Contact:
Tel:+46-(0)18-471-71 69
e-mail: epoljarevic /at/ silkroadstudies.org

Expertise:
- State Building
- Southeastern Europe (SEE) Security Issues
- Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking
esp. Baltic Region and SEE
-Islam and Political Islam in North Africa and Central Asia

Ongoing Projects at the Program:

- Narcotics, Organized Crime, and Security in Eurasia

Mr. Emin Poljarevic is a project coordinator and a researcher at the Joint Center's Uppsala office. He is conducting research on organized crime and security issues as well drug smuggling in South Eastern Europe. On the side Mr. Poljarevic also conducts research on development of political Islam in Eurasia.

He holds a B.S. in Political Science, from Georgia College and State University, GA, USA also a B.A. from Uppsala University. He also holds M.A. in Comparative Politics from Uppsala University, Sweden. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD degree at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Chapters in book

Poljarevic, Emin (with Ingvar Svanberg), "Islam in Latvia", Islam and Muslims in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Kegan Paul, (forthcoming 2007/2008)

Articles

Poljarevic, Emin, "Somalia: Civil War since 1991" (revised and updated), Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, M.E. Sharpe, 2006

Emin Poljarevic (with Erica Marat), "Muslim Immigrants from Post-Soviet States in Europe: Community Building along Religious Identities" , Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, 19 April, 2006. [also appeared at An Nahar a Lebanese daily newspaper]

Poljarevic, Emin, "Bosnien: en sui generis stat" (Bosnia: a sui generis state), Inblick Östeuropa, 8 December, 2005

Reports

Poljarevic, Emin "Societal Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Regional Efforts to Combat Organized Crime and Narcotics Smuggling", May/June 2006.

Poljarevic, Emin, (with Svante Cornell, Mikael Jonsson, Trifin Roule and Niklas Swanström), Penningtvätt och Finansiell Brottslighet i Östersjöområdet [Money Laundering and Financial Crime in the Baltic sea Region], Rapport till Mobilisering mot Narkotika [Report to the Swedish National Drug Policy Coordinator], March 2006.

Poljarevic, Emin (with Niklas Swanström and Elizabeth Peterson) "Organized Crime and Narcotics in the Baltic Sea Region: Issues of National and Regional Security", Conference Report, June 2005.

Poljarevic, Emin, "New Security Threats in Euroasia: Implications for The Euro-Atlantic Space", Conference Report, May 2005.

Poljarevic, Emin, "Stockholm Conference on New Security Threats in Eurasia", Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst, June 15, 2005.

Poljarevic, Emin, "Countering Narcotics and Organized Crime in the East Baltic Sea Region", Conference Report, Spring 2005

Op-eds, etc

Svante Cornell, Michael Jonsson, Emin Poljarevic, Trifin Rouls and Niklas Swanström, "Kriminella nätverk föredrar Sverige för att tvätta pengar " [Criminal Networks Prefer Sweden for Money Laundering], Dagens Nyheter, 23 March, 2006.