Adnan Smajic (Bosnia and Herzegovina) holds a Master’s degree in Global Studies from University of Leipzig and University of Vienna, and a Master’s degree in Nationalism from Central European University. His Master’s thesis focused on the behavior of domestic political elites in imposed consociational arrangements and failures of external conditionality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is interested in researching migration and asylum policies, and conflict analysis and resolution, as well as political developments in the Western Balkans. He joined ESI as a Junior Fellow in November 2021.