Stefan Surlić is an Assistant Professor at the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Science. Fields of his academic interest include comparative politics, democratization and state-building in post-conflict and ethnically divided societies. Since 2013, he has been an associate researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Balkans (CISBalk). Within his professional career, he initiated the first academic cooperation between Belgrade and Pristina, and was the editor of the publication “Perspectives of a Multiethnic Society in Kosovo”.