Prof. Maria Koinova is Professor in International Relations at the University of Warwick and Senior Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Germany. She is the author of “Diaspora Entrepreneurs and Contested States” (Oxford University Press, 2021) and "Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013). She is currently leading a work package in the EU Jean Monnet Network "Between the EU and Russia." Her numerous articles and special issues on ethnic conflicts, diaspora politics and international migration have been published in the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Review of International Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Political Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, among others.