NCRE

National Centre for Research on Europe

Milenko PetrovicDr Milenko Petrovic

Position

Senior Lecturer
Undergraduate Coordinator

Qualifications

BA, MA, PhD

Room

NCRE
Kirkwood Village KD04

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 4910
Fax: +64 3 364 2634
milenko.petrovic@canterbury.ac.nz

Postal address:
National Centre for Research on Europe
Kirkwood Village KD04
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Background

After growing up in the former Yugoslavia and beginning his academic career in his native city of Belgrade, Dr Petrovic has studied and researched as a visiting PhD student, postdoctoral fellow and/or visiting scholar at several Western European and US academic institutions, most notably the University of Kiel and University of Notre Dame. He has been lecturing and researching at the NCRE since 2001. He currently lectures on 20th century Eastern European history and politics, Europe's economic development and EU Enlargement issues beyond 2004. He has published widely on the comparative political economy and on development problems in the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe. In recent years he has been focusing his research interests on transitional problems in South-Eastern Europe as well as the prospects for further EU Enlargement to the East.

Courses

Undergraduate

EURO 224 Economic Development of Europe
EURO 226 Soviet Domination in Eastern Europe 1944-1991
EURO 325 EU Enlargement, 2004 and Beyond

Postgraduate

EURO 409 Eastern European Politics

Research Interests

  • Historical, economic and political aspects of the communist legacy in Eastern Europe
  • Political and economic transition in Eastern Europe
  • EU Enlargement to the East
  • Comparative Political Economy and Development

Selected Recent Publications (2003-)

 

Articles in journals/contributions to books

  • Petrovic, Milenko, John Leslie (2010), “Twenty Years of Overcoming ‘East’ and ‘West’…”, Guest Editors’ Introduction, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, i-v.
  • Petrovic, M. (2010), “Defining the European Union’s Eastern border”, NZ International Review, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, 19-23.
  • Petrovic, M. (2009), “(What about) the Further Enlargement of the EU? In between European Enlargement Fatigue and Balkan Instability Challenges’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, 39-58.
  • Petrovic, M. (2008), “The role of geography and history in determining the slower progress of post-communist transition in the Balkans”, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. XXXIII, No.2, 123-145. 
  • Petrovic, M. (2008), “EU Enlargement: the Balkan question”, NZ International Review, Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, (May/June, 2008), 19-22.
  • Petrovic, M. (2004): “How far and soon to the East? The prospects for future EU Enlargement”, Asia-Pacific Journal of EU Studies, Vol. 2, No. 2, 121-136.
  • Petrovic, M., Barrer, P. (2004): “New Zealand and EU Enlargement to the East”, NZ International Review, Vol. XXIX, No. 2 (March/April 2004), Wellington, 8-13.
  • Petrović, M. (2003): “The European Union and the Difficult Transition in South-Eastern Europe” in Lilly, I. and Bosselman, K. (ed) Repositioning Europe, Perspectives from New Zealand, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, 111-133.

Conference papers

  • Petrovic, M. (2010), “Investigating the Limits of EU Eastern Enlargement: politics, geography or ‘absorption capacity’?”, ECPR Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto, 24-26 June 2010.
  • Petrovic, M. (2009), “Is EU eastern enlargement completed. What about a united Europe ‘from the Atlantic to the Urals’”, International Conference Europe Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Overcoming “East and West”, NCRE and Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 3-4 November 2009.
  • Petrovic, M. (2008),“The Causes of Limited Success and Mutual Differences in Post-Communist Transition among the Countries of South-EasternEurope”, International Conference Challenges of Economic Sciences in the 21st Century, IES, Belgrade, 4-5 December, 2008.
  • Petrovic, M. (2007), “EU enlargement and the Western Balkans: how soon can they join?”, The New Zealand Political Studies Association Conference: “60 years of New Zealand Independence”, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 30-31 August, 2007.
  • Petrović, M. (2007), “The Past, but Which One? - Investigating the Historical Causes of the Slow Progress in Post-Communist Transition in the Balkans”, 8th Australasian Association of Communist and Post-Communist Studies (AACPCS) Conference, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 29-30 January, 2007.
  • Petrović, M. (2006), "Beyond 2004: The 'Next Wave' of EU Enlargement and New Zealand", Knowledge, Identities and Governance: Challenges for Contemporary Europe, Inaugural New Zealand European Union Centres Network Annual Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 9–10 November, 2006.
  • Petrović, M. (2006), "The Impacts of the Communist Past on Post-Communist Divisions in Eastern Europe", Australian and New Zealand Slavists’ Association (ANZSA) Annual Conference, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 28–29 September, 2006.
  • Petrovic, M. (2005), “Is there any ‘Eastern Europe’ anymore? Investigating the strength of the communist legacy”, International Conference: Dilemmas of the Post-Communist Condition, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK, 23-24 June, 2005.