Patrick G. MOORE is Coordinator for Balkan Analysis. He has also served as Deputy Director of the Communications Division and in a variety of analytical posts. At conferences, he asks to be described simply as "Balkan analyst for Radio Free Europe since 1977." He received his MA in Eastern European history under Professors Charles and Barbara Jelavich at Indiana University on an IU fellowship. He had a grade of "distinction" on his Ph.D. examinations and worked on a dissertation entitled "Franjo Racki and the Road to Trialism." Moore has an honors BA in history from the University of Michigan on a Ford Motor Company Scholarship and studied Balkan history at the University of Sarajevo on a Yugoslav government scholarship and Fulbright travel grant. His family home is in San Jose, California, but he grew up in Detroit and participated in the magnet schools high school program there.
Moore writes on the former Yugoslavia and Albania for the daily publication "RFE/RL Newsline." He writes for and edits the analytical weekly "Balkan Report," and edits the weekly "South Slavic Report," which is a translation of selected RFE/RL South Slavic broadcasts. He gives a weekly interview on regional and international affairs to the Albanian-language broadcasters of RFE/RL's South Slavic and Albanian Languages Service. As a result of the impact of his interviews, the Prishtina daily "Bota Sot" (The World Today) named him Personality of the Year for 2003.
Most of his professional activities take place in Central and Eastern Europe. He was the first non-German to be elected to full membership in Germany's Suedosteuropa-Gesellschaft, which is that country's primary organization for Balkan studies. His interests center on international relations in the Balkans and on post-communist transformations of political cultures and societies throughout the region. He has also written on the politics and international relations of China, Vietnam, Mexico, and Central America for RFE/RL.
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