Research2

My thesis will therefore include a comparison with the European Union monitoring mechanisms, in order to determine if the monitoring methods of the two organisations are complementary. I will try to examine the validity of the hypothesis according to which for those countries that are candidates for membership in the EU, Council of Europe monitoring is meaningful only if it leads to EU membership.

Until now, no empirical study has been conducted of Council of Europe monitoring mechanisms, and on their concrete effects. Since 1989, research in the field of "transitology", including its international context, has gone through a notable development, and has been accompanied in recent years by studies of consolidation. Independently, research has developed in the field of implementation and the respect of international norms ("compliance"). I believe that it is precisely at the intersection of these two areas of research that lies another one, as yet unexplored: the role of monitoring mechanisms in the process of importing democratic norms and of institution building.

The development of transition and consolidation theories has shown that "…the emergence of new political arrangements is not enough to declare closed the process of regime change. […] The object of consolidology isn't the change of nature of political regimes, but the degree of institutionalisation of the rules that define them." Monitoring attempts to answer this challenge precisely, by using the techniques of "compliance" until now mostly studied from the aspect of importing institutional models, which seem to belong to theories of modernisation.

Within the Council of Europe, a true process of deliberation takes place between the competent bodies of the organisation and the representatives of the member states. I believe that it is precisely within the study of this process one must attempt to make the connection between these two theoretical approaches, by looking closely at what can be considered as a micro-political process ("comitology").

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Le développement constitutionnel yougoslave de 1918 à nos jours" in Le Dictionnaire Constitutionnel, Olivier Duhamel et Yves Mény eds., Presses Universitaires de France, 1992.

- "L'anatomie d'une captation nationaliste : l'absence de mouvements de contestation en Yougoslavie", Cultures et Conflits (1), Centre d'Etude des Conflits l'Harmattan, 1992.

"Les ambigüités du yougoslavisme" in De Sarajevo à Sarajevo : l'Echec Yougoslave, Jacques Rupnik et. al., Editions Complexe, 1992.

Various articles for the French, Croatian and Swiss press

Non- published:

"La contribution du Conseil de l’Europe à l’évolution des notions de citoyenneté et de
nationalité dans l'Europe post-communiste" - Paper presented at the International
Conference on Nationality and Citizenship in post-communist Europe - Institut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris, 9-10 July 2001