School of Social and Political Science

Background

Qualifications

• PhD (University of Edinburgh)
• MA (Central European University)
• MA (University of Sarajevo and University of Bologna)
• BA (University of Prishtina)

Nationalism Studies Programme

I am Programme Co-Director for the MSc Nationalism in Global Perspective.

Details of our Masters courses which I (co-)organise can be found by clicking on the links below:

• Theorising Nationalism (PGSP11579) 
• Comparing Nationalisms (PGSP11580)
• Ethnopolitical Conflict (SCIL11036)
• Nationalism, Populism and Democracy (PGSP11608)

Selected publications

Books:

with Armakolas, I., Bouzarovski, s., Demjaha, A., Elbasani, A., and Schwandner-Sievers, S. Confronting Multiple Crises: Local and International Perspectives on Policy-Making in Kosovo. Pristina: Kosovo Foundation for Open Society, 2022. 

with Dejan Stjepanovic, Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space (edited volume), London, Routledge, 2015.

Articles/Chapters/Working Papers:

co-authored with Cvete Koneska and Adnan Huskić, 'Macedonia, Bosnia and Kosovo: Contested Statehood and the EU', (2023) Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 17:2, 173-191.

'Pro EU, no matter what: EU (mis)perceptions in Kosovo', in Integrating the Western Balkans into the EU: Overcoming Mutual Misperceptions, edited by Milica Uvalić (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

'Kosovo: A Great Powers’ European and Balkan Projection', in A New Eastern Question? Great Powers and the Post-Yugoslav States, edited by Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2022). 319-418.

‘New passport or new identity/category/hierarchy?’, (2022) in Mobility without membership : do we need special passports for vulnerable groups?, edited by Jelena Dzankic, and Rainer Bauböck, EUI RSC, 2022/01, Global Governance Programme-459, GLOBALCIT.

Report on citizenship law : Kosovo, [Global Governance Programme], GLOBALCIT, Country Report, 2021/4, [Global Citizenship].

Report on citizenship law : Albania, [Global Governance Programme], GLOBALCIT, Country Report, 2021/5, [Global Citizenship].

'Contested States as Liminal Spaces of Citizenship: Comparing Kosovo and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus,' (2019) Ethnopolitics, 18:3, 298-314.

'Contested territories, liminal polities, performative citizenship : a comparative analysis,' (2018) EUI Working Paper RSCAS 2018/13.

'Albanian Citizenship Configurations in the Balkans,’ (2017) Central and Eastern European Migration Review, 6:1, 49-64.

co-authored with Gent Cakaj, ‘The role of minorities in the Serb-Albanian political quagmire,’ in Kosovo and Serbia: Contested Options and Shared Consequences, edited by Leandrit Mehmeti and Branislav Radeljic (Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016), 149-167.

‘Equal citizens, uneven communities: differentiated and hierarchical citizenship in Kosovo,’ (2015) Ethnopolitics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 197-217.

co-authored with Dejan Stjepanovic, ‘Uneven Citizenship: Minorities and Migrants in the Post-Yugoslav Space,’ (2015) Ethnopolitics, Vol. 14, Issue 2, 113-20.

co-authored with Mehmet Musaj, ‘The EU’s ‘Limited Sovereignty – Strong Control’ Approach in the Process of Member State Building in Kosovo,’ in The EU and Member State Building: European Foreign Policy in the Western Balkans, edited by Soeren Keil and Zeynep Arkan (London: Routledge, 2015), 140-62.

‘Foreign Policy as a Constitutive Element of Statehood and Statehood Prerogative: The Case of Kosovo’, in The Foreign Policies of Post-Yugoslav States: From Yugoslavia to Europe, edited by Soeren Keil and Bernhard Stahl (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 198-219.

co-authored with Isa Blumi, ‘Albanians' Islam(s)’ in The Oxford Handbook of European Islam, edited by Jocelyne Cesari (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 475-516.

‘Revisiting nationalism in Yugoslavia: an inside-out view of the Nationalist Movement in Kosovo’ in Debating the End of Yugoslavia edited by Florian Bieber, Armina Galijaš and Rory Archer (London: Ashgate, 2014), 225-39.

