Miranda Loli
Dr. Miranda Loli
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Miranda Loli is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen and a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. From 2024 to 2026 she was a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI's Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, and in 2023 she was selected for the Charlemagne Prize Academy for her project on international cooperation and resilient recovery in Ukraine. She received her PhD in Political Science from the University of Darmstadt in 2023, after studying Political Science, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Sociology and LMU Munich and Goethe University Franfurt.
Her research revolved around international organizations, expertise and the role of local non-governmental actors in global politics. Bringing political geography into conversation with International Relations, she develops a framework for understanding how encounters between localities shape global governance. Her dissertation “The Translocality of Anti-Corruption Practices in Kosovo and Ukraine” traced such encounters in the field of anti-corruption. She is currently completing her first book and preparing publications for a new project on how recovery during war is contedted and negotiated in practice.
Her research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), COST, UNODC and the International Studies Association. She has designed and taught courses on corruption and security, expertise in global governance, international organizations, the European Union and qualitative methods.
International organizations and non-state actors in world politics
Knowledge, Expertise and Authority in global governance
International Political Sociology and Practice Theory
Transnational corruption and the global politics of anti-corruption
Reconstruction governance during and after war
Ethnographic and qualitative methods, fieldwork in conflict settings
Max Weber Fellowship, European University Institute, 2024–2026
Principal Investigator, FORGE (Forging Reconstruction Governance: Global Networks, Authority and Institutions), European University Institute, 2026
EUI Early Career Funding for Workshops, Fieldwork in Conflict Settings, 2026
Charlemagne Prize Academy Fellowship, 2023–2024
Travel grants, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, 2022, 2024 and 2025
Team member, grant for improving teaching at TU Darmstadt, project "Technology and International Development" (PI: Jens Steffek), 2019–2024
Grant for exploratory workshops, workshop "Corruption and Conflict as Interrelated Issues", 2018
Grant for the Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2017
PhD Scholarship, Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt, 2016–2019
Scholarship, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), B.A. and M.A. studies, 2009–2016
Book project
Loli, M. Battlegrounds and Bureaucracies: The Global Politics of Fighting Corruption during and after War. Single-authored monograph. In preparation
Journal articles
Published
Loli, M. (2018). Self-legitimation patterns in the inequality–corruption nexus. Crime, Law and Social Change, 68(4), 383–407. doi:10.1007/s10611-017-9729-8
Forthcoming
Hofius, M. & Loli, M. Siting Practices in Praxiology: On Visibilising Power in Space. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, special issue "Just Practicing a Turn – or Actually Turning the Practice?", eds. M. Hofius & F. Gadinger. (accepted, forthcoming)
In Revision
Loli, M. Double Agents of Expertise: Translocal Politics, Contestation and Disjunct Registers of Affiliation in Peacebuilding. (Revisions submitted)
Loli, M. Translocal Communities of Practice: Navigating Movement between and within EU CSDP Missions. (Under review)
Menzel, A., Reiners, N., Salehi, M. & Loli, M. Uncomfortable Knowledge. International Political Sociology. (Under review)
Working Paper (in preparation)
Loli, M. Emplaced Practices: A Case Study of the High Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine.
Loli, M. "Archiving the Present": Practices of Community Archiving in Ukraine in the Wake of the Full-Scale War.
Book chapters
Loli, M. (2026). The Board of Peace, Transatlantic Loyalties, and the Monetisation of Diplomacy. In The (Geo)politics of Democracy in Wider Europe: The Transatlantic Rift. Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre.
Loli, M. & Schwickerath, A. (2026). Navigating Corruption and Conflict: International Responses and Emerging Research Pathways. In P. M. Heywood (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Political Corruption, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.
Loli, M. (2025). Inside Out: Internal and External Pressures in the Western Balkans amidst Global Transformations and Counter-Peace Dynamics. In Geopolitics of Democracy in Wider Europe. Robert Schuman Centre Series.
Kubbe, I. & Loli, M. (2020). Corruption and Populism: The Linkage. In A. Mungiu-Pippidi & P. M. Heywood (eds.), A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption (pp. 142–157). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Reiff, A., Hirth, J., Weil, K. & Loli, M. (2017). Excellence Goes to Congo: The Power Structure of Academia between North and South. A Case Study of the Master of Microfinance. In G. Schlichte, J. Leinius & M. Fielitz (eds.), Knowledge, Normativity and Power in Academia: Critical Interventions. Frankfurt am Main: Campus.
