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Citations (Google scholar): https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QoQYE3EAAAAJ

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0437-3819  

Kudos: https://www.growkudos.com/profiles/157505 


Publons: publons.com/a/1214621/

Web of Science ResearcherID: AAG-9070-2019

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Islam-Jusufi 



Journal Articles:

· Jusufi, Islam and István József Polgár. (2023). The Interaction between the Level of Democracy and the Perception of the Civil Society: The Case of Albania and North Macedonia (2010-2022). Civil Szemle, 20(4), 127-150.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2023). NATO Ministries of Defense and Transparency of Job Roles of Civilian Personnel: Openness or Secrecy? Democracy and Security. DOI: 10.1080/17419166.2023.2289091.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2023). Cyber as sovereignty space: state transformation in the periphery of Europe. Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 31(3), 641–654. DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2023.2270876.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2023). Security studies in and on North Macedonia: the state of the discipline. Bezbednosni Dijalozi / Security Dialogues, 14(1), 167–199. DOI: 10.47054/SD23141167j

· Jusufi, Islam. (2023). The Nexus of Judiciary Power and Corruption in Albania: Strategies of Defiance and Evasions. Journal of Developing Societies, 39(3), 327-346. DOI: 10.1177/0169796X231179404.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2023). EU’s international relations in the practice of criticizing the human rights record of Russia

Journal of  Human Rights Practice, 15(2), 523–540. 

DOI: 10.1093/jhuman/huad005.

· Brie, Mircea, Islam Jusufi, Polgár István József. (2023). North Macedonia’s internal and external identity disputes and agreements: role and implication for the civil society. Civil Szemle, 20(2), 69-98.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2022). Reversibility of Illiberalism: The Case of North Macedonia. Southeastern Europe, 46(2), 178-205.  DOI: 10.30965/18763332-46020003.

· Brie, Mircea, Islam Jusufi, Istvan Polgar. (2022). Is Inclusivity Necessary for Legitimacy of New Regionalism? Unpacking Open Balkan Initiative Negotiations. Transylvanian Review, 31(2), 188-211.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2022). How the EU-induced institutional changes facilitated patronage over and capture of judiciary in North Macedonia. Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 24(5), 836-859. DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2022.2037961.  

· Jusufi, Islam, Reina Zenelaj Shehi, Jubjana Vila Zeka. (2022). Women as an Emerging Actor in Peace and Security: The Impact of UNSCR 1325 in Albania. Journal of Regional Security, 17(1), 111–140. DOI: 10.5937/jrs%v-33425.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2021). The Death of the European Agency for Reconstruction: A Peculiar Case of Termination of the Agencies of the European Union. Croatian and Comparative Public Administration, 21(4), 675–706. DOI: 10.31297/hkju.21.4.3.  

· Jusufi, Islam. (2018). Reconceptualising the security in discourse: inclusive security and popular protests. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 13(4), 362-376. DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2018.1552701.   

· Jusufi, Islam. (2018). Aid and its impact on domestic change: the case of police reforms in Macedonia. Development Policy Review, 36(6), 743-758. DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12343.  

· Jusufi, Islam. (2018). Clientelism and Informality in Albania. Eastern Journal of European Studies, 9(1), 133-150.   

· Jusufi, Islam. (2017). Human rights in the EU’s conditionality policy towards Albania: the practice of sub-committee meetings. Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 3(2), 52-68. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v3i2.304.   

· Jusufi, Islam. (2017). Albania's Transformation since 1997: Successes and Failures. Croatian International Relations Review, 23(77), 81-115. DOI: 10.1515/cirr-2017-0003. Accessible also at: http://cirr.irmo.hr/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CIRR-771.pdf

· Jusufi, Islam. (2012). Migration from the perspective of sending country: the literature and the facts. Analytical, 5(9). http://www.analyticalmk.com/files/2012/02/Islam%20Yusufi.pdf.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2007). Interethnic Policymaking for Interethnic Tolerance. Policy Perspectives, 1. 

· Jusufi, Islam. (2006). Candidate-state building: The case of Macedonia and its relations with the EU. Balkani, 240 - 262. http://www.balkani.eu/indexen.php?b=issue&bb=24032006120223&bbb=24032006120223_24032006121241.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2006). Ohrid Framework Agreement – decentralized system of post-conflict crisis management. Forum Analitika, 6, 70-79.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2004). Understanding the Process of Security Reform in Southeastern Europe. Journal of Security Sector Management, 2(2), 2-18.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2004). Europeanizing the Western Balkans through Military and Police Missions: The Cases of Concordia and Proxima in Macedonia. European Balkan Observer, 2(1), 8-12.

