Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Dublin City University
14. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘The Derecognition of States’, in Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle, and Edward Newman (eds) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition, London: Routledge, pp. 316-332. This chapter examines the theory and practice of state derecognition in world politics. It offers a comprehensive assessment of legal, normative and political theories, and surveys practices of state derecognition. It […]
13. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Kosovo’, in Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle, and Edward Newman (eds) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition, London: Routledge, pp. 402-416. This chapter explores Kosovo’s journey to independent statehood and the struggle for international recognition. The chapter argues that Kosovo’s diplomatic success in obtaining bilateral recognition has been the situational assemblage of multiple discourses, […]
12. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Towards a Critical Agenda on State Recognition’, in Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle, and Edward Newman (eds) Routledge Handbook of State Recognition, London: Routledge, pp. 473-494. This chapter offer a critical outlook of existing debates on state recognition and proposed future research directions. It argued that existing knowledge on state recognition and the […]
11. Vjosa Musliu and Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Introduction: Local Critiques of Intervention and Statebuilding’, in Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu (eds) Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosov,. London: Routledge, pp. 1-20. Global efforts to rebuild societies ruined by violent conflict are influenced first and foremost by the type of knowledge produced for and […]
10. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘International Statebuilding and Local Resistance in Kosovo’, in Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu (eds) Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo, London: Routledge, pp. 21-38. Resistance to international statebuilding has recently emerged as one of the key themes in critical peace and conflict studies. This chapter critically examines the role […]
9. Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu (2019), ‘Conclusion: After Local Critiques’, in Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu (eds) Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo, London: Routledge, pp. 178-182. This concluding chapter reflects on a number of cross-cutting findings, and charts potential avenues for future research. Often critiques of statebuilding are embedded on abstract […]
8. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Kosovo: Between Western and Non-Western States’, in Florian Bieber and Nikolaos Tzifakis (eds) The Western Balkans in the World: Linkages and Relations with Non-Western Countries. London: Routledge, pp. 108-125. This chapter offers an overview of Kosovo’s relationship with western and non-western states. It argues that Kosovo’s external linkages are predominantly determined by the historical […]
21. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Metis Diplomacy: The Everyday Politics of Becoming a Sovereign State’, Cooperation and Conflict, 52(2): 167-190. How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This article explores the everyday politics of becoming a sovereign state in world politics. Using the concept of ‘metis’, this […]
20. Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Critique and Alternativity in International Relations’, International Studies Review, 21(4): 678–704. This article critically interrogates the episteme of alternativity in International Relations (IR) to rethink the purpose of critical knowledge in global politics. It questions what critical knowledge is for and whose purpose it serves. While alternativity is the very condition which has […]
7. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert and Gëzim Visoka (2019), ‘Normal Peace: A New Strategic Narrative of Intervention’, in Ho-Won Jeong (ed.) Conflict Management and Transformation: Theory and Practice, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 27-46. International actors have used multiple discursive frameworks for justifying interventions, from human security to the responsibility to protect, and, most recently, resilience-building. We […]