Dr Klejda Mulaj
PhD in International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004)
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Telephone: 01392 724038
Lecturer in International Relations
My research interests centre on conflict, security and peace studies – including causes of war, nationalism, state-formation, reconciliation, and post-conflict rebuilding. I have done extensive work on the causes and consequences of war/s and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans with particular reference to the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, results of which have been published in various journals and one book entitled Politics of Ethnic Cleansing (Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010). Recently I have completed editing a volume entitled Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics (2010), published jointly with Hurst and Columbia University Press. In exploring the correlation between violent non-state actors (VNSAs) and the environment that creates and nurtures them, this book unravels conditions which give rise to VNSAs and afterwards sustain them with a view to identifying suitable policy responses. Currently I am working on a project on Statebuilding, Intervention and Legitimation which interrogates ways in which the legitimacy of statebuilding might be achieved; how might the legitimacy of statebuilding projects be evaluated; and what forms critiques of such legitimacy might take.
I have taught at university level since 2001 and am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I welcome PhD proposals on any aspect of conflict analysis and post-conflict rebuilding.
Select Publications
BOOKS
Violent Non-State Actors in World Politics, (Edited Volume) London: Hurst; and New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
Politics of Ethnic Cleansing: Nation-State Building and Provision of In/security in Twentieth-Century Balkans, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, 2008, 2010.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
'The Problematic Legitimacy of International-led Statebuilding', Contemporary Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2011.
‘America after Iraq’, International Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 6, 2010 (co-authored with Tim Dunne).
‘Forced Displacement in Darfur, Sudan: Dilemmas of Classifying the Crimes’, International Migration, Vol. 46, No. 2, 2008.
‘Ethnic Cleansing and the Provision of In/Security’, Security Dialogue, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2007.
