Valbona Zeneli (Ph.D) is a professor of security studies and deputy director of the Central and Southeast European Program at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. As deputy, she helps oversee work in eight resident courses and up to 200 outreach and alumni activities per year affecting 700 resident participants and 2,000 others in the region, affecting defense and security professionals in both regional and transnational programs. Her current research and teaching interests include international economics, transatlantic relations, institutional development in the transition economies, corruption, and Southeast European security issues. Before joining Marshall Center in 2011, Dr. Zeneli served as a professor of international economics at the European University of Tirana from 2009-2011 and associate professor at the New York University of Tirana from 2005-2010.Dr. Zeneli has previously served as chief of protocol and later economic adviser to the Albanian prime minister form 2003-2005. Prior to that, she worked as adviser to the minister of economy of Albania from 2002-2003. Dr. Zeneli has published numerous papers and book chapter in most well-respects journal and is a frequent contributor to Southeast European newspapers and other international leading magazines. She shares her expertise around the world lecturing in many countries and institutions. She is uent in English, Albanian and Italian and has good knowledge of German. Valbona Zenelis presentation focuses on economic challenges for state stability in the Western Balkans. Prof. Dejan Guzina is associate professor in the Political Science Department at Wilfrid Laurier University. An expert in comparative democratization and ethnic politics, his work has been published in several international journals. His current research is on state and nation building in the Western Balkans(Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia). His research intersects comparative democratization, ethnic conict management, and external state and nation building in post-conict states. It is mainly concerned with the evaluation of political institutions in divided political systems. He is particularly interested in power-sharing institutions, federalism, and citizenship and minority rights in the context of the Western Balkans.