Vjosa Musliu
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Assistant Professor of International Relations at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) | Co-editor @InRoutledge
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Our edited volume w/
@FitoreMag
"Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding in Kosovo. The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo" was chosen to go Open Access even before the publication date!
Link to read and download the book for free 👇🏽
#Kosovo
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22yrs ago, Lona and I were sleeping in a tiny basement hiding from the Serbian military. Today I ran into her in her connecting flight from US. To little Drina who kept asking: why are you both crying?, she replied: because we were not supposed to be...here!
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Autumn, Kosovo and its hauntingly beautiful mountains are our very own trinity.
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“12 Angry Men. Masculinity, patriarchy & colonial traces in ‘peace agreements’”. If anyone is looking for book ideas and such...
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Thrilled to announce that I will start my tenure-track position at
@VUBrussel
starting from October.
@POLI_VUB
you are one fantastic team and I am happy I will continue working with every one of you! But first, bubbles and a party of three with some
@DUALIPA
tunes!
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Today in Brussels: “EU’s appeasement has only emboldened Vucic and his proxies to incite more violence and instability in Kosovo”.
Grateful to the student associations in Brussels and the (young) Kosovo women for doing the heavy lifting to make this happen.
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Yet again, my parents (in🇽🇰) celebrate our daughter's bday (in🇧🇪) via FaceTime. There are no EU-visas and not even visa appointments for🇽🇰citizens. The degree of racism, breach of legal acts & human dignity normalized in visa centres of EU countries is unfathomable.
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My book 'Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices' w/
@InRoutledge
is ready to preorder, paperback & hardcover.
I follow everyday practices to understand how Europe is performed and fantasized in the countries of the Western Balkans. 1/2
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🧵 June 1999. Gjilan. Kosovo.
This is Lt. John Marcinek greeted by fellow Albanians after NATO entered in Kosovo ending the war. It was the happiest day of my life.
Michael Williamson of
@washingtonpost
won a Pulitzer with this picture
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Saturday, October 7, 16:30 we will be protesting at Place du Luxemburg in Brussels against Serbia’s threat and attack against Kosovo and EU’s unconscionable silence.
Join us in Brussels & feel free to reach out for more info.
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It’s a good day folks. Restaurants are open and my husband wants to become a photographer.
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We need to talk about Serbia!
My take for
@kosovo2point0
on the curious case of the EU frontrunner - Serbia, its pro-Kremlin decade and EU’s unconscionable silence.
On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, the front pages of government-affiliated newspapers in Serbia announced that Ukraine had attacked Russia.
When will the EU hold the Serbian government to account,
@VjosaMusliu
asks.
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So excited to share our first article with the 'Yugoslawomen+ Collective'. 'The current migrant is asked to cast aside the reasons that brought her to our gates, and instead entertain the Western imagination of her worth to Western society.'
#Yugosplaining
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Book proofs are here.
“Feminist encounters of statebuilding in Kosovo” co-edited w
@FitoreMag
will be published in spring 2024 with
@InRoutledge
.
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Oh, "Nick" from Connecticut, may our wars get y'all tenure and fill your lives with moving experiences.
By Selma Asotić
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This weekend: Gjilan Theatre wins Kontrapunkt Theatre Festival in 🇵🇱 and Siparantum Choir (Peja) wins a European Choir Festival in 🇧🇪. It took these Kosovan artists an arm & a leg & a violation of every shred of their human identity to get their 7 day Schengen visas to compete.
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Current President of Serbia isn't only the apprentice of Milosevic. The police brutality in Belgrade is the same as the one against protesters in Kosovo in the 1990s. So is the public broadcaster not reoprting on it. Only difference: this is against its 'own' citizens now
Kakva je ovo sramota! Zauvek obrukali srpsku uniformu! Zauvek!
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Brief thoughts on Kosovo.
1. Both-sideism has been the modus operandi of the international community in Kosovo from day 1 & has continuously legitimised (EU) interventionism.
Here it's exposed raw due West's insistence to appease Serbia & a continuous attempt at revisionism.
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The ousting of
#Kosovo
's gov is a classic intervention from above we have seen countless times in Latin America & elsewhere where the West has intervened. It shows again that international statebuilding will only favor democracy, if it suits its further interventionist agenda:
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Because
#Kosovo
is in the spotlight again, a kind reminder that
@gezimvisoka
& I published an edited book where local scholars deconstruct a myriad of topics of international & European interventions and statebuilding. And yes, the local can speak!
