevo. He served as the United Nation's Deputy Regional
Administrator in Prizren, Kosovo, and as Prizren?s Municipal
Administrator from 1999 to 2000. Dr. Baskin's research has focused on
ethnicity and nationalism in socialist Yugoslavia, economic and
political transitions in the Balkans, and the establishment of rule of
law and governance in conflict zones. Dr. Baskin has taught at the
University of Michigan, Manhattanville College and the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of numerous scholarly
publications, book reviews, and journalistic articles on his experiences
and is frequently invited to give public presentations.
Dr. Baskin holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of
Michigan. In 2003-2004, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow
Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He speaks
fluent Serbo-Croatian and Russian.
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Mark A. Baskin is a political scientist, author, scholar, and field
practitioner with particular interests and expertise in conflict and
post-conflict administration, peacekeeping strategies, rule of law,
local government, and conflict mitigation. His geographic area of
emphasis has been the Balkans.
