Single-authored Monographs

• Koinova, Maria, "Time and Temporalities in Diaspora Politics," under contract with Oxford University Press.

  

  

• Koinova, Maria, "Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States" 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.
• Google book Endorsements Reviews: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nationalities Papers
  
  
• Koinova, Maria, "Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States: Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo," 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.

Synopsis of the book | Google book Review in Foreign Affairs (January/February 2014) | Excerpts from Journal Reviews 2014-2015

Special Issues and Sections

• Koinova, Maria. 2024. "Governing Transit and Irregular Migration: Beyond Formal Policies and Informal Practices," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online, 23 August, 2024.
• Koinova, Maria, Maryam Z. Deloffre, Frank Gadinger, Zeynep S. Mencutek, Jan Aart Scholte, Jens Steffek, 2021. "It's Ordered Chaos: What Really Makes Polycentrism Work," Forum in International Studies Review 23(4): 1988-2018.
• Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2019. “Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 42 (11).
  Reprinted as a book "Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice," London: Routledge, 2020.

• Koinova, Maria. 2018. “Diaspora Mobilizations for Conflict and Postconflict Reconstruction: Contextual and Comparative Dimensions,”
  Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 (8), temporary open access, short video

• Koinova, Maria and Gerasimos Tsourapas. 2018. “Diasporas and Sending States in World Politics,” International Political Science Review 39 (3), short video

Journal articles

• Koinova, Maria. 2024. "Governing Transit and Irregular Migration: Informality and Formal Policies," Introduction to a special issue in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online on 23 August, 2024 in open access.
• Koinova, Maria. 2024. "Power and Informality in the Polycentric Governance of Transit and Irregular Migration on EU's Eastern Border with Belarus," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, published online on 23 August, 2024 in open access.
• Koinova, Maria, Philippe Blanchard and Ben Margulies. 2023. "Mixed Methods in an Emerging Research Programme on Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Their Mobilizations," International Migration Review, online publication, 4 June.
• Koinova, Maria, Franck Düvell, Foteini Kalantzi, Sara de Jong, Christian Kaunert and Marianne H. Marchand. 2023. "International Politics of Migration in Times of 'Crises' and Beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic," Migration Studies 11(1): 242–257.
• Koinova, Maria. 2022. "Polycentric Governance of Transit Migration: A Relational Perspective from the Balkans and the Middle East," Review of International Studies, 48(3): 461-483, open access.

• Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2019. “Causal Mechanisms in Diaspora Mobilizations for Transitional Justice,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (11): 1809-1829, introduction to a special issue.

• Koinova, Maria. 2019. “Diaspora Coalition-building for Genocide Recognition: Armenians, Assyrians and Kurds,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (11): 1890-1910.

• Koinova, Maria, 2018d. "Sending States and Diaspora Positionality in International Relations," International Political Sociology 12(2): 190-210. Short video.
• Koinova, Maria. 2018c. "Endorsers, Challengers, or Builders: Political Parties' Diaspora Outreach in a Postconflict State," International Political Science Review 39(3): 384-399, Short video.

• 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, open access, Short video

• Koinova, Maria. 2018b. “Diaspora Mobilizations for Conflict and Postconflict Reconstruction: Contextual and Comparative Dimensions,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44 (8), open access, short video

• Koinova, Maria. 2018a. "Critical Junctures and Transformative Events in Diaspora Mobilization for Kosovo and Palestinian Statehood," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 44(8): 1289-1308, short video.

• Koinova, Maria. 2017. "Beyond Statist Paradigms: Sociospatial Positionality and Diaspora Mobilization in International Relations," International Studies Review19 (4): 597-621. Open access, Short video.

• Koinova, Maria and Dzeneta Karabegovic. 2017. "Diasporas and Transitional Justice: Transnational Activism from Local to Global Levels of Engagement," Global Networks, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 212-233, ISI-ranked. Short video.

• Koinova, Maria. 2016b. "Sustained vs. Episodic Mobilization among Conflict-generated Diasporas," International Political Science Review, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 500-516. Selected for the IPSR Editors’ Choice Collection “Borders and Margins.” ISI-ranked, open access, short video.

• Koinova, Maria. 2016a. "How Refugee Diasporas Respond to Trauma," Current History, Vol. 115. No. 784, pp. 322-324, perspective article, invited contribution to a special issue on diasporas.

