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Senior Lecturer in Global Politics
Email: d.kostovicova@lse.ac.uk|
Office: CON4.15, Connaught House
Office Hours: Wed 9:00-11:00am
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6916
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Biography
Dr Denisa Kostovicova is a Senior Lecturer in Global Politics at the Government Department and a Research Fellow at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has a PhD and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MA from Central European University, Czech Republic. She was also educated at the University of Maine, US, and Belgrade University, Serbia. She held Junior Research Fellowships at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Linacre College, Oxford. Dr Kostovicova has participated in a number of international research projects, such as the European Study Group on Europe's Security Capabilities, convened by Professor Mary Kaldor at the invitation of Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief (2004-2008); the EU's Seventh Framework Project, 'Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Role of the European Union' (2008-2010), and 2010-2011, 'Networks of Regressive Globalisation and Challenges to International Assistance' funded by Agence Française de Développement (2010-2011). Dr Kostovicova's research interests include nationalism and democratisation in the global age, post-conflict reconstruction and security, civil society and human security, war crimes and transitional justice, and European integration of Western Balkans. She is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge 2005) and co-editor of Transnationalism in the Balkans(Routledge 2008), Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Ashgate 2009) and Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan 2011).
Research Interests
Democratisation and ethnic conflict; Nationalism and globalisation; Post-conflict reconstruction; Human security; Civil society and transitional justice; European integration of Western Balkans.
Teaching Responsibilities
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GV4A4 From Empire to Globalization
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GV4C2 Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Totalitarianism
Featured Book
Bottom-Up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization
The writing out of agency from the study of globalization resulted in its portrayal as an uncontrollable, unstoppable and unchangeable force. Ordinary people have been conceptualized as victims or beneficiaries. Alternatively, grassroots activism has been romantically portrayed as an unproblematic force for good. Inspired by the work of Mary Kaldor on global civil society and new wars, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics as the state loses its dominance as a political actor in the global era. Leading theorists such as Albrow, Falk, Held, Rothschild and Sassen, together with young scholars demonstrate the importance of agency to our understanding of globalization.
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Publications
2011
Kostovicova, Denisa and Glasius, Marlies (2011) Introduction: Bottom-up politics: an agency-centred approach to globalization. In: Bottom-up politics : an agency-centred approach to globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 1-17. ISBN 9780230280328
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2011) External statebuilding and transnational networks: The limits of the civil society approach. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Glasius, Marlies, (eds.) Bottom-up politics : an agency-centred approach to globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 93-111. ISBN 9780230280328
Kostovicova, Denisa and Glasius, Marlies (2011) Bottom-up politics: an agency-centred approach to globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780230280328
2010
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2010) Human security in a weak state in the Balkans: globalization and transnational networks. In: Benedek, Wolfgang and Daase, Christopher and Dimitrijević , Vojin and van Duyne , Petrus , (eds.) Transnational terrorism, organized crime and peace-building: human security in the Western Balkans . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, pp. 38-53. ISBN 9780230234628
Kostovicova, Denisa (2010) Civil society in the Western Balkans: vehicle for or obstacle to transitional justice. In: Petritsch , Wolfgang and Dzihic , Vedran , (eds.) Conflict and memory: bridging past and future in (South East) Europe. Nomos, Baden-Baden, Germany, pp. 287-294. ISBN 9783832948795
Kostovicova, Denisa (2010) Civil society in post-conflict scenarios. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Toepler, Stefan , (eds.) International encyclopedia of civil society . Springer, New York, USA, pp. 371-376. ISBN 9780387939940
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2010) The big question: how can nations break the cycle of crime and corruption? World policy journal, 27 (1). pp. 3-6. ISSN 0740-2775
2009
Kostovicova, Denisa (2009) Albanian parallel education system and its aftermath: segregation, identity and governance. In: Dimou, Augusta, (ed.) 'Transition' and the politics of history education in Southeast Europe. Vanderhoeck und Ruprecht, Goettingen, Germany, pp. 201-215. ISBN 9783899715316
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2009) Conclusion: persistent state weakness and issues for research, methodology and policy. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Persistent state weakness in the global age. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 197-205. ISBN 9780754676126
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2009) Introduction: state weakening and globalization. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Persistent state weakness in the global age. Ashgate, Aldershot, UK, pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780754676126