· Jusufi, Islam. (1999). Partnership for Peace. Perception 4(2).

Book Chapters:

· Jusufi, Islam. (2022). Uncertainty, fragmentation, and international obligations as shaping influences: Cyber security policy development in Albania. In: Myriam Dunn Cavelty and Andreas Wenger (eds.), Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation, pages: 172-185. London:  Routledge. 

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110224-14. 

· Kreci, Veli, and Islam Jusufi. (2022). North Macedonia: Local elections and the parliamentary political dynamics. In: Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer, Kristof Steyvers (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe, pages: 441-452. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780367444334.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2022). Backsliding and Regression tendencies in Muslim Electoral Democracies. In: Zeina M. Barakat, Thies Münchow, Ralf K. Wüstenberg (eds.), Islam & Democracy. Law, Gender and the West, pages: 65-81. Darmstadt: wbg Academic. ISBN: 978-3-534-40651-7.

· Jusufi, Islam, Ralf K. Wüstenberg, Alban Nako, Niuton Mulleti, Ines Stasa, Salih Özcan, Zeina Barakat, Gelanda Shkurtaj. (2021). An Analysis of Public Discourse on Albania's Transitional Justice System. In Innocent Chiluwa (ed.), Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-Building, pages: 413-438. London: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76485-2_15. 

· Brie, Mircea, Islam Jusufi, Istvan Polgar. (2021). The Role of the Albanian Community in the European Integration Process of North Macedonia. In: Laura M. Herta & Adrian G. Corpadean (eds.), International Relations and Area Studies: Focus on Western Balkans, pages: 65-89. Cluj: Cluj University Press. ISBN: 978-606-37-1323-3.

· Jusufi, Islam, and Jubjana Vila Zeka. (2017). Youth Politicization and De-politicization in Contemporary Albania. In T. P. Trost & D. Mandic (Eds), Beyond Ethnicity: Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe, pages: 97-109. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781315111049-6.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2010). Security strategies of Macedonia. In Miroslav Hadžić, Milorad Timotić and Predrag Petrović (Eds), Security Policies in the Western Balkans, pages: 97-124. Belgrade: Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2006). The Policy Shift in Fiscal Equalization in Macedoania: Yet to Be Implemented. In Gabor Peteri (Ed.), Fiscal Equalization in South Eastern Europe, pages: 1–20. Budapest: Local Government and Public Sector Reform Initiative.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2006). Priorities and Policies: Security and European Integration of the Republic of Macedonia. In FOSM (Ed.), Macedonia after Framework Agreement, pages: 169-178. Skopje: FOSM.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2005). Multiculturality and Security. In Ivan Dodovski (Ed.), Multiculturalism in Macedonia: An Emerging Model. Skopje: FOSM. COBISS.MK-ID 61826314. 

· Jusufi, Islam. (2004). Macedonia's Police Reforms. In M. Caparini, O. Marenin (Eds), Transforming Police in Central and Eastern Europe: Process and Progress, pages: 221-238. Reihe: Lit Verlag. 

· Jusufi, Islam. (2001). Stability Pact and Its Role in the Development of Regional Cooperation in South East Europe. In David Phinnemore and Peter Siani-Davies (Eds), South-Eastern Europe and EU Enlargement, pages:  29-38. Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast Press.

· Jusufi, Islam. (1999). Partnership for Peace: a Basis for Future Security Architecture in Europe. In Koscka/Dubsky (Eds), European Integration as a Way to Security and Prosperity, pages: 13-26. Prague: Prague University Press.

Authored Books and Monographs:

· Jusufi, Islam, Yorgos Christidis, Panagiotis Paschalidis, Cvete Koneska, Veli Kreci, Ioannis Armakolas, Alexandra Voudouri. (2022). From Dispute to Connectivity: Greece-North Macedonia-Bulgaria between a Difficult Past and a European Future. Athens: Eliamep; Skopje: Analytica. ISBN: 978-608-4562-05-4. COBISS.MK-ID: 57874437.

· Paschalidis, Panagiotis, Ioannis Armakolas, Islam Jusufi, Yorgos Christidis, Mary Drosopoulos, Cvete Koneska, and Veli Kreci. (2020). Broadening Multilevel Connectivity Between Greece and North Macedonia in the Post – Prespa Environment. Athens: Eliamep; Skopje: Analytica. COBISS.MK-ID: 52835077.

