Publications
Single-authored Monographs
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Koinova, Maria, "Time and Temporalities in Diaspora Politics," under contract with Oxford University Press.

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Koinova, Maria, " Oxford University Press, 2021.
This book develops a theory of socio-spatial positionality in International Relations, and its implications for the individual agency of diaspora entrepreneurs. A two-level typological theory demonstrates how diaspora entrepreneurs interact with host-land foreign policies, homeland governments, parties, non-state actors, and critical events from different global contexts. The book offers the first comprehensive comparative analysis of diaspora lobbying in Europe, and integrates the study of fragile statehood with that of migrants' incorporation and transnationalism. It is informed by 300 interviews among the Albanian, Armenian, and Palestinian diasporas connected to de facto states, Kosovo, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Palestine respectively. - Reviews: ,
- Koinova, Maria, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Tracing the development, continuity and change of informally institutionalized conflict dynamics in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Kosovo, this book analyzes why some conflicts were resolved with minimal violence after the end of communism while others broke out into civil war.
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Special Issues and Sections
- Koinova, Maria. 2025. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(2).
- Koinova, Maria, Maryam Z. Deloffre, Frank Gadinger, Zeynep S. Mencutek, Jan Aart Scholte, Jens Steffek, 2021. Forum in International Studies Review 23(4): 1988-2018.
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Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2019. 鈥,鈥 Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42 (11).Reprinted as a book "Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice," London: Routledge, 2020.
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Koinova, Maria. 2018. 鈥,鈥
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 (8), temporary open access, -
Koinova, Maria and Gerasimos Tsourapas. 2018. International Political Science Review 39 (3),
Journal articles
- Koinova, Maria. 2025. Introduction to a special issue in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(2):423-444, first published online in 2024; open access.
- Koinova, Maria. 2025. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 51(2): 501-525, first published online in 2024; open access.
- Koinova, Maria, Philippe Blanchard and Ben Margulies. 2023. International Migration Review 59(2): 996-1017, published in 2025.
- Koinova, Maria, Franck D眉vell, Foteini Kalantzi, Sara de Jong, Christian Kaunert and Marianne H. Marchand. 2023. Migration Studies 11(1): 242–257.
- Koinova, Maria. 2022. Review of International Studies, 48(3): 461-483, open access.
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Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2019. 鈥,鈥 Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (11): 1809-1829, introduction to a special issue.
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Koinova, Maria. 2019. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (11): 1890-1910.
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Koinova, Maria, 2018d. International Political Sociology 12(2): 190-210. .
- Koinova, Maria. 2018c. International Political Science Review 39(3): 384-399, .
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Koinova, Maria and Gerasimos Tsourapas. 2018. "How Do Countries of Origin Engage Migrants and Diasporas? Multiple Actors and Comparative Perspectives," International Political Science Review 39 (3): 311-321, introduction to a special issue, ,
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Koinova, Maria. 2018b. 鈥,鈥 Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 (8), open access,
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Koinova, Maria. 2018a. "" Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(8): 1289-1308, .
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Koinova, Maria. 2017. "Beyond Statist Paradigms: Sociospatial Positionality and Diaspora Mobilization in International Relations," International Studies Review19 (4): 597-621. , .
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Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2017. "" Global Networks, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 212-233, ISI-ranked. .
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Koinova, Maria. 2016b. "," International Political Science Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 500-516. Selected for the IPSR Editors鈥 Choice Collection 鈥淏orders and Margins.鈥 ISI-ranked, open access, .
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Koinova, Maria. 2016a. "," Current History, Vol. 115. No. 784, pp. 322-324, perspective article, invited contribution to a special issue on diasporas.
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Koinova, Maria. 2015. "," Special issue contribution in German and English in Osteuropa No: 7-10: 285-298, ISI-ranked.
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Koinova, Maria. 2014. "Why Do Conflict-generated Diasporas Pursue Sovereignty-based Claims through State-based or Transnational Channels? Armenian, Albanian, and Palestinian Diasporas in the UK Compared," European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 4 2014: 1043-1071, ISI-ranked. .
- Koinova, Maria. 2013. Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 433-453, ISI-ranked, open access.
- Koinova, Maria, 2012b. 鈥淎utonomy and Positionality in Diaspora Politics,鈥 International Political Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 99-103, ISI-ranked.
- Koinova, Maria, 2011a. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 63, No. 5, ISI-ranked.
- Koinova, Maria. 2011b. Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 333-356, ISI-ranked, open access.
- Koinova, Maria. 2011c. Review of International Studies, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 437-462, ISI-ranked.
- Koinova, Maria. 2009a. Communist and Post-communist Studies, Vol. 42 (March), pp. 41-64, ISI-ranked.
- Koinova, Maria, 2009b. 鈥淲hy Do Ethno-national Conflicts Reach Different Degrees of Violence? Insights from Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria during the 1990s, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 15 (Spring), pp. 84-108.
- Koinova, Maria, 2008. 鈥淜in-states Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: Albania and Turkey Compared,鈥 Ethnopolitics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 373-390.
- Koinova, Maria, 2001. Southeast European Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 135-140.
- Koinova, Maria, 1999. South-East Europe Review, No. 2, pp. 147-158.
Book chapters and other publications
- Koinova, Maria. 2018. in Robin Cohen and Carolin Fisher (eds.) Handbook of Diaspora Studies, London: Routledge, 311-319.
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Koinova, Maria. 2017. 鈥,鈥 in David Carment and Ariane Sadjed (eds.) Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation: Global and Local Perspectives. London: Palgrave, pp.111-129.
- Koinova, Maria 2014a. in Dino Abazovic and Mitja Velikonja (eds.) Post-Yugoslavia. New Cultural and Political Perspectives, Palgrave, pp. 133-161; 198-204.
- Koinova, Maria 2014b. in Henry Chip Carey (ed.) European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery, Lanham: Lexington Books, pp. 361-379.
- Koinova, Maria. 2010a. The Forum, Center for International Relations, VA, USA, Fall.
- Koinova, Maria, 2010b. in Rainer Baub枚ck and Thomas Faist (eds.) Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories, Methodologies, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, peer-reviewed, pp.149-166.
- Koinova, Maria, 2009. Working Paper, George Mason University, Center for Global Studies, Global Migration and Transnational Politics Series, October,
- Koinova, Maria. 2007. 鈥淔ragments of Conflict Research,鈥 in Eidelson, Roy et. al eds. Peacemaker 101, (Philadelphia, PA: Solomon Asch Center for Ethno-political Conflict), pp. 303-310.
- Koinova, Maria, 2004. 鈥淯nderstanding the War in Kosovo鈥 by F. Bieber and Zh. Daskalovski. Book Review. Nationalities Papers, June.
- Koinova, Maria, 2003. 鈥淭hree Outcomes of Ethnic Conflict: The Cases of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Yugoslavia (Kosovo) 1989-1999鈥 in Dimitris Keridis, Ellen Elias-Bursac and Nicholas Yatromonalakis (eds.) New Approaches to Balkan Studies. Dulles, VA: Brassey鈥檚, peer-reviewed, 183-204.
- Koinova, Maria. 2000. 鈥淭he State of Human and Group Rights鈥, with co-author Luis Rodr铆guez-Pi帽ero Royo and 鈥淜osovo Roma and Other Minorities鈥, with co-author Eduardo Trillo in Kosovo 1999-2000: la pace intrattabile. Una radiografia del dopo-bombe. [Kosovo 1999-2000. The Intractable Peace. A Radiography of the early Post-War] (Trieste: Asterios), pp. 132-148.