Journal articles

 

Kušić K (2023) Rethinking international intervention through coeval engagement: Non-formal youth education and the politics of improvement. Review of International Studies. Online First (Open Access).

Kušić K (2022) Land and human-soil relations in Southeast Europe, in: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 18.11.2022. Read full text.

Kušić K (2021) Balkan subjects in intervention literature: The politics of overrepresentation and reconstruction. Journal of International Relations and Development, 24:4 (2021), pp. 910–31. Read full text.


Kušić K (2025) Beyond International Intervention: Politics of Improvement in Serbia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Read and download.

Book


Edited Volumes

Dunne T, Kurki M, Kušić K, Smith S (eds) (2024) International relations theories: discipline and diversity. Sixth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kušić K and Záhora J (eds) (2020) Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Bristol: E-International Relations.

Kušić K, Lottholz P and Manolova P (eds) (2019) Decolonial Theory and Practice in Southeast Europe. Sofia: dVERSIA.


Chapters

Deiana, MA and Kušić K (2025) “No Alternative but Europeanisation: Slow Violence and Critical Imaginaries in/from/with South East Europe.” In Aparna K, Krivonos D, and Pascucci E (eds) Europeanisation as Violence: Souths and Easts as Method. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Kušić K (2024) Critical Theories. In: Dunne T, Kurki M, Kušić K, Smith S. (eds) International relations theories: discipline and diversity. Sixth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Kušić K (2024) What’s in a Land Grab?: Knowing Dispossession and Land in Southeast Europe. In: Felix Anderl (ed) Epistemologies of Land. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Kušić K (2022) Land politics and conflict. In O. Richmond, G. Visoka (eds), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

Kušić K (2020) Interpretation by proxy? Interpretive fieldwork with local associates in areas of restricted research access. In: Bliesemann de Guevara B and Bøås M (eds) Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

Kušić K (2020) I Don’t Know What to do with Myself: ‘I’ as a tool, a voice, and an object in writing. In: Kušić K and Záhora J (eds) Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Bristol: E-International Relations.

Kušić K and Záhora J (2020) Fieldwork, Failure, IR. In Kušić K and Záhora J (eds) Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Bristol: E-International Relations. pp. 1-16.

Kušić K, Lottholz P and Manolova P (2019) From dialogue to practice: Pathways towards decoloniality in Southeast Europe. In: Kušić K, Lottholz P and Manolova P (eds) (2019) Decolonial Theory and Practice in Southeast Europe. Sofia: dVERSIA. pp. 7-52.


Other

2024. Research Centre for the History of Transformations podcast: Studying Land in Southeast Europe.

2023. My First (Almost) Extinction Event. Women* Write the Balkans.

2022. Materialities of inequality and the epistemic potential of SEE. BISA South East Europe Working Group blog series.

2022. Land on the Move: Inequality and Consolidation of Agricultural Land in Serbia. With Slađana Lazić. LeftEast.

2022. Lessons for the “Green” Transition: Learning from Cooperatives in Former Yugoslavia. Berliner Gazette. After Extractivism - BG 2022.

2020. Fieldwork as Failure podcast on Opinion Peace, podcast by the Centre for Peace Studies, UiT.

2019. Early career interview, E-International Relations.


Book Reviews

Kušić K (2025) Review: White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality along the Balkan Route, written by Piro Rexhepi. Southeastern Europe. 48(2-3), pp. 447-448.

Kušić K (2023) Review: Peace and security in the Balkans: a local perspective by Nemanja Džuverović and Věra Stojarová. Peacebuilding, 11(3), pp. 482-484.

Kušić K (2021) Book review: Socioeconomic Justice: International Intervention and Transition in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina by Daniela Lai. Studies of Transition States and Societies, 13:1, pp. 80–2.

Kušić K (2020) Book review: Extremism and Violent Extremism in Serbia: 21st Century Manifestations of an Historical Challenge by Valery Perry (ed). Slavic Review, 79:3 (2020), pp. 665–7.

Kušić K (2020) Book Review: Seeing Politics: Film, Visual Method, and International Relations by Sophie HarmanLSE Review of Books.

Kušić K (2017) Book review: The Politics of Transnational Peasant Struggle by Robin Dunford, Journal of Critical Studies (3), pp. 50-54.


Forums

Vogel B, Džuverović N,Tripathi S, Kušić K, Zapata M.L.,Ramachandran S, Dhungana N, and Taithe B (2024) “Upholding Hierarchies of Knowledge Production: Mundane Obstacles to Global International Relations.” International Studies Perspectives, December, ekae025.

Johais E., Leser J., Kušić K., Eggeling K. A., Weißenfels A., Streinzer A., Davey R., Kocks J., Anderl F., Merkle L., Leser J., & Leander A. (2024). Forum: Critical Ethnography. Public Anthropologist, 6 (1), 125–199.