Articles by Jelena Džankić

January 21, 2025

🧭 EU enlargement: process first, outcome second

Jelena Džankić

The EU enlargement process successfully transformed Southern and Eastern European states into market democracies, but faltered in the Western Balkans. Jelena Džankić argues that amid today’s geopolitical challenges, prioritising the transformative mechanisms of EU enlargement is more critical than focusing solely on achieving full membership

Pandemic-era travel has been restricted worldwide, but not everyone has been affected equally

Jelena Džankić

International travel restrictions introduced during the pandemic constrained our freedom to travel. To understand how, we must look at the interaction between immigration status, citizenship, employment, and place of residence, write Lorenzo Piccoli, Jelena Dzankic, Timothy Jacob-Owens and Didier Ruedin

Jelena Džankić

Director, Global Governance Programme, European University Institute / Co-Director, Global Citizenship Observatory – GLOBALCIT

Jelena holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge, and has taught and researched at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, the University of Graz, and Passau University.

She is the author of The Global Market for Investor Citizenship (Palgrave, 2019), a leading study in the field of wealth-based citizenship acquisition.

Her research interests include citizenship acquisition and loss, wealth-based migration and new mobilities, Europeanisation and state-building.

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