Denisa Kostovicova

Dr Denisa Kostovicova is Lecturer in Global Politics in the Government Department and Research Fellow at LSE Global Governance, at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the author Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge, 2005), with research interest in post-conflict democratisation and state-building.

Together with Dr Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, the author co-edited Transnationalism in the Balkans (Routledge, 2008), Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Ashgate, 2009) and Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) with James Ker-Lindsay.

Transnational networks and state-building in the Balkans

Informality allows people to change their immediate circumstances for the better, but it locks the state and society in a vicious circle of reproduction of a weak state, promising insecurity for the majority and prosperity for the few

By Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic and Denisa Kostovicova

/ 17 Jan 2011