· Armakolas, Ioannis, Veli Kreci, Yorgos Christidis, Panagiotis Paschalidis, Islam Jusufi. (2019). Cooperation in education, culture, and civil society after the Prespa Agreement: How to move forward. Athens: Eliamep; Skopje: Analytica. COBISS.MK-ID: 52788997.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2013). Europeanisation and Security Sector Reform: The case of the Republic of  Macedonia. Saarbrücken, Germany: Scholars' Press.

· Jusufi, Islam, et. al. (2012). Analysis of literature on the effects of remittances on education and health of family members left behind. Skopje/Tirana: ACSER/Analytica. http://www.analyticamk.org/images/stories/files/2012002.pdf.

· Jusufi, Islam, et. al. (2012). Context analysis: migration and remittances and their impact in Albania and Macedonia. Skopje/Tirana: ACSER/Analytica. http://www.analyticamk.org/images/stories/files/ContextAnalysis_01072012.pdf.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2012). Demographic Convergence: How the demographic shifts are transforming the governments. Vienna: Erste Stiftung. http://www.erstestiftung.org/social-research/demographic-convergence-how-the-demographic-shifts-are-transforming-the-governments/#more-276.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2010). Assessment of capacities to combat illicit trafficking of humans-related criminal activity: the case of Macedonia and its relations with NATO. Brussels: NATO.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2003). Security Sector Reform in South East Europe. Budapest: Center for Policy Studies. http://www.policy.hu/yusufi/researchreport.pdf.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2002). Process 2002: Security of the Republic of Macedonia. Skopje: Sv. Kliment Ohridski Press. COBISS.MK-ID 50217226. 

· Jusufi, Islam. (2000). Partnership for Peace and Macedonia. Brussels: NATO. http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/98-00/yusufi.pdf.

Edited Books or Journals:

· Jusufi, Islam, and Jubjana Vila Zeka. (Eds.). (2017). Local, Regional and Global Governance: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on European Studies, held at Epoka University, Tirana, Albania, 5-6 November 2017. Epoka University.

· Jusufi, Islam, and Jubjana Vila Zeka. (Eds.). (2017). Local, Regional and Global Governance: Book of Abstracts of the 6th International Conference on European Studies, held at Epoka University, Tirana, Albania, 5-6 November 2017. Epoka University.

Book Reviews

· Jusufi, Islam. (2019). When Informal Institutions Change. Institutional Reforms and Informal Practices in the Former Soviet Union. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(2). DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1584456. 

· Jusufi, Islam. (2018). Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States. Accomplishments, Setbacks, Challenges since 1990. Europe-Asia Studies, 70(7), 1165-1167. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2018.1503886.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2017). Performing Nostalgia. Migration Culture and Creativity in South Albania. Südosteuropa. Journal for Politics and Society, 65(4), 709–711. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soeu-2017-0047.  

· Jusufi, Islam. (2017). Protest in Putin's Russia. Europe-Asia Studies, 69(10), 1674-1675. DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2017.1401820

Datasets


· Aydın-Aitchison, A., E. Brandon, M. Buljubašić, M. Dobrovolskis, A. Gerdeci, T Hoffmann, N. Higgins, M.P. Hossain, N. Jeiranashvili, I. Jusufi, G. Maguire, A. Maljević, M. Mancini, U. Markevičiūtė, L. Martinaitytė, Matsiko, J. Radmanović, I.M. Ragaišytė, B. Ristivojević, S. Samardžić, R. Steponavičiūtė, N. Stojanović, G. Švedas, and A. Vosyliūtė. (2023). States and International Criminal Justice: COST CA18228 Scoping Survey. [Dataset, version 2]. DOI: 10.7488/ds/7536.

· Gerdeci, Alba, Islam Jusufi. (2023). States and International Criminal Justice: COST CA18228 Scoping Survey: Albania. [Dataset, version 1].

· Jusufi, Islam, Tea Hodaj,  Alban Nako, Jubjana Vila. (2023). International Relations scholarship in and on Albania (1991-2022): the state of the discipline 30 years after the transition to democracy. [Dataset]. Mendeley Data. DOI: 10.17632/p7zf64v9dn.1.

· Jusufi, Islam. (2022). Security Studies in and on North Macedonia: the state of the discipline. [Dataset]. Mendeley Data. DOI: 10.17632/2pfdd856bb.1.

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