BIO

J.Rupnik has been an advisor to the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel (1990-1992) and continued to work with him after that. He is a member of the board of the Vaclav Havel presidential library in Prague. Among the various positions held: advisor to the European Commission 2007 – 2010.Member of the scientific committee of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University in Prague (1998-2007); Member of the board of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague (2010-2017). Member of the board of directors of the European Partnership for Democracy in Brussels (2008-2013). Member of the Research Council of the International Forum for Democracy Studies in Washington (since 2013). He has been a visiting Professor in several European universities and in the Department of Government, Harvard University (2006),

J.Rupnik published numerous books and scholarly articles, including The Other Europe (London, 1989, translated in a dozen of languages and a companion volume to a six hour documentary film on postwar Eastern Europe for British television). His publications include Histoire du Parti communiste tchécoslovaque (1981), Le Nouveau Continent (with D.Moisi, 1991), L’Europe des Vingt-Cinq (with Ch.Lequesne, 2004) and edited volumes such as Totalitarismes (1984), Czech and Slovak Roads to the European Union (2003), International Perspectives on the Balkans (2003), Les Banlieues de l’Europe, les politiques de voisinage de l’UE (2007), The Western Balkans and the EU: ‘the hour of Europe’, Paris, EUISS (2011), 1989 as a Political World Event: Democracy, Europe and the new international system, with an introduction by Vaclav Havel, London, Routledge, ( 2013), Géopolitique de la démocratisation, l’UE et ses voisinages (Presses de Sciences Po, 2014), 1989 as a Political World Event: democracy, Europe and the new international system in the age of globalization (Routledge, 2014), (ed.) Europe at the Crossroads: Democracy, Neighbourhoods, Migrations, Prague, Vaclav Havel Library, 2018, Senza Il Muro, Le due Europe dopo il crollo del communismo, Rome (Donzelli, 2019).