Dr. Gëzim Visoka, Dublin City University (DCU)
Primary Department: School of Law and Government
Role: Associate Dean for Research, FHSS. Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies
Email Address: [email protected]
Academic biography
I am the Associate Dean of Research in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University (DCU). Dr Visoka is a leading international scholar on statehood and state recognition, and post-conflict peacebuilding and statebuilding. His research focuses on the making, remaking, and unmaking of states and peace processes in contemporary world politics. He is the author and editor of 12 published books, over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles, and over 25 book chapters published with leading university presses and global academic publishers. Among his published works are: The Derecognition of States (2024); The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation (with Oliver P. Richmond, 2021), Normalization in World Politics (with Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, 2021); and Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Peace and Conflict Studies (with Oliver P. Richmond, 2021). His work has been with leading international peer-reviewed journals, such as: Nature, International Affairs, European Journal of International Relations, Journal of Common Market Studies; Geopolitics; Review of International Studies; Cooperation and Conflict; International Studies Review; Foreign Policy Analysis; International Peacekeeping; and Civil Wars. Dr Visoka is the founding Editor of Routledge Studies in Statehood (Taylor & Francis), and Co-Editor of Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (Palgrave) together with Oliver P. Richmond and Annika Björkdahl). In addition to his academic activity, Dr Visoka has over 20 years of experience working with civil society groups and policy consultancy in post-conflict societies.
Research interests
Post-conflict Peacebuilding and Statebuilding
State Recognition and Foreign Policy
Transitional Justice and Civil SocietyWestern Balkans
New publications
- Oliver Richmond, Sandra Pogodda, and Gëzim Visoka (2026). Counter-Peace: Tactical Blockages to Peace and Strategic Risks for the International System. Oxford University Press. [Open Access]
- Gëzim Visoka (2026). ‘Agreements on Normalisation and Statehood’. In: Siniša Vuković and Philip Terrence Hopmann (Eds.) Handbook on the Politics of International Agreements. Edward Elgar.
- Gëzim Visoka and Ramadan Ilazi (2026). ‘The EU Micro-Interventionism in Kosovo’, Southeastern Europe. 49(3): 342-371.
- Gëzim Visoka and Ramesh Ganohariti (2025). Sub-State Recognition: The Politics of Recognition from Below. Palgrave.
- Gëzim Visoka and Muhamet Brajshori (2025). ‘The Diplomacy of Uncertainty: Exploring the Protean Power of Aspirant States’, Foreign Policy Analysis, 21(4), oraf033. [Open Access]
- Gëzim Visoka (2025). ‘The Recognition and Derecognition of States’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies. Oxford University Press.
- Gëzim Visoka (2024). The Derecognition of States. The University of Michigan Press. [Open Access]