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If the horrendous developments of the past 5+yrs in the UK were to have happened *anywhere* in the ‘Global South’, I can only imagine the volumes of special issues & conference themes on “authoritarian/fascistic turn”. Amazing how certain places are exempted from such scrutiny.
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Very happy and proud that
@klajiqi75027
won the prestigious
@FWOVlaanderen
PhD mandate with her project “Feminist encounters of statebuilding in Kosovo”. Watch this space for more; Enduena is a powerhouse!
#proudsupervisor
#Kosovo
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Those who continue to turn a blind eye to the clear and ample evidence of what unfolded last week in Kosovo are the same who tolerated Milosevic in the 1990s and emboldened Vucic in the past 10 years.
But yes, it's Kosovo that remains sanctioned by the EU!
Pictured: The terrorists who carried out the attacks trained in Pasuljanske Livade, one of the Serbian Army's key bases, ~4 days before the attacks. Other exercises took place in the Kopaonik base. The attacks enjoyed the full support & planning of the Serbian state.
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My take for
@kosovo2point0
on why the🇽🇰-🇷🇸 recent developments are not about the license plates.
For Kosovo, sovereignty remains beyond reach, whereas for Serbia, Kosovo's sovereignty is beyond repair. With the EU dangerously oblivious in the region today, real lives at stake.
Kosovo is a place where the EU experiments with new forms of statebuilding, all without fully acknowledging Kosovo as a state.
@VjosaMusliu
writes on Kosovo, Serbia, the EU, and license plates.
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To everybody who keeps texting me: I am fine, luckily. I left the metro 5 minutes before the explosion!
#Brussels
#brusselsattaeck
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The Belgian visa office in Kosovo will not even allow my mom (a teacher in her mid-60s) to apply for a visa, before - wait for it - the Federal Asylum Office in Brussels approves her file first. The feds, we are told, will take 3-4 months to review her file.
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My students have been writing proposals for an 'EU peace deal for Kosovo and Serbia' as part of their assignments. I see more visions, strategies & knowledge (this is unfortunate) among recent graduates than I see at the 'facilitator'.
EEAS, our campus is only two stations away!
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Did you know that Borrell has more than once, explicitly & emphatically supported Serbia’s refusal to recognize Kosovo?
He also opposed the creation of the Kosovo Army & angrily attacked the IOC when they demanded Spain treat 🇽🇰 athletes as equals.
Here are the receipts. ⬇️
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Our daughter is telling the police officer, for the second time, that she will not get out of the pond until she finds her toy fish. Mind you, her sentences are a combination of Dutch, Albanian and Turkish. The police officer is standing there...waiting for the toy fish 🤩
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A lifetime ago, I met
@roxrodri
in sunny California who told me about Xhevdet Bajraj, a Kosovar poet based in Mexico. Here are are two of his great works translated in English. His poems cut deep for everyone whose freedoms and recognition are/were denied.
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Statement in solidarity with the Palestinian people by Yugoslawomen+ Collective
“The silence of many academic institutions is hypocritical at best and complicit in an unfolding genocide at worst.”
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This is going to be one exciting book. Atdhe did archival research in Prishtina, Tirana and Belgrade and the book is filled with raw and unearthed evidence. Also, a rare insight on how well developed was pre-war activism in Kosovo
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Shumë ndjenjë e mirë kur n'fund të një dite t'mbushun me ligjërata, vjen dikush n'fund të orës prej fundit të auditoriumit edhe thotë: profesoreshë, a bën veç një minut?😊 Përndryshe, në 6 vjet mësimdhënie, i kam pasë vetëm 2 studentë shqiptarë.
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My day got brighter when I saw not one but four varieties of Kosovo's finest wine in our most favorite restaurant in Gent!
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My book with
@InRoutledge
made it home! I talk about how Europe is performed & fantasized in: LGBT+ parades in Prishtina, Europe Day celebrations in Sarajevo, biking & yoga in Tirana & public space recreation in Skopje.
Available in hardcover & paperback
My book 'Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices' w/
@InRoutledge
is ready to preorder, paperback & hardcover.
