Biography

Jelena Džankić is Part-Time Professor in the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she directs the Southeastern Europe research area and co-directs the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT). She holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge and has held teaching and research positions 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 on wealth-based citizenship acquisition. Her previous works include Citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro: Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges (Routledge, 2015), as well as the co-edited volumes A year later : war in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics (2023, with S. Kacerska and S. Keil), The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality (2018, with S. Keil and M. Kmezic) and The Europeanisation of Citizenship Governance in South-East Europe (2016, with S. Kacarska and N. Pantic).

Personal webpages: GLOBALCIT, ORCID, CADMUS

Recent research output

• Authors: VINK, Maarten Peter;DZANKIC, Jelena;HUDDLESTON, Thomas;MANTHA-HOLLANDS, Ashley;VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan
  The global state of citizenship 2025 : gender quality, immigrant inclusion, and security of status - Technical Report

• Editors: DZANKIC, Jelena;KOTEVSKA, Biljana;MOKRÁ, Lucia
  The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe - Book

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena
  The geopolitics of democracy in the Western Balkans - Contribution to book

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena;SEYFETTINOGLU, Mira;SHACHAR, Ayelet;VINK, Maarten Peter;VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan
  The archipelago capitalism of citizenship-by-investment - Article

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena;KOTEVSKA, Biljana;MOKRÁ, Lucia
  The (geo)politics of democracy in wider Europe : step one - Contribution to book

• Authors: VINK, Maarten Peter;VAN DER BAAREN, Lucas Jan;BAUBÖCK, Rainer;DZANKIC, Jelena;HONOHAN, Iseult;MANBY, Bronwen
  GLOBALCIT Citizenship Law Dataset - Dataset

• Editors: VINK, Maarten Peter;DZANKIC, Jelena;BAUBÖCK, Rainer
  Citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants : an international legal comparison - Book

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena
  Can a complementary ECA democratise European democracy? - Contribution to book

• Authors: VINK, Maarten Peter;DZANKIC, Jelena;BAUBÖCK, Rainer
  Introduction [Citizenship acquisition by immigrants and their descendants : an international legal comparison] - Contribution to book

• Authors: DZANKIC, Jelena
  Investor citizenship - Contribution to book

Fields of expertise

• Global citizenship
• Southeastern Europe