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2009) Introduction: persistent state weakness in the global age. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Persistent state weakness in the global age . Ashgate, Surrey, UK, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9780754676126
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2009) Conclusion: persistent state weakness in the global age. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Persistent state weakness in the global age . Ashgate, Surrey, UK, pp. 197-206. ISBN 9780754676126
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) (2009) Persistent state weakness in the global age. Ashgate, Surrey, UK. ISBN 9780754676126
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna and Kandic, Natasa (2009) Introduction: Forum for Transitional Justice, special issue: European Union and transitional justice: from retributive to restorative justice in Western Balkans. Forum for transitional justice , 3 ISSN 1452-871
Kostovicova, Denisa (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, 3 pp. 81-83. ISSN 1452-871
2008
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Legitimacy and international administration: the Ahtisaari settlement for Kosovo from a human security perspective. International peacekeeping, 15 (5). pp. 631-647. ISSN 1353-3312
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) State weakness in the western Balkans as a security threat: the European Union approach and a global perspective. Western Balkans security observer, 2007-2 (7-8). pp. 10-15. ISSN 1452-6115
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2008) Transnationalism in the Balkans. Routledge, London, UK; New York, USA. ISBN 9780415464468
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Albanian diasporas and their political roles. In: Batt, Judy, (ed.) Is there an Albanian question?. European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris, France, pp. 73-86. ISBN 9789291981205
Glasius, Marlies and Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) The European Union as a state-builder: policies towards Serbia and Sri Lanka. Südosteuropa, 56 (1). pp. 84-114. ISSN 0722-480X
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Comparing the Balkans: war legacies and state-building in the age of globalisation - special issue, edited by D. Kostovicova. Südosteuropa, 56 (1). pp. 1-160. ISSN 0722-480X
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Serbian elections: who has actually won and what does this mean for the EU? EU Institute for Security Studies , Paris, France
Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Introduction. Südosteuropa, 56 (1). pp. 1-7. ISSN 0722-480X
Kaldor, Mary and Kostovicova, Denisa (2008) Global civil society and illiberal regimes. In: Albrow, Martin and Anheier, Helmut K. and Glasius, Marlies and Price, Monroe E., (eds.) Global civil society 2007/8: communicative power and democracy. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 86-113. ISBN 9781412948005
2007
Kostovicova, Denisa (2007) European zones of human security: a proposal for the European Union. The Study Group on Human Security, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK
Kaldor, Mary and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna and Kostovicova, Denisa, (eds.) (2007) Social science in South East Europe syllabus handbook. Centar za obrazovne politike, Beograd, Serbia and Montenegro. ISBN 9788684151256
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna and Martin, Mary (2007) Civil society's role in advancing human security: European Union policies in the Western Balkans. Südosteuropa Mitteilungen, (01/200). pp. 20-33. ISSN 0340-174X
2006
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2006) Europeanizing the Balkans: rethinking the post-communist and post-conflict transition. Ethnopolitics, 5 (3). pp. 223-241. ISSN 1744-9057
Kostovicova, Denisa (2006) Civil society and post-communist democratization: facing a double challenge in post-Milošević Serbia. Journal of civil society, 2 (1). pp. 21-37. ISSN 1744-8689
Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna and Kostovicova, Denisa (2006) The Balkans in globalization's throes: examining the transnational quality of the region's problems. Internationale politik, 7 (2). pp. 92-97. ISSN 1430-175X
Kaldor, Mary and Kostovicova, Denisa and Said, Yahia (2006) War and peace: the role of global civil society. In: Anheier, Helmut K. and Kaldor, Mary and Glasius, Marlies, (eds.) Global civil society 2006/7. SAGE, London, UK, pp. 94-119. ISBN 9781412934350
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) (2006) Austrian presidency of the EU: regional approaches to the Balkans. Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Centre for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, Vienna, Austria. ISBN 9783854640301
Kostovicova, Denisa (2006) EU and the challenges of the weak state in the Balkans. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Austrian presidency of the EU: regional approaches to the Balkans. Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Centre for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, Vienna, Austria, pp. 140-148. ISBN 9783854640301
Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna (2006) Introduction: Austrian presidency of the EU: regional approaches to the Balkans. In: Kostovicova, Denisa and Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Vesna, (eds.) Austrian presidency of the EU: regional approaches to the Balkans. Centre for the Study of Global Governance and Centre for European Integration Strategies in cooperation with the Renner Institute, Vienna, Austria, pp. 17-23. ISBN 9783854640301
2005
Kostovicova, Denisa (2005) Kosovo's unresolved status. Development & transition, (02/200). pp. 19-20.