I follow everyday practices to understand how Europe is performed and fantasized in the countries of the Western Balkans. 1/2
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Yet another one. 21 years after the war in Kosovo, mass graves with Albanians have been 'literally emerging from the woods' & lakes in Serbia. After killed in Kosovo in 1999, civilians were transported & buried in Serbia to hide the evidence. <1600 are still not found👇
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Under ‘special skills’ in my CV I will always have: I applied three times for a British visa and did not loose the will to live
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If an ethnic group commemorates air strikes as a recognition of its human & political agency, that says more about the regime they were under rather than the ethnic group itself.
March 24, 1999.
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I had a wonderful day talking about my book ‘at home’. Many thanks to
@nitaluci
for making this happen, the staff of the National Library of Kosovo ‘Pjetër Bogdani’ & all the lovely people who showed up today.
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Hana's work is impressive. Yet, I find this video of EEAS ironic to say the least. Kosovo's cutting edge creators & artists are the only 'Europeans' unable to travel & work in the EU and have to go through utterly degrading & expensive visa procedures every single time.
"In the future, we may have 3D printers at home and make our own clothes!" Hana is the founder of Fight or Flight and she's taking fashion to the next level through wearable tech and
#slowfashion
long-lasting clothes
#EuropeansMakingADifference
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Dr. Ivanka Pllana, a Croatian doctor who worked in Prishtina since 1974 reveals the health apartheid against Kosovo Albanians in three decades.
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Kryetari i Prishtines
@ShpendA
duke pritur ne aeroportin e Brukselit, me kompanine ajrore me te lire qe fluturon per PR. Pamje te tilla jane shpresedhenese per nje vend lideret e te cilit pushojne ne
#saintmoritz
e defilojne me
#ysl
#Kosova10
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Me kënaqësi ju informoj që specat kanë ardhë edhe në Bruksel. S’ka përse.
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My book with
@gezimvisoka
where we unravel liberal interventionism made it home! Let’s hope the book becomes as popular as this noodles dish became for my little one, to whom this book is dedicated to!
#Kosovo
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This image of Petrit lined up with other refugees from Kosovo will always remain surreal to me. Seems like a carefully curated installation, much like his great work displayed all around the world today. Except, it’s bare life!
1999: Petrit Halilaj, center, in green coat, was an 11-year-old refugee fleeing genocide.
Today: Petrit is an accomplished Kosovo-Albanian artist whose past wartime experiences influence his artwork.
📍 Kosovo
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The impressive
@UtaIbrahimi
, the first Kosovar (woman) to climb Everest has published a great children’s book about her journey. And we are learning that girls can do anything! Nora loves it and calls it ‘Uta e Norës’ 😇. Të duam
@gresulina
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You don’t need to have gone through war yourself or to have a bully for a neighbour in order to feel the pain and the resilience among Ukrainians 💙💛
The protests in Brussels continue tomorrow (Saturday) at 14:30 in Arts-Loi. Follow
@OBurlyuk
for more.
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Very happy to announce that I will be co-editing "Routledge Studies in Intervention & Statebuilding" w/
@FarCanals
&
@polbargues
. Do get in touch for book proposals and edited volumes!
#intervention
#statebuilding
After years of dutiful service my friend
@lemayhebert
has stepped down as co-editor of the "Routledge Studies in Intervention & Statebuilding" book series. He'll be missed but I'm very excited that
@VjosaMusliu
&
@polbargues
have replaced him. Contact us!
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Kind reminder to my Serbian colleagues: there are other authors who have been writing on international intervention & statebuilding in
#Kosovo
other than Andrea Capussela. High time to brush up on those reading lists. Nema na čemu!
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The Editorial for the
@JIRD_jour
Special Forum on knowledge production in 🇷🇺's war against 🇺🇦co-edited by
@OBurlyuk
& I is out.
Summary & key takeaway points in the 🧵 below:
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Breaking!!! I just had an out-of-body experience while crossing borders with an EU passport. Nobody asked ten questions; scrutinised my passport inside out; no need to provide explanations where do I live, what do I do; no need to bend over.
Just a stamp and ‘have a nice day’!
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19yrs ago the family of these three beautiful - back then little children - offered shelter & hospitality to me & my family during the war in
#Kosovo
. Humble gratitude for life! 🌼
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When people tell us: yeah, but you academic parents don’t do any work on weekends!
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Late June 1999. This is me next to John with his division. I spent months translating for him, my broken English notwithstanding (I was 12yo). The man in his green t-shirt watching us proudly in the back is my father.
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It’s a historical day. We agreed!
