Labinot Greiçevci is a Senior Research Fellow at CIFE and the Executive Director of the Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA). With over 12 years of teaching experience at higher education institutions in Kosovo, Belgium and broader Europe, he specializes in international affairs and state-building, the European Union’s external affairs and enlargement policy, and the EU-Western Balkans relations. He received an MA in Political Science (European Politics and Public Policy) from the University of Manchester (2006) and a PhD in Political Science from Ghent University (2011). He has held research positions at renowned institutions, such as an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Politics at the University of Manchester, a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, etc. His extensive research has been published in prominent journals, including European Foreign Affairs Review and Perspectives on European Politics and Society. Among other journals, he also served as a reviewer for the Journal of European Integration, published by Taylor and Francis, and Foreign Policy Analysis, published by Oxford University Press. He is a member of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). He speaks regularly at European and international academic events and conferences on a range of EU’s global role and state-building topics and plays an active role in organizing such events. His recent book, The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo, published by Routledge, has been launched and presented at various European institutions and universities, including the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Sciences Po – Centre de recherches internationales (CERI), and SEESOX at Oxford University.

Selected Publications:

Books and Journal Articles
 Labinot Greiçevci. (Forthcoming Book, June 2025). The EU-Western Balkans Future Relations: Exploring Alternative Scenarios. London: Palgrave.

 Labinot Greiçevci. (Forthcoming Book Chapter, April-May 2025). ‘The US Impact on the Future of Europe: Views from Kosovo, the Newest State in Europe’ in M. Kaeding, J. Pollak and P. Schmidt (eds.) The USA and the Future of Europe: Views from the Capitals, Zurich: Springer.
 Labinot Greiçevci. The EU as a State-builder in International Affairs: The Case of Kosovo. London: Routledge. (November 2021).
 Labinot Greiçevci and Qerim Qerimi. ‘Introduction’, Journal of European and International Affairs, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2013), pp.5-8.
 Labinot Greiçevci. ‘EU Actorness in International Affairs: The Case of EULEX Mission in Kosovo’, Perspectives on European Politics and Society, Volume 12,  Issue 3 (2011), pp. 283-303.
 Labinot Greiçevci. ‘The Case of Kosovo: International State-building from a pending final political status to an independent country’, ISIG Journal - Quarterly of International Sociology, Volume 18, Issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 69-77.

 Labinot Greiçevci. ‘The Case of Kosovo: From ‘international state-building’ to an ‘internationally supervised’ and independent country’, L’Europe en Formation, Issue 3, No. 349-350 (2008), pp. 189-203.
 Labinot Greiçevci. ‘Assessing the role of the High Representative or EU Special Representative in the process of state-building in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Escaping the weak or failed state paradigm!’, Journal of Human Rights and Policy, Volume 1 (2008), pp. 101-110.
 Dimitris Papadimitriou, Petar Petrov, and Labinot Greiçevci. ‘To Build a State: Europeanization, EU Actorness, and State-Building in Kosovo’, European Foreign Affairs Review, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2007) pp. 219 – 238.

Notes de recherche and Research Reports:

2024 -  ‘Vox Populi on the -Peace Trail- between Kosovo and Serbia’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA).

2019 - ‘The Substance and Status of Implementation of Kosovo-Serbia Dialogue Agreements’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA).

2018 - ‘Scenarios for the ‘Grand Finale’ between Kosovo and Serbia’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA) and BPRG.

2016 - ‘An assessment of post-visa-liberalization challenges in the Western Balkans’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA).

2013 - ‘Kosovo’s Rocky Road to the EU - Stabilization and Association Agreement: Challenges and Opportunities’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA).

2012 - ‘Consolidating Kosovo’s Statehood: Processes, Problems, and Perspectives’, Research Institute of Development and European Affairs (RIDEA) and Centre for International Studies (University of Oxford).

2010 - ‘EU and the Western Balkans in retrospective and perspective: Between Limbo and Enlargement Fatigue’,  Centre for EU Studies (Ghent University), European University of Tirana and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (University of Manchester).