Books:
Denisa Kostovicova, (Cornell University Press, 2023), Available open access.
Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (London and New York: Routledge, 2005)
Co-edited volumes:
Rethinking Reconciliation and Transitional Justice After Conflict (with James Hughes) (Routledge, 2018)
Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and James Ker-Lindsay) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
‘Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalisation (with Marlies Glasius) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic)(Aldershot: Ashgate 2009).
Transnationalism in the Balkans(with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic),(London and New York: Routledge, 2008) (originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics).
Social Science in South East Europe Syllabus Handbook/ Zbirka nastavnih planova i programa za studije drustvenih nauka u jugoistocnoj Evropi (co-edited with Mary Kaldor and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) (Beograd: Centar za obrazovne politike, 2007).
Austrian Presidency of the EU: Regional Approaches to the Balkans (co-edited with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) (Vienna: Centre for the Study of Global Governance and The Center for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, 2006).
Kosovo: Myths, Conflict and War (co-edited with Bulent Gokay and Kyril Drezov) (Keele: Keele European Research Centre, 1999).
Articles:
Ivor Sokolić, Denisa Kostovicova, Lanabi La Lova and Sanja Vico, ‘Are Domestic War Crimes Trials Biased?’, Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming.
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova and Fikret Causevic, ‘,’ Conflict, Security & Development (2024), 1-26.
Denisa Kostovicova, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2024), 1-21.
Denisa Kostovicova and Lanabi La Lova, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (2024), 1-22.
Eleanor Knott and Denisa Kostovicova, American Political Science Review (2024): 1-18.
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Popovski, ‘.’ Review of International Studies (2023): 1-20.
Denisa Kostovicova et al., Comparative South East European Studies, 70(1) 2022: 24-46.
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova and Ahmet K. Suerdem, “ Journal of International Relations and Development 25 2022: 182-209.
Denisa Kostovicova and Eleanor Knott, Qualitative Research 22(1) 2022: 56-73.
Denisa Kostovicova and Tom Paskhalis, International Studies Quarterly, 65(2) 2021: 263-276.
Vjollca Krasniqi, Ivor Sokolic and Denisa Kostovicova, Nations and Nationalism, 26(2) 2020: 461-476.
Denisa Kostovicova, Ivor Sokolic and Orli Fridman, Nations and Nationalism 26(2) 2020: 424-430.
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Marsha Henry, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 22(2) 2020: 250-272.
Denisa Kostovicova, Journal of Global Security Studies 4(2) 2019: 273–278.
Denisa Kostovicova and Aude Bicquelet, Ethnic and Racial Studies 41(4) 2017: 681-700.
Denisa Kostovicova, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 11(1) 2017: 154–175.
Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, Kostovicova, Denisa, Escobar, Mariana and Bjelica, Jelena (2015) ‘Organised Crime and International Aid Subversion: Evidence from Colombia and Afghanistan, Third World Quarterly 36 (10), 1887-1905.
Denisa Kostovicova (2014), ‘When Enlargement meets Common Foreign and Security Policy: Serbia’s Europeanisation, Visa Liberalisation and the Kosovo Policy’, Europe-Asia Studies 66(1), 67-87.
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova (2013), ‘Europeanisation and Conflict Networks: Private Sector Development in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina’, East European Politics 29(2), 19-35.
Susan L. Woodward, Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (2012), ‘Introduction: Methodology and the Study of State-Building in the Western Balkans’, Südosteuropa, 60(4), 469-471.
Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova (2012), ‘Locating Power in State-Building: The Conflict Network Perspective’, Südosteuropa 60(4), 591-602.
Denisa Kostovicova, Mary Martin and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (2012), ‘The Missing Link in Human Security Research: Dialogue and Insecurity in Kosovo’, Security Dialogue 43(6), 569-585.
Denisa Kostovicova (2008), ‘Legitimacy and international administration: The Ahtisaari settlement for Kosovo from a Human Security perspective’, International Peacekeeping 15(5), 631-647.
Denisa Kostovicova (2008), ‘Introduction’, Südosteuropa, Special Issue: Comparing the Balkans: War Legacies and State-Building in the Age of Globalisation, 56(1), 1-7.
