Stefano Bianchini

Stefano Bianchini is an independent scholar. He was a Professor of East European Politics and History at the University of Bologna until October 2023, when he retired. From 2015 to 2021 he served as Rector’s delegate for relations with Eastern Europe. Previously, he coordinated the two-year Interdisciplinary MA in East European Studies (MIREES), a joint diploma of the Universities of Bologna, St. Petersburg, Vytautas Magnus at Kaunas, and Corvinus of Budapest. He was a visiting professor at the State University of St. Petersburg and holds an H.D. in Humanities from the Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. From 2001 to 2018, he was also the co-director of the European Regional Master in Democracy and Human Rights for SEE (ERMA), awarding a double diploma from the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna. He is a member of the Advisory board and former Vice president of the Association for Studies of Nationalities (ASN) based at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, and Executive Editor of the blind peer-review journal “Southeastern Europe”, (Brill, Leiden) and other academic journals.

As an expert on Balkan issues, he was an adviser to the ICTY in the Hague. He published and co-edited 39 books and over 200 articles in different languages. He is the author, among others, of Liquid Nationalism and State Partitions in Europe, Edward Elgar, London-New York, 2017; Eastern Europe and the Challenges of Modernity 1800-2000, Routledge, Abingdon-New York, 2015; La Question Yougoslave (Castermann, 1996), co-editor of Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China, together with Antonio Fiori (Brill, Leiden, 2020) and editor of Italy, Yugoslavia and the Controversy over the Adriatic Region, 1915-1920 (Routledge, Abingdon-New York, 2024).