#  Selected Publications 

 



"What's So Special About Refugees? Four Parameters for Scrutinizing Forced Migration," *Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies* (forthcoming 2025). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Whats%20So%20Special%20About%20Refugees%20mandic%20%28FINAL%20VERSION%29.pdf)

\[chapter co-authors Kosta Nikolic and Vladimir Petrovic\] "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.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Syrian%20Refugee%20Crisis%20Drivers%20of%20Displacement.pdf)

“The Difference Mafias Make: A Triadic Model of Organized Crime in Ethnic Conflicts,” *Journal of Political Power* (2022). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/The%20difference%20mafias%20make%20a%20triadic%20model%20of%20organized%20crime%20in%20ethnic%20conflicts.pdf)

“Wheeling and Dealing in War: Contextualizing Smuggling in Violent Rebellions,” *Participation and Conflict \[Special Edition “Between Rebellion and Governance”\]* (2022). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Wheeling%20and%20Dealing%20in%20War%20-%20Mandic.pdf)

“What is the Force of Forced Migration? Diagnosis and Rebuttal of a Conceptual Relativization,” *Theory and Society,* 1-30 (2021). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Mandi%C4%872021_Article_WhatIsTheForceOfForcedMigratio.pdf)

"Normal Bedfellows," *Gangsters and Other Statesmen*, Princeton University Press (2021). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Gangsters%20and%20other%20Statesmen%20NORMAL%20BEDFELLOWS_opt.pdf)

"A Migrant ‘Hot Potato” System: The Transit Camp and Urban Integration in a Bridge Society,*" Journal of Urban Affairs*, 1-17 (2018). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/A%20migrant%20%20hot%20potato%20%20system%20%20The%20transit%20camp%20and%20urban%20integration%20in%20a%20bridge%20society.pdf)

"Out with the Old: Youth Solidarity and Nationalism among Young Kosovars and Serbs," *Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe* (2018). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Mandic%20Out%20with%20the%20old.pdf)

“Refugees and Shifted Risk: An International Study of Syrian Forced Migration and Smuggling,” *International Migration* (2017). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Mandic%20International_Migration%20%282017%29.pdf)

“Trafficking and Syrian Refugee Smuggling: Evidence from the Balkan Route,” *Social Inclusion* 5(2):28-38 (2017)*.* [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Mandic%20-%20Social%20Inclusion.pdf)

“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.](https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/01/04/anatomy-of-a-refugee-wave-forced-migration-on-the-balkan-route-as-two-processes/)

“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.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Burden%20of%20History%20-%20CEO.pdf)

"Separatists, Gangsters and Other Statesmen: The State, Secession and Organized Crime in Serbia and Georgia, 1989-2012." Dissertation, Harvard University (2015). [PDF here.](https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp014m90dx38z)

“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.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Myths%20and%20Bombs%20%20War%20%20State%20Popularity%20and%20the%20Collapse%20of%20National%20Mythology.pdf)

“Myths and Bombs: War, State Popularity and the Collapse of National Mythology,” *Nationalities Papers* 36(1), 25-54 (2008). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Myths%20and%20Bombs%20%20War%20%20State%20Popularity%20and%20the%20Collapse%20of%20National%20Mythology.pdf)

“The Limits of Nationalism: Serbia’s 1991 Military Mobilization and Resistance to it,” *Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal* 6, 69-82 (2007). [PDF here.](https://mandic.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum1966/files/2025-05/Danilo%20Mandic%20-%20SURJ%202007.pdf)



 

 



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