Marlene Spoerri
Contributing Editor
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Marlene Spoerri is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Amsterdam's department of European studies. Her dissertation examines foreign assistance to political parties in post-communist Serbia. From 2008 to 2009, she was a visiting guest at Central European University's department of political science.
As Carnegie Council contributing editor, Spoerri writes regularly for the Council's weekly Global Ethics Corner and also posts occasional articles.
Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Spoerri spent several years in the former Yugoslavia, where she worked as program assistant for the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a transatlantic grant-making foundation based in Belgrade, Serbia. In addition, she successfully concluded internships with the Humanitarian Law Center (a leading NGO working to uphold transitional justice), and the U.S. Embassy in Croatia.
Spoerri is part of an NWO-funded research project entitled International Intervention, Democracy and Political Parties: The External Dimension of Democratization Processes in the Balkans and the Former Soviet Union. This interdisciplinary project concerns the influence of external intervention on political party building and democratization processes in post-conflict and post-authoritarian states, including Bosnia and Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, and Serbia.
Focus: Democracy, Diplomacy, Human Rights, Peace, War, Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Kosovo, Serbia, Ukraine, Europe
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Last Updated: Feb 03, 2012
