Biography

Miranda Loli is a political scientist, specializing in international relations. Her research explores the role of international organizations; she has a keen interest in how local non-governmental actors make space for themselves in the international arena. At the EUI, Miranda will be revising her PhD dissertation into a book, and preparing publications for her new project examining how recovery during a war is contested and negotiated in practice.
Miranda completed her PhD in 2023 at the University of Darmstadt with a dissertation titled ‘The Translocality of Anti-Corruption Practices: Encounters between the Local and the International in Kosovo and Ukraine’, exploring the intersection between the global fight against corruption and security. Bridging political geography and IR, she introduces a framework to study interactions between different localities and how they affect global governance.
For her project on international cooperation and resilient recovery initiatives in Ukraine, she was selected for the Charlemagne Prize Academy. Her research has been supported by grants from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST), the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the International Studies Association (ISA). Prior to her PhD, Miranda studied political science, peace and conflict studies, and sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Frankfurt. She has designed and taught several courses on the politics of expertise in global governance, international organizations, and the European Union.

Fields of expertise

• Southeastern Europe