Věra Stojarová works as an academic researcher and associate professor at the Department of Political Science in the Faculty of Social Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. She has been focusing on security and politics in the Western Balkans. Věra Stojarová has published many papers on security and politics in the Western Balkan region and has also cooperated with NGOs, lecturing about the security problems faced by societies in transition. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-5171