Kostovicova, Denisa (2005) Old and new insecurity in the Balkans: lessons from the EU's involvement in Macedonia. In: Glasius, Marlies and Kaldor, Mary, (eds.) A human security doctrine for Europe: project, principles, practicalities. Routledge, Oxon, UK; New York, USA, pp. 43-70. ISBN 9780415367455
Kostovicova, Denisa (2005) Kosovo: the politics of identity and space. Routledge, Oxon, UK. ISBN 9780415348065
Kostovicova, Denisa (2005) Post-socialist identity, territoriality and European integration: Serbia's return to Europe after Milošević. Geojournal, 61 (1). pp. 23-30. ISSN 0343-2521
2004
Kostovicova, Denisa (2004) Republika Srpska and its boundaries in Bosnian Serb geographic narratives in the post-Dayton period. Space & polity, 8 (3). pp. 267-287. ISSN 1356-2576
Kostovicova, Denisa (2004) Serbia's democratisation and the resolution of the Kosovo dispute. In: Fatić, Aleksandar, (ed.) Security in Southeastern Europe. Security Policy Group, Beograd, Serbia and Montenegro, pp. 163-188. ISBN 9788683289042
2003
Kostovicova, Denisa and Prestreshi, Albert (2003) Education, gender and religion: identity transformations of Kosovo Albanians in London. Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 29 (6). pp. 1079-1096. ISSN 1369-183X
Kostovicova, Denisa (2003) The Albanians in Great Britain: diasporic identity and experience in the educational perspective since 1990. Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, 5 (1). pp. 53-69. ISSN 1944-8953
Kostovicova, Denisa (2003) Secret schools in Kosovo: between civic action and legal void(s). In: Kaldor, Mary, (ed.) Global civil society 2003. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 222-223. ISBN 9780199266555
2002
Kostovicova, Denisa (2002) The portrayal of the yoke: the Ottomans and their rule in the post-1990 Albanian-language history textbooks. Internationale Schulbuchforschung, 24 (3). ISSN 0172-8237
Kostovicova, Denisa (2002) 'Shkolla shqipe' and nationhood: Albanians in pursuit of education in the native language in interwar (1918-41) and post-autonomy (1989-98) Kosovo. In: Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie and Fischer, Bernd Jürgen, (eds.) Albanian identities: myth and history. C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers), London, UK, pp. 157-171. ISBN 9781850655725
2001
Kostovicova, Denisa (2001) Albanian schooling in Kosovo 1992-1998: 'liberty imprisoned'. In: Drezov, Kyril and Gokay, Bulent and Waller, Michael, (eds.) Kosovo: the politics of delusion. Frank Cass Publishers, London, UK; Portland, OR USA, pp. 11-19. ISBN 9780714651576
2000
Kostovicova, Denisa (2000) Kosovo's parallel society: the successes and failures of nonviolence. In: Buckley, William Joseph, (ed.) Kosovo: contending voices on Balkan interventions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; Cambridge, UK, pp. 142-148. ISBN 9780802838896
1999
Drezov, Kyril and Gokay, Bulent and Kostovicova, Denisa, (eds.) (1999) Kosovo: myths, conflict and war. Keele European Research Centre, Keele University, Staffordshire, UK. ISBN 9781899488216