LSE IDEAS China Foresight and the Ratiu Forum invite you to join our panel discussion on: ‘China-US Competition in the Balkans’ based on the latest Strategic Update from our LSE IDEAS Mladena and Dianko Sotirov Visiting Fellow, Ivan Lidarev.
Meet the speakers and chair
Dr Ivan Lidarev is a foreign policy analyst and expert on Asian security and the international relations of China and India. In 2021 he obtained his PhD in International Relations and Political Science from King’s College London with a dissertation on the China-India territorial dispute. Ivan served as advisor at Bulgaria’s National Assembly (2014-2017), Graduate Teaching Assistant at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (2018-2019), and Associate Features Editor of E-International Relations (2015-2016). He has participated in various leadership and training programmes, including as Young Leader (2016, 2017) at the GLOBSEC Forum, MERICS Young European China Talent (2018) at Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS), and New Security Leader (2021) at the Warsaw Security Forum.
Dr Eli Gateva is a Lecturer in European Union Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She has held academic posts at the University of Manchester, Queen Mary University of London, University of York and University of Nottingham. Eli was a Visiting Fellow at the LSEE – Research on South Eastern Europe at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015-2017). She is the author of European Union Enlargement Conditionality. Eli recently contributed to The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics. Her current research explores the impact of EU democracy promotion and safeguarding in EU member states and enlargement countries.
Her main research interests include European Union politics, EU conditionality, EU Enlargement policy, democracy, East European Politics and anti-corruption policies. She has recently contributed to Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Her monograph European Union Enlargement Conditionality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) explores the nature and evolution of EU enlargement conditionality. Her current research analyses the impact of post-accession conditionality on the quality of democracy in EU member states.
Ana Krstinovska is a CHOICE Research Fellow and the President of the North Macedonian think tank and consultancy ESTIMA. Previously, she was a Program Manager for the Center for Research and Policy Making - CRPM in Skopje, as well as a State Secretary for European Affairs and Advisor for International Cooperation/First Secretary in the Permanent Mission to the EU within the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia.
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Eli Gateva is a Lecturer in European Union Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She has held academic posts at the University of Manchester, Queen Mary University of London, University of York and University of Nottingham. Eli was a Visiting Fellow at the LSEE – Research on South Eastern Europe at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science (2015-2017). She is the author of European Union Enlargement Conditionality. Eli recently contributed to The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics. Her current research explores the impact of EU democracy promotion and safeguarding in EU member states and enlargement countries.