‘State Borders, Symbolic Boundaries and Contested Geographical Space: Citizenship Struggles in Kosovo’ (2013) Transitions Vol. 52, No. 2, 29-51.

‘’Quadratic Nexus’ and the Process of Democratization and State-Building in Albania and Kosovo: A Comparison’ (2013), Nationalities Papers: The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, Vol. 41, No. 3, 395-411.

‘Overlapping Jurisdictions, Disputed Territory, Unsettled State: The Perplexing Case of Citizenship in Kosovo’ in Citizenship after Yugoslavia, edited by Jo Shaw and Igor Stiks (Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2013), 69-82.

‘Unpacking Post-Communist Socio-Political Transformations in the Western Balkans: A Citizenship-Centred Approach’ (2012) Südosteuropa Vol. 60, No. 4, 555-564.

‘Overlapping jurisdictions, disputed territory, unsettled state: the perplexing case of citizenship in Kosovo’ (2012) Citizenship Studies Special Issue: Citizenship in the New States of South Eastern Europe, Vol. 16, No. 3-4, 353 - 366.

'For Democracy — Against Violence’: A Kosovar Alternative’ in Resisting the Evil: [Post-]Yugoslav Anti-War Contention, edited by Bojan Bilic and Vesna Jankovic (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft | Southeast European Integration Perspectives, vol. 7, 2012) 83-103.

'Socialism, National Utopia, and Rock Music: Inside the Albanian Rock Scene of Yugoslavia, 1970–1989' (2011) East Central Europe Vol. 38. No. 2-3, 336–354.

'The ‘forbidden fruit’: Islam and politics of identity in Kosovo and Macedonia' (2011) Southeast European and Black Sea Studies Vol. 11, No.2, 191-207.

'The International Community’s Modus Operandi in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Kosovo: A Critical Assessment' (2010) Südosteuropa Vol. 58, No 4, 520-541.

'Defective alike, yet not equal; Cyprus, Taiwan and Kosovo,’ Journal of Human Rights and Policy, Vol 2, No. 1 (July 2009), 49-60.

Selected solicited articles and press:

Interviewed for a The Scotsman story 'Balkans: Warning over 'third major global conflict' amid fears Russian influence could create instability in Balkans' by Jane Bradley, 4 May 2024

Interviewed for an Al Jazeera story 'What’s behind the renewed tensions between Serbia and Kosovo?' by Thomas O Falk, 4 Aug 2022.

Good Morning Europe, Euronews, 29 April 2021.

Interviewed for Gara story ‘Apathy and status-quo in parliamentary elections in North Macedonia’ by Miguel Fernandez Ibanez, 15 July 2020.

US and EU Policy on Kosovo is in Disarray, Balkan Insight, 17 June 2020.

The Nine, BBC Scotland, 17 September 2019.

Past masters of the future and change that is not change, Remarker, 3 July 2019.

Interview: After the populist tragedy in Europe, it’s the ideal moment for the left. Kosovo 2.0.  26 December 2018.

Kosovo-Serbia Deal – Saving Faces or Saving Borders?, Balkan Insight, 17 September 2018.

Where is the spirit of 1997? Student protests and their shattered legacy, Prishtina Insight, 1 October 2017.

Rising up in the world: Kosovo’s quest for international recognition, Prishtina Insight, 22 November 2016.

What does the Brexit vote mean for Kosovo?, Prishtina Insight, 24 June 2016.

Kosovar sport’s fight for international recognition and glory, Prishtina Insight, 16 May 2016.

The EU’s Relations with Kosovo – Achievements, Limits, Challenges. European Futures Blog. 18 December 2015.

Kosovo’s political impasse and the limits of EU’s ‘creative ambiguity’ approach, European Council on Foreign Relations, 19 November 2015.

A Syrian tragedy turning into a European tragedy, UCL Europe Blog, 23 September 2015.

Stability, Cooperation and Integration: The Future of Serb-Albanian Relations. E-International Relations, 2 March 2015.