1. The book
2. Middle Eastern lunch
3. Good espresso
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We spent hours playing with snow and the Mediterranean sun worshipper father stayed for an entire 5 minutes outside taking our pictures. We are so proud of him!
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Listening to
@pirorexhepi
talk in Albanian about coloniality and the racialization of the Balkans was a treat for the soul.
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Të enjten, në orën 14:00 në Biblotekën Kombëtare të Kosovës bëhet promovimi i librit tim në diskutim me
@NitaLuci
.
Ju ftojmë në promovimin e librit të fundit të Prof. Ass.
@VjosaMusliu
(
@VUB
) Evropianizimi dhe Shtetndërrtimi si Praktika të Përditshme: Performimi i Evropës në Ballkanin Perëndimor. Prezentim dhe bashkëbisedim me autoren.
#BibliotekaKomb
ëtareKosovës 27 Maj 14:00
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It’s an impressive crowd in Brussels today in front of the Russian permanent representation to EU
#StopPutin
#IStandWithUkraine
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A walk in Arnavutköy and waiting for the dusk by the Bosphorus.
Istanbul is magical despite the insane politics!
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Meet Enduena Klajiqi, the new research assistant at
@POLI_VUB
. Enduena will be working with me in the project: “Feminist encounters of statebuilding in Kosovo”.
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Borders that kill, borders that dehumanize.
A Kosovan mother public cry about the
@AustriainMK
refusing her an entry visa 4 times. Needs to be by her daughter’s side receiving medical treatment. After waiting months, spending thousands - says will travel ilegally. A total disregard for human life by
#Austria
.
@MFA_Austria
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Our 5yo every time she sees an EU flag: “oh look it’s the Kosovo flag…No, it’s the other one that looks almost like Kosovo’s flag”.
Almost EU. Almost European. Almost visa liberalisation. Almost human. Permanently almost.
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Super qe
@arifaj_teuta
qenka fytyra e re e Interaktivit (me krejt respektin per
@xhemajl_rexha
:)). Hapsira televizive e emisioneve politike ka nevoje me u çliru prej kravatave dhe studiove si çajtore vakti ku kryesisht bertitet prej injorantave.
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Folks, I don't deserve my students: "....the practice of int. peacebuilding oftentimes suggests that 'peace' is almost a commodity that can be purchased at an Amazon-like enterprise and be shipped to wherever it is needed"
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"Feminists, Nationalists, Combatants, Activists"
An article by Enduena Klajiqi and me on the multi-faceted role of women in Kosovo's resistance, liberation and post-war reconstruction for
@JournalWPP
A special issue by
@DAgostinoSerena
&
@NadiaEBrow44076
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From Belgrade to Moscow to Tel Aviv and also from Brussels to Berlin to Washington: silence will not protect you.
Hannah Arendt about the intellectuals who were much more Nazificated than the "normal" people.
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It is our moral duty to help Belgium and Western European countries reach democratic standards. A call for all Balkan lobbyists, experts, technocrats and academics specialised in peacebuillding!
#Aalst
#Belgium
#Europeanstandards
It is about time someone deploys a peacebuilding mission there to ensure local peace, security, prosperity, development, resilience, normalcy...[add other buzzwords used in foreign interventions].
@VjosaMusliu
you might be suitable for special rep.
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Free idea for a chilling article: The versatility of fridges & freezers in Serbian politics. From mass graves in 1999 to the election campaign in 2022.
Meanwhile, here's Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić coming out of a refrigerator on the most popular private and pro-government TV station, Pink.
The country's general elections are on Sunday.
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While I hardly ever work on weekends, I do my most radical work on weekends!
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Impossible to sugarcoat EU's stance on Kosovo as "constructive ambiguity", "organised schizophrenia" or else. It's blatantly discriminatory, racist-like and here is why:
- 🇽🇰's flag echoes that of🇪🇺.
- 🇽🇰's national anthem is called "Europe".
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With heavy hearts we said goodbye to teta Xhangi, a friend, an icon of my hometown Gjilan, a godmother to us all & the fiercest person I've ever known. Dedicated her life to education & in her youth played football for Chelsea of London in the 1970s.
Dashni, drita jonë 🤍
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Devastating as the isolation of Kosovars is, this story shows how EU embassies continuously violate the Visa Code with Kosovar applicants. The reporting of
@aulonekadriu
w/ a contribution of my own shows the ethical & financial maze of the visa process.
