Shpend Kursani
Biographic Data
| ID | 1118077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shpend Kursani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shpend |
| FAMILY NAME | Kursani |
| SIGNATURE | KURSANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7763-4250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes
The politics of digital recognition of states
The International Relations literature has long argued, as has international law scholarship, that state recognition is the prerogative only of established states: non-state actors hold no such prerogative. Yet, what the existing literature ignores is how the expansion of the transnational digital landscape is transforming the dynamics of the practice of state recognition. In the contemporary age, is it more relevant that a putative state is reco…
Costs of International Recognition
There is a wide consensus in literature that universal recognition comes with many benefits for the recognised state entities. The article aims to revisit the benefits of recognition by focusing on its costs. It does so by adopting an analytical lens that views state contenders’ international environment as one of ‘negotiated statehood’. The article shows how emerging state contenders must navigate this onerous environment to achieve universal re…
Why Do People Use Informal Justice? Experimental Evidence from Kosovo
Why do some people resolve disputes through the state, while others use religious or customary justice? We address this question by conducting a vignette experiment in Kosovo. We design hypothetical situations in which fictitious characters are involved in disputes regarding inheritance, debt, domestic violence, and murder. We vary information concerning (i) vignette characters’ resources, (ii) their beliefs about the efficiency of state justice,…
Back to the Future
This article examines recent Great Powers’ revisionist attempts at challenging the post–World War II norm of territorial integrity. These attempts may invigorate sovereignty claims in the old-time fashion of buying, swapping, or annexing territories. We show that recent dynamics in international politics speak a language that challenges the status quo consensus in territorial matters. While the article focuses mainly on the evidence during the pe…
Beyond Putin’s Analogies
Frustrated Aspirations and Different Types of Political Violence
What are society’s views on the drivers of religious extremism and other types of political violence? We address this question by conducting a large-N vignette experiment in Kosovo. We expose a random sample of the population to hypothetical situations that describe other people’s engagement in religious extremism, ethnic riots, and violent protest. We find that frustrated aspirations of vignette characters—signaled as a mismatch between the char…
Land for peace
De facto states represent an anomalous sovereign condition. Their parent states are unable to regain control over the territory that de facto states possess, while the de facto states are unable to secure widespread recognition of their self-determination claims without the consent of their parent states. Kosovo and Serbia have recently entertained the idea of making territorial adjustments through which a settlement between the two parties can b…
Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations
Most would agree that the recent emergence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in Ukraine, and perhaps the Islamic State, will soon find their place in the already growing literature on contested states. Yet, despite the historical and present importance of these entities for the study of alternative forms of political authority, sovereignty, statehood, international legitimacy, as well as wars within and between states, there is very little agr…
Salafi pluralism in national contexts
This article explores the question of how Albanian Salafi Muslims have engaged with and provided religious interpretations to issues peculiar to Albanians’ historical and sociopolitical context, as well as considering the ethnic group’s recent engagement in Middle Eastern conflicts. Utilizing Salafism’s doctrinal concepts of takfir (excommunication of another Muslim) and al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (loyalty and disavowal) as guiding analytical tools, the…
Foreign policy coordination vis-à-vis the international norm of sovereignty
Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations
Most would agree that the recent emergence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in Ukraine, and perhaps the Islamic State, will soon find their place in the already growing literature on contested states. Yet, despite the historical and present importance of these entities for the study of alternative forms of political authority, sovereignty, statehood, international legitimacy, as well as wars within and between states, there is very little agr…
Why Do People Use Informal Justice? Experimental Evidence from Kosovo
Why do some people resolve disputes through the state, while others use religious or customary justice? We address this question by conducting a vignette experiment in Kosovo. We design hypothetical situations in which fictitious characters are involved in disputes regarding inheritance, debt, domestic violence, and murder. We vary information concerning (i) vignette characters’ resources, (ii) their beliefs about the efficiency of state justice,…
