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Muhamet Brajshori

@mbrajshori.bsky.social
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Entrepreneur | Lecturer | Former Ambassador | Reaganite | Writing on diplomacy, history & power.

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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Read Campbell’s “The Man Who Stole the Gods”, a fascinating account of how Cambodia’s art and monuments were looted, taken to Bangkok, and sold to collectors around the world. It’s also a story of restitution, how New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed to return a stolen object to Cambodia.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Published “Managing Divided Sovereignties: Parallel Membership in International Society,” in the Journal of International Relations & Development. The article develops the concept of parallel membership to explain how international society manages competing sovereignty claims without resolving them.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Appeared this week before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs to discuss the security situation in the Western Balkans. It was a pleasure to join Ambassador Kryeziu & @gezimvisoka.bsky.social in an important discussion on regional stability. 🇨🇦🇽🇰
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Spoke at the “Bridges of Memory: Reconciliation and Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict Societies” conference in Prishtina. A valuable discussion on the role of media, memory, and reconciliation alongside Anna Di Lellio, Dan Perry, and Davide Lerner, moderated by Tim Judah of the @economist.com.
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Australian Journal of International Affairs @austjia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨New online! "Beyond recognition: the adaptive association model and postcolonial sovereignty from the Cook Islands and Niue to New Caledonia", by Muhamet Brajshori. ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This article presents the Adaptive Association Model (AAM) to explain how non-sovereign polities in free association can establish international legal personality and diplomatic agency in the absence of full statehood or United Nations membership. Utilising the Cook Islands and Niue as case studies, it delineates four mechanisms (selective engagement, contextual
sovereignty,
institutional pragmatism, and systemic adaptability) through which functional sovereignty manifests. The article places the AAM within three domains of international relations scholarship: non-standard sovereignty, small states and partial independence,
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performative approaches to statehood. It contends that free association, when it involves authentic transfers of sovereign competencies and facilitates independent institutional participation,
represents a sustainable and legitimate form of post-colonial self-determination rather than a temporary deviation. The New Caledonian case exemplifies a negative comparator, underscoring the model's limitations in the absence of its structural conditions. In general, the article goes beyond binary ideas of sovereignty and adds to discussions about graduated and functional sovereignty.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I’m delighted to share that my latest article has been published in the Australian Journal of International Affairs: “Beyond Recognition: The Adaptive Association Model and Postcolonial Sovereignty from the Cook Islands and Niue to New Caledonia.” url6649.tandfonline.com/ls/click?upn...
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
"By debunking myths and addressing grievances, democratic leaders will not eliminate authoritarian nostalgia altogether...[but they can] make it harder for former dictators and their children to ride authoritarian nostalgia to high office." muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My latest article has been published in Contemporary Arab Affairs, “Symbolic Membership and Aspirational Sovereignty: Palestine and the Politics of International Organization Participation” It explores how contested states use IO’s to advance claims to statehood & legitimacy. doi.org/10.1163/1755...
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 25/04/2026
Read @lianafix.bsky.social on how Germany’s rearmament could foster competition and erode stability across Europe:
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Europe’s Next Hegemon
The perils of German power.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Liberal democracy isn’t over, it’s being tested. What can be crushed is illiberalism masquerading as democracy. The real fight isn’t democracy vs. decline, but democracy vs. distortion. #Hungary
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Memory is never neutral. My review of Hofmeister’s Remembering Suffering and Resistance examines how the Serbian Orthodox Church shapes narratives of suffering, resistance, and national identity. Published in @sudosteuropa.bsky.social Mitteilungen (2025).
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
In my latest book review, I discuss @gezimvisoka.bsky.social & @rameshg.bsky.social “Sub-State Recognition: The Politics of Recognition from Below”, a powerful challenge to the state-centric orthodoxy of recognition and a major contribution to sovereignty studies. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RRISX...
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Sub-State Recognition: The Politics of Recognition from Below
Published in Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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FPA Journal @fpajrnl.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Visoka and Brajshori (2025) show that aspirant states like Kosovo use protean power—adaptability, innovation, and improvisation—to navigate barriers to recognition and gain partial legitimacy in international organizations. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/...
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
At 32, Mart Laar set out to defy the Soviet model, armed with one economics book, Free to Choose, and the conviction that all Marxist texts were wrong. The result was Estonia, a modern state built in record time. Happy Restoration of Independence Day #Estonia 🇪🇪!
