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Dr Klejda Mulaj
PhD in International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004)
Senior Lecturer
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I study political violence with particular reference to violence of war; crimes against humanity - genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes; nationalism; state formation; intervention; and postconflict rebuilding. My latest work explores effects of genocide in its aftermath and has resulted in a volume published with Oxford University Press (2021) entitled Postgenocide: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Effects of Genocide. In other recent work I have analysed how violence of war contributes to the constitution of the political community, the result of which has been published in Review of International Studies (Cambridge University Press). Previously I have done extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans in the setting of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, results of which have been published in various peer-reviewed journals and one book entitled Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010). I am also editor and author of a volume entitled Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (2010), published jointly with Hurst and Columbia University Press, which investigates conditions that give rise to violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and the correlations between VNSAs and the environment that creates and nurtures them.
I have taught at university level since 2001, and am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA).
I welcome PhD proposals on any aspect of conflict analysis and postconflict rebuilding.
Recent Publications
Postgenocide: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Effects of Genocide, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
'On State Building and Wicket Problems: Stateness, Nationhood, and Mimicry', International Studies 56(2-3) 2019.
'Violence of War, Ontopology, and the Instrumental and Performative Constitution of the Political Community', Review of International Studies 44(1) 2018.
'Limitations in Attributing State Responsibility under the Genocide Convention', Journal of Human Rights 17(1) 2018, Co-authored with Professor Kevin Aquilina.
'Genocide and the Ending of War: Meaning, Remembrance and Denial in Srebrenica, Bosnia', Crime, Law and Social Change 68(1) 2017.
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Research interests
My research interests focus on political violence with particular reference to violence of war; crimes against humanity; nationalism; intervention; and postconflict rebuilding.
For a list of my publications, please refer to the tab 'PUBLICATIONS'.
Research supervision
I welcome PhD proposals on any aspect of conflict analysis; interpretations of contemporary wars; genocide and other crimes against humanity; nationalism; and postconflict rebuilding.
Other information
Courses Taught
At the University of Exeter:
- Security Studies
- Foreign Policy: Leadership, Power and Responsibility
- War and Its Aftermath
- Intervention and Statebuilding
- Conflict, Security and Development in World Politics
- Security and Terrorism
- Conflict Analysis
- Ethno-Politics: Theoretical Considerations and Case Studies
At the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of London:
- The Ethics of War
- Strategic Aspects of International Relations
- The Structure of International Society
At Goldsmiths College, University of London:
- Genocide, Violence and Reconciliation
At the University of Malta:
- International Terrorism
- Nationalism
- Contemporary Warfare
- European Security
- The International Criminal Court
- Eastern Europe in Transition
Reviewer for the following Academic Journals:
European Journal of International Relations
Review of International Studies
International Affairs
International Political Sociology
International Migration
Millennium: Journal of International Studies
European Journal of Political Research
International Peacekeeping
Terrorism and Political Violence
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Foreign Policy Analysis
Civil Wars
Nationality Papers
Democratisation
Europe-Asia Studies
Australian and New Zealand Journal of European Studies
Journal of Human Rights
Suedosteuropa: A Journal of Politics and Society
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Member of the International Studies Association
- Member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities
- Member of the British International Studies Association