Gëzim Visoka

5. Gëzim Visoka, John Doyle and Edward Newman (eds) (2019), Routledge Handbook of State Recognition, London: Routledge. Routledge Handbook of State Recognition is the first comprehensive and multidisciplinary companion to theoretical, comparative, and empirical aspects underpinning the recognition of states in international relations, international law, comparative politics, and international political theory. Although the recognition of states plays a central role […]

4. Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu (eds) (2019), Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo, London: Routledge. Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of liberal interventionism. This edited volume gives local scholars a platform from […]

3. Gëzim Visoka (2018), Acting Like a State: Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood, London: Routledge. How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing […]

2. Gëzim Visoka (2017), Shaping Peace in Kosovo: The Politics of Peacebuilding and Statehood,Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. This book explores the prospects and limits of international intervention in building peace and creating a new state in an ethnically divided society and fragmented international order. The book offers a critical account of the international missions in Kosovo and traces […]

1. Gëzim Visoka (2016), Peace Figuration after International Intervention: Intentions, Events and Consequences of Liberal Peacebuilding, London: Routledge. This book examines the adverse impacts of liberal peacebuilding in conflict-affected societies. It introduces ‘peace figuration’ as a new analytical framework for studying the intentionality, performativity, and consequences of liberal peacebuilding. The work challenges current theories and views and […]