Denisa Kostovicova and Marlies Glasius (2008), ‘The European Union as a state-builder: Policies towards Serbia and Sri Lanka’, Südosteuropa 56(1), 84-114.
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Mary Martin (2007), ‘Civil society’s role in advancing human security: European Union policies in the Western Balkans,’ Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, 47(1), 20-33.
Denisa Kostovicova (2006), ‘Civil society and post-Communist democratization: facing a double challenge in post-Milošević Serbia’, Journal of Civil Society 2(1), 21-37.
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (2006), ‘Europeanizing the Balkans: Rethinking the post-communist and post-conflict transition‘, Ethnopolitics 5(3), 223-241.
Denisa Kostovicova (2004), ‘Post-socialist identity, territoriality and European integration: Serbia’s return to Europe after Milosevic’, GeoJournal 61(1), 23-30.
Denisa Kostovicova (2004), ‘Republika Srpska and its boundaries in Bosnian Serb geographic narratives in the post-Dayton Period’, Space & Polity 8(3), 267-287.
Denisa Kostovicova (2003), ‘The Albanians in Great Britain: diasporic identity and experience in the educational perspective’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 5(1), 53-69.
Denisa Kostovicova (2003), ‘Education, gender and religion: identity transformations among Kosovo Albanians in London’ (with Albert Prestreshi), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 29(6), 1079-1096.
Denisa Kostovicova (2002), ‘The portrayal of the yoke: the Ottomans and their rule in the post-1990 Albanian-language history textbooks’, Internationale Schulbuchforschung-International Textbook Research 24(3), 257-278.
Book chapters:
‘Civil Society in post-Yugoslav Space: The Test of Discontinuity and Democratization, (with Ivor Sokolic and Adam Fagan), in The Legacy of Yugoslavia Politics, Economics and Society in the Modern Balkans,Othon Anastasakis et al. (Eds). (London: IB Taurus, 2020).
‘Global Civil Society, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding’ (with Mary Kaldor) in The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding and Peace Formation, Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka (Eds). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
‘European Union in the Western Balkans: Hybrid Development, Hybrid Security and Hybrid
Justice’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Elisa Randazzo), in Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov, eds. From Hybrid Peace to Human Security. (Abindgon: Routledge, 2018)
Ethnicity Pays: The Political Economy of Post-Conflict Nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic), in Bill Kissane (ed.) After Civil War: Division, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Europe. (Pennsylvania University Press, 2014).
‘State-building, nation-building and reconstruction’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and David Rampton) in Global Security Handbook, Mary Kaldor and Iavor Rangelov (eds) (Wiley Blackwell, 2014).
‘From Concept to Method: The Challenge of a Human Security Methodology’ (with Mary Martin) Handbook of Human Security, Mary Martin and Taylor Owen (eds) (New York and London: Routledge, 2014).
Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo’ in Timothy William Waters (ed.) The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, ‘Introduction: Civil Society and Multiple Transitions – Meanings, Actors and Effects’ in Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, James Ker-Lindsay and Denisa Kostovicova (eds) Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
‘Introduction: Agency in Bottom-up Politics’ (with Marlies Glasius) in Denisa Kostovicova and Marlies Glasius (eds) Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
'External Statebuilding and Transnational Networks: The Limits of the Civil Society Approach' (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) in Denisa Kostovicova and Marlies Glasius (eds) Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
‘Civil Society in the Western Balkans: Vehicle for or obstacle to transitional justice’, in Wolfgang Petritsch and Vedran Dzihic (eds), Conflict and Memory: Bridging Past and Future in | South East | Europe, (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft | Southeast European Integration Perspectives, vol. 3, 2010), pp. 287-294.
‘Human security in a weak state in the Balkans: Globalization and transnational networks’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) in Wolfgang Benedek, Petrus van Duyne, Christopher Daase and Vojin Dimitrijevic (eds.), Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime, and Peace-Building: The State of the Art in Human Security in the Western Balkans (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 38-53.
‘Civil society in post-conflict scenarios’ in Helmut Anheier and Stefan Toepfler (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society (New York: Springer, 2010), pp. 371-376.
‘Introduction: State Weakening and Globalization’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) in Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (eds), Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 1-16.
