JOURNAL ARTICLES

Steele, Brent J. and Jelena Subotic. Forthcoming. “The Ontological Security Politics of US Naval Ship Museums.” Journal of Global Security Studies.

Luft, Aliza and Jelena Subotic. 2024. “Ethics of Archives: Improving Historical Social Science Through the Consideration of Research on Violence.” Social Science History [published Online First].

Jackson, Christopher and Jelena Subotic. 2024. “Public architecture and ontological security in international politics.” Millennium [published Online First]. 

Steele, Brent J. and Jelena Subotic. 2024. “Icons and Ontological (In)security.” European Journal of International Security. 9(2), 143-159.

Vandermaas-Peeler, Alex, Jelena Subotic, and Michael Barnett. 2024. “Constructing Victims: Suffering and Status in Modern World Order.” Review of International Studies50(1), 171-189.

Subotic, Jelena, 2023. “Russia, NATO, and the View from the East.” International Politics [as part of the forum “Putin’s Ukraine Aggression]. 60, 259–263.

Subotic, Jelena. 2023. “Holocaust Memory and Political Legitimacy in Contemporary Europe.” Holocaust Studies 29(4), 502-19.

Subotic, Jelena. 2023. “Scholars and the Politics of International Art Restitution.” Contemporary European History 32(1), 33-37.

Kostovicova, Denisa, Rachel Kerr, Ivor Sokolić, Tiffany Fairey, Henry Redwood, and Jelena Subotić. 2022. “The “digital turn” in transitional justice research: evaluating image and text as data in the Western Balkans.” Comparative Southeast European Studies 70(1), 24-46.

Subotic, Jelena. 2022. “Antisemitism in the global populist International.” The British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 24(3), 458-474.

Subotic, Jelena. 2021. “Holocaust and the Meaning of Srebrenica Genocide: A Reflection on a Controversy.” Journal of Genocide Research. 24(1), 71-82.

Ejdus, Filip and Jelena Subotic (editors of special issue). 2021. Symposium on Anxiety. Journal of International Relations and Development 24(4).

Ejdus, Filip and Jelena Subotic, 2021. “Towards the Existentialist Turn in IR: Introduction to the Symposium on Anxiety.” Journal of International Relations and Development 24(4), 1014–1019.

Yanik, Lerna and Jelena Subotic. 2021. “Cultural Heritage as Status Seeking: The International Politics of Turkey’s Restoration Wave.” Cooperation and Conflict. 56(3), 245–263.

Subotic, Jelena. 2021. “The Promise of Linguistic Ethnography in IR.” International Studies Review [as part of the forum “Interlingual Relations: Approaches, Conflicts, and Lessons in the Translation Of Global Politics”]. 23(3), 1015–1045.

Subotic, Jelena. 2021. “Ethics of Archival Research on Political Violence.” Journal of Peace Research. 58(3), 342-354.

Carlin, Ryan, Gregory Love, Jennifer McCoy and Jelena Subotic. 2020. “Pitfall to Peace: FARC Political Participation and Mass Support for Peace Talks in Colombia.” Journal of Politics in Latin America. 12(3), 323-344.

Subotic, Jelena. 2020. “Foreign Policy and Physical Sites of Memory: Competing Foreign Policies at the Jasenovac Memorial Site.” International Politics. 57(6), 1012-1029.

Subotić, Jelena. 2020. The Appropriation of Holocaust Memory in Post-Communist Eastern EuropeModern Languages Open (1) [as part of special collection “The global crisis in memory: populism, decolonisation and how we remember in the twenty-first century”].

Subotic, Jelena and Srdjan Vucetic. 2019. “Performing Solidarity: Whiteness and Status-seeking in the Non-Aligned World.” Journal of International Relations and Development 22(3).

Subotic, Jelena. 2019. “Political Memory after State Death: The Contested Yugoslav National Pavilion at Auschwitz.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 32(3).

Subotic, Jelena. 2018. “’JAT – More Than Flying’: Constructing Yugoslav Identity in the Air.” East European Politics and Societies 32(4).

Subotic, Jelena and Brent J. Steele. 2018. “Moral Injury in International Relations.” Journal of Global Security Studies 3(4).

Subotic, Jelena. 2018. “Political memory, ontological security, and Holocaust remembrance in post-communist Europe.” European Security 27(3).
[Reprinted in Ontological Insecurity in the European Union, edited by Catarina Kinnvall, Ian Manners, Jennifer Mitzen. London: Routledge, 2020.]

Subotic, Jelena. 2017. “Terrorists are other people: Contested memory of the 1914 Sarajevo assassination.” Australian Journal of Politics and History 63(3).    