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Following some comments & questions about the
@Yugosplaining
initiative, my involvement in it &
#Yugowashing
, a couple of things to clarify from my perspective as one of the authors, albeit writing with a Collective. Thread 👇
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Writing with a collective is laborious, messy & fulfilling. It's the very opposite of what today's academia demands & validates: individual & fast output. 3.5 yrs later, our article is open access thanks to the great editorial work of
@INTPOLITSOCIO
This feels particularly special - the first academic piece by the Yugoslawomen+ Collective (
@SladjaLazic
,
@VjosaMusliu
,
@dzenetakarabeg
,
@JulijaSardelic
,
@J_Obradovic_W
) is now out open access in
@INTPOLITSOCIO
!
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Reason for my mom's 1-week visit to🇧🇪, you ask? Seeing her granddaughter, a🇧🇪national of two academic parents working in🇧🇪universities (not that that should mean anything).
The demand for 'others' to prove their humanity speaks about the (in)humanity of those demanding it.
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Here is one important and timely book on transitional justice in Kosovo and beyond, edited by
@FarCanals
&
@furtunna
available now at Intervention & Statebuilding Series (
@InRoutledge
) that I co-edit.
Ready to pre-order here
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Me explaining about my lecturing at Kent Uni Brussels: A Kosovan lecturer (non-EU), teaches EU Politics to international students at a British University in Brussels!
#cantmakethisstuffup
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The demand for taxis in Tirana seems to have gotten out of hand.
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Today Albanians celebrate Teachers’ Day marked by the opening of the first school in Albanian language in Korçë 🇦🇱 (1887).
Below is grandpa in the late 1950s teaching in today’s southern Serbia and mom in the early 1980s in Kosovo teaching Albanian language & literature.
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Mirmëngjesi Kosovë, o definicion i gërdisë. N’ditë si kjo e kupton fatin e madh të shumē prej nesh që kemi ikë e po ikim, pa e kthy kokën ma!
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Hi everyone. I’m Vjosa, currently visiting at
@UdelPacifico
, otherwise known as: literally just emerged from the woods!
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With so much going on in Kosovo and in the Balkans lately, make sure to follow
@UnaHajdari
for sound & sensible analysis. Especially, if you are tired from the usual realist/militaristic opinions detached from the sociological realities of the populations in the region.
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Pas 14 vitesh “jashtë”, hera e parë jo vetëm që votoj me qef, por edhe qe vi n’Kosovë veç me votu! 😊
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Good morning from
#Lima
. After a 14 hour flight with a toddler, still looking forward to exciting months of fieldwork & research stay at
@UdelPacifico
. I will be chasing the notion of
#Europe
&
#West
in
#Peru
@AcademicMomLife
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Exactly 6yrs ago, my then colleagues of
@CEUSGhent
gifted me this drill for my PhD degree so that I can continue to deconstruct “gender and power relations” 😊. Today though, I will be using it for some final arrangements in my new office at
@POLI_VUB
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Is anybody else up for exams on a Saturday?
PS. Yes, we’re still waiting for summer to come to this part of the world.
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Happy birthday Kosovo 🇽🇰!
You keep giving to the world the best music, football, theatre, generosity, judo, hospitality and films all the while being caged.
Të du❤️
(pic by
@UtaIbrahimi
)
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It’s a good day to talk about (non)agreements of peace at the European Commission.
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Here we go again. In this interview
@gezimvisoka
& I talk about our edited book (Unravelling Liberal Interventionism) that made it to the Top 10 Books of the International Affairs reading list for 2020.
Interested in local critiques of statebuilding? Here is a great interview with
@gezimvisoka
@iicrr
@LawGovDCU
and
@VjosaMusliu
of
@POLI_VUB
. Their book, authored entirely by local scholars is in Top 10 Books reviewed in the International Affairs journal.
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Just received this fantastic book by
@atdhehetemi
w/
@PalgraveHistory
that I had the pleasure to endorse. A great insight on Kosovo's student movements and pre-war grassroot activism
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Vazhdon me m'shoku pyetja e shqipeve: e qysh, a vec n'universitet punon a?!
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Every year, I teach post-graduate students from around Europe on international conflicts, at 'the heart of Europe' no less, wherein the overwhelming majority come with no prior knowledge of
#SrebrenicaGenocide
or even of the sheer gravity of the crime.
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