Dr. Marko Kmezic is a lecturer and senior researcher at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz. He studied law at the Belgrade University and the University of Graz, where he earned his PhD with the thesis ‘Europeanization by Rule of Law Implementation in the Western Balkans’. Between 2006 and 2008 he worked in Belgrade for the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights. He is the author of ‘EU Rule of Law Promotion in the Western Balkans’, and co-editor of ‘Stagnation and Drift in the Western Balkans.