Rate My Professor Vjosa Musliu

Vjosa Musliu is an Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), where she also serves as Head Lecturer for Political Science and the VUB Centre for Democratic Futures. Her research interests center on international and European interventions, conflicts, and international political economy, primarily focusing on the Balkans and post-Soviet space. She is a member of the YugoSlaWomen+ Collective. Musliu's career trajectory includes a postdoctoral position funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) at VUB, investigating Europe and Europeanization as performative acts in everyday events; a postdoctoral role at the Conflict and Development Department of Ghent University; and a lectureship at the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent.

Musliu has authored and edited numerous works, including the monograph Europeanization and Statebuilding as Everyday Practices: Performing Europe in the Western Balkans (2021), the edited volume Feminist Encounters in Statebuilding: The Role of Women in Making the State in Kosovo (2024, co-edited with I. M. Chao), and peer-reviewed articles such as Mediation through recontextualization: The European Union and the dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia (2017), Unravelling Liberal Interventionism: Local Critiques of Statebuilding in Kosovo (2019), The responsibility to remain silent? On the politics of knowledge production, expertise and (self-)reflection in Russia’s war against Ukraine (2023), and Silencing solidarity. How Vetëvendosje erased its Palestine archive (2024, with P. Rexhepi). With 35 research outputs, her scholarship has earned the Independent Social Research Foundation Fellowship (2023), PhD Scholarship (2011), Masters Scholarship (2008), and inclusion in the Top 10 Books of the International Affairs Christmas reading list (2020). As administrative promotor for FWO projects like Bare Lives of EUrope (2025-2029), Feminist Encounters of Statebuilding in Kosovo (2023-2027), and Everyday Europeanization in EUrope's peripheries (2018-2021), she advances performative and feminist approaches in EU studies and statebuilding. Musliu supervises theses, participates in PhD committees, delivers lectures, and contributes to media on EU-Balkans dynamics and geopolitics.