Articles by Sadie Zarris

October 21, 2026

From plenums to parliament: the rulebook behind Serbia's Student List

Sadie Zarris
Serbia's student movement is on the ballot on 25 October, but no student is a candidate. Drawing on internal documents, Sadie Zarris shows how a movement without leaders wrote itself an exacting rulebook, enforced by nothing but consent. The harder test, she argues, comes once its candidates become MPs
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Sadie Zarris
Undergraduate, Northeastern University

Sadie studies international affairs and political science, with a minor in Russian, at Northeastern University, where she graduates in May 2027.

She is currently based in Belgrade on a work placement with CANVAS, the Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies.

Her research focuses on Serbian and post-Yugoslav politics, and on how the EU and Russia compete for influence in the Western Balkans.

She writes Borderlands, a column on contested borders and sovereignty, for the Northeastern University Political Review, and previously interned on foreign affairs for US Senator Ed Markey.

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