Emilija Tudzarovska is Assistant Professor in Modern European Politics at the Department of European Studies, Institute of International Studies, Charles University. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at Leiden University under the Erasmus+ programme. She serves as Co-Convenor of the UACES Research Network Rethinking Europe’s East–West Divide, which brings together scholars examining political, institutional, and normative dynamics shaping contemporary Europe.
Her research focuses on European modern politics, democratic legitimacy in the European Union, and the political, economic and societal transformations of Western and Eastern Europe. She previously held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the Czech Academy of Sciences, where her project examined the evolving foundations of EU democratic legitimacy. She remains affiliated with the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences as an external researcher.
Prior to her academic career, Dr Tudzarovska held senior research and policy positions in international organisations and diplomatic institutions. She served as Head of Research in International Relations at the University of New York in Prague (UNYP). Between 2007 and 2017, she led foreign policy, governance, and security programmes 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, European Review of International Studies, and volumes published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. Her forthcoming co-edited volume, Handbook of Comparative Politics of Central and Eastern Europe (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026), provides a comprehensive examination of political and economic transformations across the region.
Dr Tudzarovska regularly contributes expert commentary to international policy and media platforms, including Social Europe, Politics and Rights Review, and International Politics and Society, and has been cited in the Financial Times.
