Vjosa Musliu

• Doctor of Political Science
• Professor (Assistant) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

This volume consists of narratives of migrant academics from the Global South within academia in the Global North. The autobiographic and autoethnographic contributions to this collection aim to decolonise the discourse around academic mobility by highlighting experiences of precarity, resilience, care and solidarity in the academic margins. The au...

This collective discussion brings together six women scholars of and from the post-Yugoslav space, who, using personal experiences, analyze the dynamics of knowledge production in international relations (IR), especially regarding the post-Yugoslav space. Working in Global North academia but with lived experiences in the region we study, our resear...

This book provides a critical understanding of Europeanization and statebuilding in the Western Balkans, using the notion of everyday practices. This volume argues that it is everyday and mundane events which provide the entry points to showcase a broader set of practices of Europeanization in countries outside the EU. It does this by tracing noti...

Analysing the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) this chapter shows how deconstruction, as used by Jacques Derrida, can offer a fundamental critique to CSDP missions. Since its deployment in 2009, EULEX has explained its status along two dimensions. One, its mission was to "monitor, mentor and advise" local authorities in Kosovo t...

Deconstruction, or as Derrida calls it “intervention,” “de-totalizes self-enclosed totalities by placing them face to face with their internal differentiation” enabling us to see the partiality of the partial, to show that no absolute reading is possible (Derrida 2005). Even though Derrida himself never dealt with international interventions direct...

Using the concepts of spectres, liminality and aporia as conceptualised by Jacques Derrida, this article offers a critical read to Kosovo’s conundrums with its sovereignty. The main argument of this article is that in the system of sovereign states, Kosovo is permanently entangled in an aporetic situation in that it has to coexist between being a r...

This book explores a fundamental question: can the local speak, and if so, what does it say about international statebuilding? The added value of promoting local voices is that it pluralises our knowledge about statebuilding and brings in geo-epistemological positionalities, which are aspects overlooked in peace and conflict studies. The book is dr...

Drawing on EU-Kosovo relations, this chapter problematises the limits of the concept of hospitality and shows how a different form of hospitality, articulated from a performative perspective, is possible. While the EU’s hospitality is highly conditional and, ultimately, with its policy on visas, moves towards overt hostility (towards Kosovans), Kos...

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 abstractlabyrinth of knowledge without much perceptive and social attachment to the real world of statebuilding. Contrary to this, chapters in this book have used situated knowled...

Global efforts to rebuild societies ruined by violent conflict are influenced first and foremost by the type of knowledge produced for and about these societies. Since the inception of statebuilding studies as a scholarly field, knowledge production for conflict-affected societies has been based predominantly on Western epistemologies –which are sh...

This article examines how the Maidan protests of 2013-2014 were a space for the collision of conflicting narratives on what Ukraine is and what it should be, and how past, present and future were used to imagine contemporary Ukraine. Making use of speech acts by local and international actors and politicians on the Ukraine crisis, historical narrat...

The EU-facilitated dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina has been hailed as a major achieve- ment for the European Union’s (EU) foreign policy as well as for the ‘European future’ of Kosovo and Serbia, since it started in 2011. Looking at EU discourse – speeches, statements and press releases – this article problematizes the logic of the dialogue,...

This article draws upon Derridean philosophy to argue for a more holistic understanding of sovereignty, a reading of the concept that alternatively envisages sovereignty as home, is prone to normativity, and bestows sovereignty with an ethical perspective. The first section deconstructs the aporetic tensions within sovereignty with the aid of Derri...

This article draws upon Derridean philosophy to argue for a more holistic understanding of sovereignty, a reading of the concept that alternatively envisages sovereignty as home, is prone to normativity, and bestows sovereignty with an ethical perspective. The first section shows how scholarly efforts to approach sovereignty, the English School of...

This article explains how the international project for building multi-ethnic democracy in Kosovo undermines itself by effectively opposing the very concept of democracy. Derrida explained this with ‘autoimmunity’, a term which describes the failed attempt of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, leading to an immune response...

This article discusses to what extent meanings and discourses on 'EU mem-bership' on the one hand and on the 'Balkans' on the other, have shifted within Western Balkan countries in the past few years as a result of financial crisis in the European Union. Focusing on Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina, the article uses Derrida's deconstruction to pro...

This article: Problematizes the concept of ‘home’ and ‘hospitality’ in the case of unfinished states in terms of sovereignty. Argues that the concept of home is always preconditioned by the differences of host and guest; in cases where these two are intermingled/confused/unclear, the concept of home changes too. Looks at local and international nar...

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This chapter elaborates on the interplay of arguments on Kosovo as a failed state on the one hand, and as a success story on the other. Embarking with deconstruction as used and conceptualized by Jacques Derrida, this chapter situates the debate of ‘failed states’ in the case of Kosovo and argues its conceptualization from political, legal and ideo...

This thesis offers a Derridean perspective to the notion of international interventions and missions by focusing on the case of Kosovo. It argues on a reconceptualization of ethics as foreign policy, interrogating questions of how to rethink ethics as justice and how to rethink the notion of (non)intervention. The structure is built around four...

This article problematizes the concept of 'mission' in international interventions, who is entitled to missionize and how the missionized subject is conceptualized. By looking at the international missions in Kosovo (those of the UN and particularly the EU), we problematize how the EU mission in Kosovo is entrenched in a trajectory of 'missionizing...

Hailed as the greatest European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) mission to date, the European Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX) has been oscillating between fulfilling its mission statement crafted in Brussels, while managing the controversial ethnic expectations of the local population in Kosovo. Because of its imposed “status neutral,” in...

Josip Glaurdic " Európa órája: Nyugati hatalmak és Jugoszlávia felbomlása " címő könyve kezdetben egy olyan olvasmányra invitál, amelyben az Európai Unió szerepét vizsgálja a föderáció felbomlásának tekintetében. " Ez Európa órája… " – egy az Európai Tanács külügyi tanácsának korábbi elnöke, Jacques Poos által említett mondat a korábbi, válság szél...

Titulli i librit " Ora e Evropës: Fuqitë perëndimore dhe shpërbërja e Jugosllavisë " nga Josip Glaurdiq, në dukje të parë fton për një analizë të rolit të BE-së gjatë shpërbërjes së federatës jugosllave. " Kjo është ora e evropianëve… " , fjali kjo e përmendur nga ish kryesuesi i Komisionit Evropian, Jacques Poos në vigjilje tëkrizës në ish-Jugosll...

Naslov " Čas Europe " : Zapadne sile i raspad Jugoslavije " Josipa Glaudrića poziva na razmatranje uticaja Europske Unije na raspad sada već bivše Jugoslavije. " Ovo je čas Europe … "-rečenica koju je spomenuo bivši direktor Ekonomskog vijeća za vanjske poslove, Jaques Poos, na rubu krize u bivšoj Jugoslaviji-je postala fraza koja simbolizuje ironi...

The EU’s relationship to Kosovo is based on a post-con- flict agenda, from which the development of democracy is prioritised. Yet, the EU’s mission agenda in Kosovo is incoherent and there is a clear gap between what the EU’s discourse propagates and what it actually implements (in terms of funding and financial allocation). This work explains the EU...