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes
The politics of digital recognition of states
The International Relations literature has long argued, as has international law scholarship, that state recognition is the prerogative only of established states: non-state actors hold no such prerogative. Yet, what the existing literature ignores is how the expansion of the transnational digital landscape is transforming the dynamics of the practice of state recognition. In the contemporary age, is it more relevant that a putative state is reco…
Back to the Future
This article examines recent Great Powers’ revisionist attempts at challenging the post–World War II norm of territorial integrity. These attempts may invigorate sovereignty claims in the old-time fashion of buying, swapping, or annexing territories. We show that recent dynamics in international politics speak a language that challenges the status quo consensus in territorial matters. While the article focuses mainly on the evidence during the pe…
Foreign policy coordination vis-à-vis the international norm of sovereignty
Foreign policy coordination vis-à-vis the international norm of sovereignty
Salafi pluralism in national contexts
This article explores the question of how Albanian Salafi Muslims have engaged with and provided religious interpretations to issues peculiar to Albanians’ historical and sociopolitical context, as well as considering the ethnic group’s recent engagement in Middle Eastern conflicts. Utilizing Salafism’s doctrinal concepts of takfir (excommunication of another Muslim) and al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (loyalty and disavowal) as guiding analytical tools, the…
Land for peace
De facto states represent an anomalous sovereign condition. Their parent states are unable to regain control over the territory that de facto states possess, while the de facto states are unable to secure widespread recognition of their self-determination claims without the consent of their parent states. Kosovo and Serbia have recently entertained the idea of making territorial adjustments through which a settlement between the two parties can b…
Reconsidering the Contested State in Post-1945 International Relations
Most would agree that the recent emergence of the Donetsk and Lugansk Republics in Ukraine, and perhaps the Islamic State, will soon find their place in the already growing literature on contested states. Yet, despite the historical and present importance of these entities for the study of alternative forms of political authority, sovereignty, statehood, international legitimacy, as well as wars within and between states, there is very little agr…
Why Do People Use Informal Justice? Experimental Evidence from Kosovo
Why do some people resolve disputes through the state, while others use religious or customary justice? We address this question by conducting a vignette experiment in Kosovo. We design hypothetical situations in which fictitious characters are involved in disputes regarding inheritance, debt, domestic violence, and murder. We vary information concerning (i) vignette characters’ resources, (ii) their beliefs about the efficiency of state justice,…
Back to the Future
This article examines recent Great Powers’ revisionist attempts at challenging the post–World War II norm of territorial integrity. These attempts may invigorate sovereignty claims in the old-time fashion of buying, swapping, or annexing territories. We show that recent dynamics in international politics speak a language that challenges the status quo consensus in territorial matters. While the article focuses mainly on the evidence during the pe…
Beyond Putin’s Analogies
Frustrated Aspirations and Different Types of Political Violence
What are society’s views on the drivers of religious extremism and other types of political violence? We address this question by conducting a large-N vignette experiment in Kosovo. We expose a random sample of the population to hypothetical situations that describe other people’s engagement in religious extremism, ethnic riots, and violent protest. We find that frustrated aspirations of vignette characters—signaled as a mismatch between the char…
Costs of International Recognition
There is a wide consensus in literature that universal recognition comes with many benefits for the recognised state entities. The article aims to revisit the benefits of recognition by focusing on its costs. It does so by adopting an analytical lens that views state contenders’ international environment as one of ‘negotiated statehood’. The article shows how emerging state contenders must navigate this onerous environment to achieve universal re…
How do ‘Frozen Conflicts’ over Territory Defrost? A Three-tier Analysis of Peace, War, and Status Quo Outcomes
The politics of digital recognition of states
The International Relations literature has long argued, as has international law scholarship, that state recognition is the prerogative only of established states: non-state actors hold no such prerogative. Yet, what the existing literature ignores is how the expansion of the transnational digital landscape is transforming the dynamics of the practice of state recognition. In the contemporary age, is it more relevant that a putative state is reco…
Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Sovereignty (4 works)