• Koinova, Maria. 2015. "Armenian Diaspora Mobilization in Unity and Diversity," Special issue contribution in German and English in Osteuropa No: 7-10: 285-298, ISI-ranked.

• 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. Short video.

• Koinova, Maria. 2013. "Four Types of Diaspora Mobilization: Albanian Diaspora Activism for Kosovo Independence in the US and the UK," Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 433-453, ISI-ranked, open access.
• Koinova, Maria, 2012b. “Autonomy and Positionality in Diaspora Politics,” International Political Sociology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 99-103, ISI-ranked.
• Koinova, Maria, 2011a. “Challenging Assumptions of the Enlargement Literature: The Impact of the EU on Human and Minority Rights in Macedonia,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 63, No. 5, ISI-ranked.
• Koinova, Maria. 2011b. “Diasporas and Secessionist Conflicts: The Mobilization of the Albanian, Armenian, and Chechen Diasporas,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 333-356, ISI-ranked, open access.
• Koinova, Maria. 2011c. “Can Conflict-Generated Diasporas be Moderate Actors during Episodes of Contested Sovereignty? Lebanese and Albanian Diasporas Compared,” Review of International Studies, Vol.37, No.1, pp. 437-462, ISI-ranked.
• Koinova, Maria. 2009a. “Diasporas and Democratization in the Post-communist World,” Communist and Post-communist Studies, Vol. 42 (March), pp. 41-64, ISI-ranked.
• Koinova, Maria, 2009b. “Why 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. “Kin-states Intervention in Ethnic Conflicts: Albania and Turkey Compared,” Ethnopolitics, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 373-390.
• Koinova, Maria, 2001. “Saxcoburggotsky and His Catch-All Attitude: Cooperation or Cooptation?” Southeast European Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 135-140.
• Koinova, Maria, 1999. “Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Bulgaria,” South-East Europe Review, No. 2, pp. 147-158.

Book chapters and other publications

• Koinova, Maria. 2018."Diaspora Mobilizations for Conflict: Beyond Amplification and Reduction," in Robin Cohen and Carolin Fisher (eds.) Handbook of Diaspora Studies, London: Routledge, 311-319.

• Koinova, Maria. 2017. “Conflict and Cooperation in Armenian Diaspora Mobilization for Genocide Recognition,” in David Carment and Ariane Sadjed (eds.) Diaspora as Cultures of Cooperation: Global and Local Perspectives. London: Palgrave, pp.111-129.

• Koinova, Maria 2014a. “Diasporas and Contextualized Transnationalism” and “Conclusions” in Dino Abazovic and Mitja Velikonja (eds.) Post-Yugoslavia. New Cultural and Political Perspectives, Palgrave, pp. 133-161; 198-204.
• Koinova, Maria 2014b. “Conditionality vs. Socialization: The EU Impact on Human Rights in Macedonia” 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. “Unintended Consequences of Diaspora Entrepreneurship during Post-conflict Reconstruction” The Forum, Center for International Relations, VA, USA, Fall.
• Koinova, Maria, 2010b. “Diasporas and International Politics: Utilizing the Universalistic Creed of Liberalism for Particularistic and Nationalist Purposes” in Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist (eds.) Diaspora and Transnationalism. Concepts, Theories, Methodologies, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, peer-reviewed, pp.149-166.
• Koinova, Maria, 2009. “Conditions and Timing of Moderate Diaspora Mobilization,” Working Paper, George Mason University, Center for Global Studies, Global Migration and Transnational Politics Series, October,
• Koinova, Maria. 2007. “Fragments of Conflict Research,” in Eidelson, Roy et. al eds. Peacemaker 101, (Philadelphia, PA: Solomon Asch Center for Ethno-political Conflict), pp. 303-310.
• Koinova, Maria, 2004. “Understanding the War in Kosovo” by F. Bieber and Zh. Daskalovski. Book Review. Nationalities Papers, June.
• Koinova, Maria, 2003. “Three Outcomes of Ethnic Conflict: The Cases of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Yugoslavia (Kosovo) 1989-1999” in Dimitris Keridis, Ellen Elias-Bursac and Nicholas Yatromonalakis (eds.) New Approaches to Balkan Studies. Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, peer-reviewed, 183-204.
• Koinova, Maria. 2000. “The State of Human and Group Rights”, with co-author Luis Rodríguez-Piñero Royo and “Kosovo Roma and Other Minorities”, 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.