Emilija Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska, Ph.D.

Emilija Tudzarovska is an Assistant Professor in Modern European Politics, Department of European Studies, Institute of International Studies (IMS). She obtained her PhD as an MSCA Fellow from Charles University in 2021 as part of "PLATO" (Horizon 2020), a European network of leading research universities investigating "The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union". Since 2017, she has worked as an MSCA Research Scholar at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, and later as a researcher until 2025. Since 2026, she is an external collaborator at SOU, Czech Academy of Sciences. She obtained her MA in International Politics from the CERIS Diplomatic School of Brussels & Collège d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires, Université Paris Sud, France and her MSc in Educational Management from "Ss. Cyril and Methodius" Skopje.

She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Leiden University, as part of the European Politics and Society (EPS) Program. Since 2024, she has been co-convenor of the UACES Research Network “Re-thinking Europe's East-West Divide”. 

Her research interests span the disciplines of comparative politics, international relations and contemporary European history. Her research focuses on the comparative study of state-society relations in Western and Eastern European societies, looking in particular at the political, economic and state transformations in Europe, the dynamics of state sovereignty, the transformation of national political and party systems, and the tensions between representative democracies and economic governance.

Prior to her academic career, she held senior research and policy positions in international organizations and diplomatic institutions. She served as Head of Research in International Relations at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP). Between 2007 and 2017, she led foreign policy, governance, and security programs at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (British Embassy Skopje) and at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, where she also served as Chief Editor of the political-economic journal Political Thought. Since 2017, she has been an elected expert member of the Global Initiative Network (GIN), based in Geneva. 

Her scholarly work appears in leading academic outlets, including  Comparative European Politics, European Review of International Studies , as well as in book volumes published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan . Her forthcoming co-edited volume,  Handbook of Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe,  is to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, and provides a comprehensive examination of political and economic transformations across the region.

She regularly contributes expert commentary to international policy and media platforms, including  Social Europe, Politics and Rights Review, International Politics and Society , ECPR blogs, and has been cited in the  Financial Times . 

Visiting research and teaching stays (2018-2026):

2026, Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, EPS, NL

2024, Cambridge University, CRASSH, Minderoo, Cambridge, UK

2018, University of Oslo, ARENA, Department of European Studies, Oslo

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0443-0695

Monographs

• Agha P., Drulák P., Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska E., Salecl R., Azmanova A., & Cercel C. (2025). Velvet Capitalism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. Routledge.

Chapters in monographs

• Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska E. (2022). Legitimation strategies and national parliaments. The politics of legitimation in the European Union: legitimacy recovered? (pp. nestránkováno).
• Tudzarovska E. (2026). The politics of periphery and the EU enlargement. Velvet Capitalism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (pp. 18-31).

Articles

• Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska E. (2020). The 'Silent Guardians' in the Fight against Corruption: The Case of North Macedonia. Central European Public Administration Review, 18(1), 165-184. UT-WOS link
• Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska E. (2025). The rise of technocratic politics in the EU: the legacies of neoliberalism. Comparative European Politics, 23(4), 576-592. UT-WOS link

Contributions in the conference proceedings

• Tudjarovska Gjorgjievska E. (2018). Knowledge-based economies, public administration reforms, and throughput legitimacy: possible linkages. The 26th NISPAcee Annual Conference E-Proceedings (pp. 140-158).

JSM763 Introduction to Theories in the EU Integration
JSM777 Comparative EU politics: tensions in democratic representation
JSM737 Contemporary EU politics: the political and economic development
JSM376 The functioning of the European Union: politics and policy decision-making
JSM373 Party Democracy in the EU: Crises and Consequences

UACES Research Network: "Re-thinking Europe's East-West Divide" (2024-2025): https://www.uaces.org/networks/rethinking-europes-east-west-divide

EU politics, democratization, state-transformation, EU political economy,

EU Modern Politics, EU comparative politics, EU policy-making, EU Economic Governance, EU Modern History