Subotic, Jelena. 2017. “Constructivism as a Field of Practice in the US Academy.” PS: Political Science and Politics 50(1).

Subotic, Jelena. 2016. “Narrative, Ontological Security, and Foreign Policy Change.” Foreign Policy Analysis 12(4).

Subotic, Jelena. 2015. “Genocide Narratives as Narratives-in-Dialogue.” Journal of Regional Security, 10(2).

Subotic, Jelena. 2015. “Truth, justice, and reconciliation on the ground: normative divergence in the Western Balkans.” Journal of International Relations and Development, 18(3).

Subotic, Jelena. 2015. “Out of Eastern Europe: Legacies of violence and the challenge of multiple transitions.” East European Politics and Societies, 29(2).

Subotic, Jelena. 2014. “Legitimacy, Scope, and Competing Claims on the ICTY: In the Aftermath of Gotovina, Haradinaj and Perisic.” Journal of Human Rights, 13(2).

Subotic, Jelena. 2013. “Remembrance, Public Narratives, and Obstacles to Justice in the Western Balkans.” Studies in Social Justice, 7(2).
[Revised and reprinted as “Political Memory as an Obstacle to Justice in Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina,” in Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Lessons from the Balkans, edited by Martina Fischer and Olivera Simic. London: Routledge, 2016.]

Subotic, Jelena. 2013. “The Past Is Not Yet Over: Remembrance, Justice and Security Community in the Western Balkans.” Journal of Regional Security, 7(2).

Subotic, Jelena. 2013. “Stories States Tell: Identity, Narrative, and Human Rights in the Balkans.” Slavic Review, 72(2).

Subotic, Jelena and Ayse Zarakol. 2013. “Cultural Intimacy in International Relations.” European Journal of International Relations 19(4).

Subotic, Jelena. 2012. “The Transformation of International Transitional Justice Advocacy.”  International Journal of Transitional Justice 6(1).
[Reprinted in Transitional Justice: Critical Concepts, edited by Louise Mallinder and Kieran McEvoy. London: Routledge, 2016.]

Subotic, Jelena. 2012. “The Cruelty of False Remorse: Biljana Plavsic at The Hague.” Southeastern Europe 36(1).

Subotic, Jelena. 2011. “Europe is a State of Mind: Identity and Europeanization in the Balkans.” International Studies Quarterly 55(2).

Subotic, Jelena. 2011. “Expanding the Scope of Postconflict Justice: Individual, State and Societal Responsibility for Mass Atrocity.”
Journal of Peace Research 48(2).

Jones, Shannon and Jelena Subotic. 2011. “Fantasies of Power: Performing Europeanization on the European Periphery.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 14(5).

Subotic, Jelena. 2010. “Explaining Difficult States: The Problems of Europeanization in Serbia.” East European Politics and Societies 2(4).

Subotic, Jelena. 2010. “No Escape from Ethnicity? Confessions of an Accidental CNN Pundit.” PS: Political Science and Politics 43(1).

Subotic, Jelena. 2009. “The Paradox of International Justice Compliance.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 3(3).

Shiffman Jeremy, Marina Skrabalo and Jelena Subotic. 2002. “Reproductive Rights and the State in Croatia and Serbia.” Social Science and Medicine 54(4).

BOOK CHAPTERS

Subotic, Jelena. 2023. “Holocaust and Global politics of Memory,” in Handbook on the Politics of Memory, edited by Maria Malksoo. Cheltenham, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Subotic, Jelena, 2023. “The International Relations of Holocaust Memory,” in Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust, edited by Jeffrey S. Kopstein, Jelena Subotic and Susan Welch. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Subotic, Jelena, 2023. “Historical Memory and Antisemitism in Postcommunist East Central Europe,” in After Totalitarianism: Jews and Post-Communist Europe. Studies in Contemporary Jewry: 33, edited by Eli Lederhendler. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Subotic, Jelena, 2023. “Regional Political Implications of Bosnian Genocide Denial,” in Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Bedross Der Matossian. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Subotic, Jelena, 2023. “The International Entrepreneurs of Transitional Justice,” in Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice, edited by Jens Meierhenrich, Alexander Laban Hinton and Lawrence Douglas. New York: Oxford University Press.

Pickering, Paula M. and Jelena Subotic, 2021. “Yugoslavia and Its Successor States,” in Central and East European Politics: Changes and Challenges, edited by Zsuzsa Csergo, Diana S. Eglitis and Paula M. Pickering. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Subotic, Jelena and Brent J. Steele, 2021. “History and Memory: Narratives, Micropolitics and Crises,” in Routledge Handbook of Historical International Relations, edited by Julia Costa-Lopez, Benjamin de Carvalho and Halvard Leira. London: Routledge.

