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Emilija Tudzarovska is an Assistant Professor in Modern European Politics in the Department of European Studies at the Institute of International Studies (IMS) at Charles University. She holds a PhD from Charles University as part of "PLATO" (Horizon 2020), a European network of leading research universities investigating "The Post-Crisis Legitimacy of the European Union", obtained as an MSCA Scholar. Previously, she worked at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, where she is an associate researcher. 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. She is co-convenor of the UACES Research Network “Re-thinking Europe's East-West Divide” (2024-2026)
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 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. 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 and 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.