Policy papers and reports
Kotevska, B., Loli, M. & Mesarovich, A. (2026). Leverage Lost? The Geopolitics of EU Conditionality and the Transatlantic Rift. European University Institute.
Loli, M. (2025). Reconstruction amidst War: Governing Recovery Planning in Ukraine. In Report on the Future of the Union: 75 Years, Charlemagne Foundation Annual Report 2024, pp. 78–95.
Loli, M. (2024). Stock-taking on Anti-Corruption in Ukraine. Charlemagne Report.
ICRN (2021). Contribution to the Special Session of the UN General Assembly against Corruption (UNGASS 2021), invited by UNODC.
Loli, M. & Ismajli, R. R. (2019). Add Women and Stir? Exploring the Gendered Dimension of Corruption.
Book reviews
Loli, M. Review of Nora Fisher-Onar, Contesting Pluralism(s): Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond. International Studies Review. 2026
Invited talks
“Local Peace”. Conflict Peace and Security Seminar. Geneva Graduate Institute, November 2026.
"EU Practices of Rebuilding Ukraine: Reconstruction amidst Destruction, Dissonance amidst Hope." ValEUs Research Network on Contestations to EU Foreign Policy, University of Florence, 28 November 2024.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCmjieq8xPw
"Practices of Fighting Corruption in Kosovo and Ukraine." International Relations Research Group, European University Institute, November 2019.
Workshops organised
"Fieldwork in Conflict Settings" (with Nataska Rupesinghe and participants from Sciences Po, University of Oslo and LSE), European University Institute, 20 May 2026.
"War and Infrastructure: The Role of Infrastructure in Conflict and Security" (with Simone Tholens and Jelena Džankić), Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, 13 December 2024.
"Corruption and Conflict as Interrelated Issues," exploratory workshop, 2018.
Selected conference presentations
"Anticipatory Governance and Trustworthy AI," Trust AI Consortium, University of Oslo / EUI, Florence, May 2026.
"While Rockets Fly, Cement Gets Delivered: Politics of Infrastructures and Digital Ecosystems in Ukraine," EISA Pan-European Conference, Bologna, 2025.
"Knowledge in International Relations: Epistemic Struggles in a Complex World," paper, and "International Practices: Boundary Work in Global Politics," roundtable, EISA, Bologna, 2025.
"Battlegrounds and Bureaucracies," book manuscript presentation, IR Working Group (Jeffrey Checkel and Stefano Guzzini), EUI, March 2025.
"The Multidimensionality of the Russian War against Ukraine and the EU's Reaction," School of Transnational Governance, EUI, May 2025.
"Ukraine Recovery: Building Back Better?," Global Governance Programme, Robert Schuman Centre, EUI, February 2025.
"Translocal Communities of Practice: Towards a Framework for Researching International–Local Encounters," EISA, Potsdam, September 2023.
"Who Is the Local? An Analysis of the Concept of the Local in International Relations," ISA Annual Convention, Nashville, March 2022.
University of Bremen
International Political Sociology (M.A./B.A) 2026/27
Corruption, Conflict, Security (M.A./B.A) 2026/27
European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences
Fieldwork for PhD Students (doctoral level), 2026
International Relations Track, EUI SPS Academy (M.A level), 2026
TU Darmstadt and Goethe University Frankfurt, Joint M.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies
The Politics of International Expertise (M.A.), 2022–2023
International Anticorruption Norms and Practices (M.A.), 2022
Corruption and International Development (M.A., interdisciplinary), 2021
Life in the Pandemic Age: What Will Remain from COVID-19? (M.A., interdisciplinary, in German), 2021
Technology and the Sustainable Development Goals (M.A., interdisciplinary), 2019–2020
Expertise in International Development (M.A.), 2018–2019
"The Board of Peace, Transatlantic Loyalties, and the Monetisation of Diplomacy." EUalive (with the EUI), 6 October 2026.
"Rebuilding under Fire: Time and Reconstruction in Wartime Ukraine." EUIResearch interview, European University Institute, 21 May 2026.