Selected Publications

"What's So Special About Refugees? Four Parameters for Scrutinizing Forced Migration," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (forthcoming 2025). PDF here.

[chapter co-authors Kosta Nikolic and Vladimir Petrovic] "Amalgamation of Special Forces and Organized Crime in Serbia: Curbing the Democratic Transition after the Downfall of Slobodan Milošević," in Criminality, Political Power and Conflict: Critical Perspectives, Manchester University Press (forthcoming 2025).

"Drivers of Displacement," Syrian Refugee Crisis: How Democracies and Autocracies Perpetrated Mass Displacement, Routledge (2022). PDF here.

“The Difference Mafias Make: A Triadic Model of Organized Crime in Ethnic Conflicts,” Journal of Political Power (2022). PDF here.

“Wheeling and Dealing in War: Contextualizing Smuggling in Violent Rebellions,” Participation and Conflict [Special Edition “Between Rebellion and Governance”] (2022). PDF here.

“What is the Force of Forced Migration? Diagnosis and Rebuttal of a Conceptual Relativization,” Theory and Society, 1-30 (2021). PDF here.

"Normal Bedfellows," Gangsters and Other Statesmen, Princeton University Press (2021). PDF here.

"A Migrant ‘Hot Potato” System: The Transit Camp and Urban Integration in a Bridge Society," Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-17 (2018). PDF here.

"Out with the Old: Youth Solidarity and Nationalism among Young Kosovars and Serbs," Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe (2018). PDF here.

“Refugees and Shifted Risk: An International Study of Syrian Forced Migration and Smuggling,” International Migration (2017). PDF here.

“Trafficking and Syrian Refugee Smuggling: Evidence from the Balkan Route,” Social Inclusion 5(2):28-38 (2017). PDF here.

“Anatomy of a Refugee Wave: Forced Migration on the Balkan Route as Two Processes,” Europe Now, Columbia University Council for European Studies (January 2017). PDF here.

“What kind of Burden is the Burden of History? How Young Adults in Kosovo and Serbia Experience and Understand Nationalism,” Ethnopolitics 16(2), 107-125 (2016). PDF here.

"Separatists, Gangsters and Other Statesmen: The State, Secession and Organized Crime in Serbia and Georgia, 1989-2012." Dissertation, Harvard University (2015). PDF here.

“The Importance of Informality: A Response to Eckhard’s ‘Political Engineering in Kosovo,’” Amsterdam Journal of Social Sciences 4(1), 93-100 (2011). PDF here.

“Myths and Bombs: War, State Popularity and the Collapse of National Mythology,” Nationalities Papers 36(1), 25-54 (2008). PDF here.

“The Limits of Nationalism: Serbia’s 1991 Military Mobilization and Resistance to it,” Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal 6, 69-82 (2007). PDF here.