Research Interest

My research lines bring together multidisciplinary research in EU contemporary politics, EU democratic legitimacy, party democracy and EU economic governance with a focus on the aspect of legitimization, the state and societal transformations and crisis of legitimization/democratic representation. 

My background includes active practice in politics and policy-making (2007-2017) and academic excellence (MCSA Fellow), using comparative case studies and qualitative methods that served me to publish with Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan among others. It also served me to deliver teaching excellence to European students| Erasmus+ program and to also share my long-term practice of working with leading international organizations such as Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) - British Embassy in Skopje, and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS, Germany) among others, covering a variety of political and economic fields.

I have led UK-funded, EU-funded and German-funded projects and programs with a focus on Europeanization and democratization in the Western Balkans, International Relations and Innovative Economies. As a Board Member of the political-economic journal “Political Thought” (KAS) I had covered different disciplines and research fields including party democratization, national parliaments and democratization, social market economy, EU-NATO integration. 

As part of my current research activities, I’m working on the rise of technocratic governance in the EU, EU democratic legitimacy and crises of legitimation/crisis of representative democracies in the EU, with focus on the role of the political parties and the oversight role of the national parliaments. I also investigate the historical processes of the EU integration process: the EU enlargement, party politics and EU economic governance. This includes research and publications on: populism, anti-system politics, EU technocratic governance and the surveillance role of the national parliaments in AI.