‘Conclusion: Persistent State Weakness and Issues for Research, Methodology and Policy’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic), in Kostovicova, Denisa and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (eds) Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), pp. 197-205.
‘The European Union as state-builder: Policies towards Serbia and Sri Lanka’ (with Marlies Glasius) in Julia Raue and Patrick Sutter (eds), Facets and Practices of State-Building (Leijden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009), pp. 127-153 (expanded and updated article published in Suedosteuropa, 56(1), 2008).
‘Albanian parallel education system and its aftermath: Segregation, identity and governance’ in Augusta Dimou (ed.), "Transition" and the Politics of History Education in Southeast Europe (Goettingen: Vanderhoeck und Ruprecht, 2009), pp. 201-215.
‘Opening up of illiberal regimes’ (with Mary Kaldor) in Mary Kaldor et al. (eds) Global Civil Society 2007/8 (London: Sage, 2007), pp. 86-113.
‘EU and the challenges of the weak state in the Balkans’ in Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (eds), Austrian Presidency of the EU: Regional Approaches to the Balkans (Vienna: Centre for the Study of Global Governance and The Center for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, 2006), pp. 140-148.
‘Introduction’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic) in Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (eds), Austrian Presidency of the EU: Regional Approaches to the Balkans (Vienna: Centre for the Study of Global Governance and The Center for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, 2006), pp. 17-23.
‘War and peace: The role of global civil society’ (with Mary Kaldor and Yahia Said) in Mary Kaldor et al. (eds) Global Civil Society 2006/7 (London: Sage, 2006), pp. 94-119.
‘Old and new insecurity in the Balkans: Learning from the EU’s involvement in Macedonia’ in A Human Security Doctrine for Europe: Project, Principles, Practicalities, Marlies Glasius and Mary Kaldor (eds) (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 43-70.
‘Serbia’s democratization and the resolution of the Kosovo dispute’ in Security in Southeastern Europe, ed. Aleksandar Fatic (Beograd: Security Policy Group, The Management Centre, 2004), pp. 163-188.
‘Secret schools in Kosovo: between civic action and legal void(s)’ in Global Civil Society 2003, Mary Kaldor, Helmut Anheier and Marlies Glasius (eds) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 222-223.
‘Shkolla shqipe and nationhood: Albanians’ pursuit of education in the native language in interwar (1918-1941) and post-autonomy (1989-1998) Kosovo) in Albanian Identities: Myth, Narratives and Politics, Stephanie Schwandner Sievers and Bernd Fischer (eds) (London: Hurst & Co., 2002), pp. 157-171.
‘Albanian schooling in Kosovo 1992-1998: ‘Liberty Imprisoned’” in Kosovo: The Politics of Delusion, Michael Waller et al. (eds) (London and Portland, Or: Frank Cass, 2001), pp. 11-19.
‘Kosovo’s parallel society: the successes and failures of non-violence’ in Kosovo: Contending Voices on Balkan Interventions, William Joseph Buckley (ed.) (Grand Rapids, Michigan/ Cambridge, UK: Eerdmand Publishing Co., 2000), pp. 142-148.
‘The Kosovo Educational System’ (with Shkelzen Maliqi) in Southeast Europe Educational Initiatives and Co-operations for Peace, Mutual Understanding, Tolerance and Democracy (Graz: Center for the Study of Balkan Societies and Cultures, 1998), pp. 133-140.
Blogs:
, Cornell Blog, 24 May 2023
, EUROPP Blog, 7 March 2023
(with Rachel Kerr), EUROPP blog, 13 May 2022
We Need a Regional Approach to Justice after Mass Atrocity, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research for the World, 12 May 2022
(with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Marsha Henry, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 10 February 2020
(with Ivor Sokolic, Tom Paskhalis and artist Nela Milic), ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Government Blog, 28 November 2018
, EUROPP Blog, 20 July 2018
(with Ivor Sokolic). ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Government Blog, 22 March 2018
, EUROPP Blog, 22 November 2017
, EUROPP Blog, 5 July 2016
, EUROPP Blog, 24 June 2016
, EUROPP Blog, 24 March 2016
. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Government Blog, 24 March 2016
. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Government Blog, 02 Mar 2016
, Government Department Blog, 18 February 2016
. Government Department at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Blog, 6 May 2015
. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog, 11 February 2015
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ EUROPP Blog, 27 Mar 2014
. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ EUROPP Blog, 11 February 2014 Blog Entry,
. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ EUROPP Blog, 30 July 2012
. EUROPP Blog, 5 March 2012
Policy analysis, commentary and op-eds:
ERC JUSTINT Policy Paper ‘Inter- and intra-ethnic dialogues on war-time violence and its legacies’ with Ivor Sokolic and Sanja Vico, 19 October 2023.
