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The Center for European Integration Strategies (CEIS) was set up in late 2005 to continue some of the work undertaken by the Association Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005. The Association had been established on 17 September 2003 to facilitate policy research in preparation of a high-profile international conference on Bosnia and Herzegovina held in Geneva on 20-21 October 2005. With the successful organization of the conference, the Association fulfilled its aims and was dissolved in December 2005. The Association’s Executive Council decided to launch the CEIS as a think tank to follow up on the work initiated by the Association and to implement the conclusions of the Geneva conference as well as of a seminar held in Vienna on 18 November 2005, focusing on EU integration processes and the regional dimension in the Western Balkans. The CEIS pursued its mission through offices in Geneva, Vienna and Sarajevo and an international network of scholars and analysts until 2009. Since 2010, the CEIS had to reduce its activities and focuses on the publication of op-ed and books in the series Southeast European Integration Perspectives (SEIP) at Nomos.
Newsletter no 8.2009 
Newsletter no 7.2009 Newsletter no 6.2008 Newsletter no 5.2008 Newsletter no 4.2007
Newsletter no 3.2007 Newsletter no 2.2006 Newsletter no 1.2006 CEIS backgrounder 2006 Annual Report 2005
Annual Report 2006 Annual Report 2007 Annual Report 2008 Annual Report 2009 Annual Report 2010
Annual Report 2011
Archive of the Association Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005 Support the CEIS
Members of Senior Advisory Board (SAB) are high-level figures from public life with a strong connection to the Balkans and the EU who help promote CEIS activities and outputs and give advice on programming. The SAB also provides strategic guidance to the Board of Directors and facilitates access to resources.
Wolfgang Petritsch, Paris (Chair) | Sonja Biserko, Belgrade | Erhard Busek, Brussels | Jakob Finci, Bern | Sir Marrack Goulding, Oxford † | Pierre Hassner, Paris | Bozidar Matic, Sarajevo | Predrag Matvejevic, Rome | Vreni Müller-Hemmi , Zurich | Manfred Nowak, Vienna | James C. O’Brien, Washington, D.C. | Vesna Pusic, Zagreb | Hannes Swoboda, Vienna | Theodor Winkler, Geneva
Members of the Scientific Council are invited on the basis of their expertise and activities related to the Balkans, to post-conflict peacebuilding, or EU integration. The Scientific Council advises the Board of Directors on the scientific substance of CEIS work. It contributes to formulating the main goals of the CEIS and to assessing its activities, Organization, and development. It also facilitates the collaboration with universities, research institutes and other potential project partners.
Othon Anastasakis, Oxford, South East European Studies, St Antony's College | Judy Batt, Paris, Institute for Security Studies | Florian Bieber,Graz, University of Graz | Sumantra Bose, London, London School of Economics | Michael Daxner, Oldenburg, University of Oldenburg | Josef Marko, Graz, University of Graz | Zoran Pajic, London, King’s College | Paul Stubbs, Zagreb, Institute of Economics | Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies | Susan Woodward, New York, City University of New York
The International Executive Committee is the governing body of the CEIS.Its members are designated according to the following key: 4 representatives of the Senior Advisory Board; 2 representatives of Scientific Council; 2 representatives of regular and associate members, to be designated at the first General Assembly; and, as a non-voting observer, the Secretary-General as a representative of the Board of Directors.
Jakob Finci (President) | Florian Bieber, Graz | Vreni Mueller-Hemmi, Zurich | Zoran Pajic, London | Alexander Petritz, Belgrade | Vesna Pusic, Zagreb | Christophe Solioz, Geneva (Secretary-General) | Hannes Swoboda, Vienna