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
My review of Ukshini’s book “Roli i Politikës së Jashtme të Gjermanisë ndaj Kosovës 1990–2008” is out now in Comparative Southeast European Studies. The book is in Albanian a contribution to SEE studies, grounded in German sources & rich in historical insight. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Sylë Ukshini: Roli i Politikës së Jashtme të Gjermanisë ndaj Kosovës 1990–2008
Article Sylë Ukshini: Roli i Politikës së Jashtme të Gjermanisë ndaj Kosovës 1990–2008 was published on June 1, 2025 in the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 73, issue 2).
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Meine Rezension zu @gezimvisoka.bsky.social Buch “The Derecognition of States” ist soeben in @sudosteuropa.bsky.social Mitteilungen (04/2025) erschienen. Das Buch bietet eine wegweisende Analyse der Aberkennung als diplomatische Praxis, die Staaten mit begrenzter Anerkennung prägt.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
In the latest issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, I reviewed @gezimvisoka.bsky.social book “The Derecognition of States”, a pioneering work on the politics and practice of derecognition in International Relations. brill.com/view/journal...
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
And also my other article published in the Journal of European Integration History: “Navigating Kosovo’s International Organisations Membership: Assessing EU Member States’ Shifting Positions”. www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/0...
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Here you can find my recently published article in the European Review of International Studies: “Performing Sovereignty: Kosovo and the Strategies of International Integration for States with Limited Recognition”. brill.com/view/journal...
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Here my latest article published in the Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies. It examines how a handful of states leverage their influence in IO’s to hinder Kosovo’s membership, revealing the impact of politicization on IO’s. ojs.library.carleton.ca/index.php/CJ...
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View of The Politicization of International Organizations: Obstruction of Kosovo's Membership by Non-Recognizing States | Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
For almost 3 decades, Kosovo has benefited from a world order that enabled its liberation, independence, security & international recognition. But that same liberal order that made the modern Kosovo is fading. Whether Kosovo can wisely navigate what comes next remains to be seen.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Robert C. Austin’s “Royal Fraud: The Story of Albania’s First and Last King” is a well-summarized account of a critical period in Albanian history. While engaging, it doesn’t offer new insights beyond existing scholarship. A good read, but not groundbreaking.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
In 2008, 5 EU member states chose to align their stance on Kosovo with Moscow rather than Washington. It was the EU that used the Konstantin Kosachev- Marty report as a tool to undermine Kosovo. And now, the same Europe expects to fight Russia—until the last American soldier.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
In Kosovo, we’re still stuck navigating our never-ending provincial complexities—no rush. We’ll have plenty of time to grab popcorn and watch the big geopolitical blockbuster unfolding in Europe later.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Coffee, a book, and #Prishtina’s everyday buzz. Simple moments.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Kosovo is about to face a harsh reality: the world of 1999 and 2008 is long gone. Unless its political elites recognize the new global landscape, they are leading the country toward a rude awakening. In foreign policy, naivety is never the norm!
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
By 2030, it is highly plausible that Kosovo, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina will come to be referred to as the Adriatic Hinterland, marking a shift from the “Western Balkans” narrative to one of geographical liminality. By that time, it appears the Adriatic…
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Culture shapes geopolitics. Prussia’s wars with Russia coexisted with shared ties, like czarist commanders of Prussian origin. As U.S. commitment to Europe wavers, Germany’s path becomes uncertain—caught between history, identity, and shifting alliances.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Tanpınar once wrote that “the East is a place to sit and wait.” But history shifts its center of gravity over time & now “Europe has become a place to sit and wait.” It is a capture of the cyclical nature of historical momentum, where civilizations rise, evolve & pause, awaiting their next chapter.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
As the year ends, I’m looking back on the books I read and revisited in 2024. From tech and politics to history and fiction, here’s my 2024 reading list.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
35 years ago, the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) was founded—the first Albanian democratic political party in Southeast Europe & the largest political movement in Kosovo’s history. Under Ibrahim Rugova’s leadership, it internationalized Kosovo’s struggle & laid foundations for independence.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Serbia has interest in escalating tensions now to divert attention from its domestic challenges & exploit transition in Washington. A new phase in the continuation of the Banjska attack & #Serbia's state-sponsored terrorism. Also it will hugely exploit the deep polarized landscape in #Kosovo further
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Yuval Noah Hariri: History is often shaped not by deterministic power relations, but rather by tragic mistakes that result from believing in mesmerising but harmful stories.
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Muhamet Brajshori @mbrajshori.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Chants of “Kosovo is Serbia” have become a common occurrence at football matches across Europe whenever Kosovo’s national team is. The chanting has grown more frequent and aggressive, even extending to matches where Kosovo-born players represent other national teams.
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