Denisa Kostovicova (2016) ‘Brexit’s twin risks for the Balkans’, Europe’s World, Autumn, pp.70-71
Denisa Kostovicova (2016) ‘EU in the Western Balkans: Hybrid Development, Hybrid Security and Hybrid Justice’ (with Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Elisa Randazzo, in: ‘From Hybrid Peace to Human Security: Rethinking EU Strategy towards Conflict’, The Berlin Report of the Human Security Study Group (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, ERC, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: London, 2016), Presented to the European External Action Service, 24 February 2016, Brussels (The report is available at: )
Denisa Kostovicova (2013) ‘Civil Society and Reconciliation in the Western Balkans: Great Expectation?’ in Eviola Prifti (ed.) ‘The European Future of the Western Balkans: Thessaloniki@10 (2003-2013)’ (European Union Institute for Security Studies: Paris), pp. 101-107; ISBN 978-92-9198-226-4; doi:10.2815/33026 link: http://www.iss.europa.eu/uploads/media/Thessalonikiat10.pdf
Mary Martin, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Denisa Kostovicova, Anne Wittman, Stefanie Moser (2012), ‘, Policy Paper, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, June.
Denisa Kostovicova (2012) Civil Society and Restorative Justice in the Western Balkans: From Symbolic Politics to State Consolidation’, Forum for Transitional Justice, No. 4 (December), pp. 75-77.
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (2010) ‘Weak States, The Big Question: How Can Nations Break the Cycle of Crime and Corruption’, World Policy Journal, Volume 27, Number 1, Spring 2010, pp. 5-6.
Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Natasa Kandic (2009) ‘Introduction’, Forum for Transitional Justice, Special Issue: European Union and Transitional Justice: From Retributive to Restorative Justice in Western Balkans, Vol. 3, pp. 75-78.
Denisa Kostovicova (2009) ‘Balkan wars, European Integration and Hague Conditionality’, Forum for Transitional Justice, Special Issue: European Union and Transitional Justice: From Retributive to Restorative Justice in Western Balkans, Vol. 3, pp. 81-83.
Denisa Kostovicova (2008) in Judy Batt (ed.) Is There an Albanian Question?, Chaillot Paper, No. 107, January, pp. 73-86.
Denisa Kostovicova (2008) ‘ Opinion - n°0, February, Balkan Crisis Room, European Union: Institute for Security Studies, Paris.
Denisa Kostovicova (2007) The Study Group on Human Security, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, February.
Denisa Kostovicova (2007-8) ‘State weakness in the Western Balkans as a security threat: The European Union approach and a global perspective’, Western Balkans Security Observer, No.7-8, pp. 10-15.
Denisa Kostovicova and Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic (2006) ‘The Balkans in globalization’s throes’, Internationale Politik, 7(2), pp. 92-97.
Denisa Kostovicova (2005) ‘Kosovo’s unresolved status’, Development & Transition, Issue 2, pp. 19-20.
Denisa Kostovicova and Natalija Basic (2004) ‘Conference Report: Transnationalism in the Balkans: The emergence, nature and impact of cross-national linkages on an enlarged and enlarging Europe, 26–27 November, Contemporary European History, 14(4), pp. 583- 590.
Denisa Kostovicova (2004), ‘, Human Security Report Publications, 2004.
Denisa Kostovicova and Dimitar Becev (2004) Kosovo: Successes and Failures of International Civil and Military Involvement. Debate held at the European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, 30 March. South East Europe Series, Discussion Report, DP31. Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Denisa Kostovicova (2004) ‘, South East Europe Textbook Network.