McCoy, Jennifer, Jelena Subotic and Ryan Carlin, 2021. “Transforming transitional justice from below: Colombia’s pioneering peace proposal,” in
The Colombian Peace Process: A Multidisciplinary Assessment, edited by Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora, Andres Molina-Ochoa and Nancy Doubleday. London: Routledge.

Subotic, Jelena and Filip Ejdus, 2021. “Constructing a Truth Regime: 1999 NATO Intervention in Serbian Political Memory,” in Nationalization and Politicization of History in Former Yugoslavia, edited by Gorana Ognjenovic and Jasna Jozelic. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Subotic, Jelena. 2020. “There once was a country: Political reconciliation in the historical idea of Yugoslavia,” in Reconciliation after War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice, edited by Rachel Kerr, Henry Redwood, and James Gow. London: Routledge.

Subotic, Jelena and Ayse Zarakol 2020. “Hierarchies, Emotions and Memory in International Relations,” in The Power of Emotions in World Politics,
edited by Simon Koschut. London: Routledge.

Subotic, Jelena. 2019. “The Church, the Nation, and the State: The Serbian Orthodox Church After Communism,” in Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet. Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Carlin, Ryan, Jennifer McCoy and Jelena Subotic. 2019. “Leading the Public to Peace: Trust in Elites, the Legitimacy of Negotiated Peace, and Support for Transitional Justice,” in After War Ends, edited by James Meernik, Jacqueline DeMerritt, and Mauricio Uribe-Lopez. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Subotic, Jelena. 2019. “Narrative Analysis as a Tactical Bridge.” In Tactical Constructivism: Expressing Method in International Relations, edited by Brent J. Steele, Harry Gould and Oliver Kessler. London: Routledge.

Subotic, Jelena. 2017. “Building democracy in Serbia: One step forward, three steps back.” In Building Democracy in the Yugoslav Successor States: Accomplishments, Setbacks, Challenges since 1990, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Christine M. Hassenstab, and Ola Listhaug. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Subotic, Jelena. 2016. “For the love of homeland: Croat ethnic party politics in Bosnia-Herzegovina.” In Ethnic Minorities and Politics in Post-socialist Southeastern Europe, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Marko Valenta. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Subotic, Jelena. 2015. “The Mythologizing of Communist Violence.” In Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from 25 Years of Experience, edited by Lavinia Stan and Nadia Nedelsky. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Subotic, Jelena and Henry F. Carey. 2014. “The European Union, the ICTY, and the Challenge of Europeanization in Serbia.” In European Institutions, Democratization, and Human Rights Protection in the European Periphery, edited by Henry F. Carey. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Ejdus, Filip and Jelena Subotic. 2014. “Kosovo as Serbia’s Sacred Space: Governmentality, Pastoral Power and Sacralization of Territories.” In Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism: The Case of Former Yugoslavia and Its Successor States, edited by Gorana Ognjenovic and Jasna Jozelic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Subotic, Jelena. 2014. “Complexity of Accountability for Mass Atrocity.” In Justice, Conflict and Wellbeing: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Brian H. Bornstein & Richard L. Wiener. New York: Springer.

Subotic, Jelena. 2013. “Bargaining Justice: A Theory of Transitional Justice Compliance.” In Theories of Transitional Justice, edited by Christian Braun, Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Teresa Koloma-Beck and Friederike Mieth. London: Routledge.

Subotic, Jelena. 2013. “Perspectives for Transitional Justice and Reconciliation.” In Regional Co-operation and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of the ICTY Verdicts: Continuation or Stalemate? Edited by Ernst M. Felberbauer and Predrag Jurekovic. Vienna: National Defence Academy.

Subotic, Jelena. 2005. “Politics in the Raw.” In The Art of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule, edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia Milton and Leigh Payne. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Subotic, Jelena. 2005. “Laughing at Power.” In The Art of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule, edited by Ksenija Bilbija, Jo Ellen Fair, Cynthia Milton and
Leigh Payne. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

Peter Loizos, Gordon Adam and Jelena Subotic. “Broadcasting For Restraint:Crisis Reduction through UN-Supported Media Initiatives.” In Ethnic Conflict and International Security, edited by Anthony McDermott, special volume of the series “Peacekeeping and Multinational Operations.”  Oslo: Norwegian Institute of Public Affairs, 1994.  [Originally published as London School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 11, 1994].