Mladen Mrdalj

Mladen Mrdalj holds an LLB and an MA in Security Studies from the University of Belgrade in Serbia. He earned his PhD in political science at Northeastern University in Boston with a dissertation on the collapse of Yugoslavia. Professor Mrdalj has been working on Northeastern University’s summer semester in the Balkans since 2010 as a lecturer and co-leader of the program. Beyond academia, he has worked in a political risk consultancy and at the Belgrade-based Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD). At CIRSD, Dr. Mrdalj focused on the “Balkan Route” for Middle Eastern migrants in a joint project with the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies. In addition, he also worked on the 2016 United Nations Secretary General electoral campaign and on a 2017 Serbian presidential election campaign. Dr. Mrdalj was a visiting scholar at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies in 2018 after which he taught at the International Burch University in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Webster University in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). His academic interests include international relations and comparative politics with focus on the Balkans and Central Asia, civil war, ethnic conflict, and nationalism. Dr. Mrdalj serves as the program director at the BIEE.