Ph.D. candidate

Areas of research
Power-Sharing Approaches, Western Balkans, Transformation Processes, EU-Integration Processes, OSCE

Contact
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg
Phone: (+49) 40-866077-62

Curriculum vitae
Merle Vetterlein studied Political Science and History in Münster and Hamburg. She wrote her master’s thesis on the Macedonian transformation process and conducted field research in Macedonia in 2001, 2002 and 2003. After graduating in summer 2003, she worked as a research assistant for CORE, contributing to studies for the German Foreign Ministry and the European Commission. From January 2005 to the end of May 2005, she was based in Heidelberg, where she collaborated on the publication of the Friedensgutachten. Since June 2005, Merle Vetterlein has been a PhD candidate at the IFSH/CORE. She held a two-year scholarship from the German Foundation for Peace Research, and holds now a scholarship from the IFSH.
She is also responsible for the organisation of the network "Women in International Security", WIIS, in Hamburg.

Current project
Power-Sharing-Models for Fragmented Societies - The Impact of the Framework Agreement of Ohrid on the Conflict Structure and the Political System of the Republic of Macedonia

Languages
German, English, French, Macedonian (elementary)

Selected Publications

• Bildungspolitik als Schlüssel zur Konfliktlösung in Makedonien, in: Sicherheit und Frieden (herausgegeben von der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung), Februar 2007.
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• "The Influence of the Ohrid Framework Agreement on the EducationalPolicy of the Republic of Macedonia", Paper presented at the 8th Annual Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, 3 February 2006, Harvard University
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• /Klotz, Sabine, Deeskalationsbemühungen internationaler Akteure im Kosovo und in Makedonien, in: Ratsch, Ulrich u.a. (Eds): Friedensgutachten 2005, Münster, pp.79-87.
• Rezensionen in der Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft (Zpol).