Maja Savevska

Dr. Maja Savevska is Assistant Professor in International Political Economy at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nazarbayev University. She joined the Political Science and International Relations Department in Fall 2016. She completed Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Globalisation, Europe and Multilateralism at University of Warwick and Université Libre de Bruxelles. Her PhD mobility program was fully funded by the European Commission. Her previous appointments include a residential fellowship at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School following her successful completion of her PhD.

Broadly defined, Dr. Savevska’s research interests lie at the intersection of International Political Economy (IPE) and European Union (EU) Studies. Her doctoral thesis consisted of developing a Polanyian approach aimed at investigating the emergence of a new socio-environmental paradigm within the EU. Dr. Savevska current work is two-fold: a) formulating a post-Polanyian perspective that abandons the terminological fight over qualifying the EU as embedded or disembedded and instead it exploits the analytical potential of Polanyi’s concepts of improvement and habitation, b) examining the effects of the European Semester, the new macroeconomic surveillance mechanism, on social Europe.

Research Interest

• International Political Economy (IPE), European Union (EU) Studies

Selected Publications:

• Savevska, Maja (2020) Centralization of Rule-Making versus Embeddedness in the Eurozone, Journal of Contemporary European Studies
• Savevska, Maja (2019) The Fictitious Commodification of Money and the Euro Experiment, Culture, Practice & Europeanization, 4 (1): 29-42.
• Savevska, Maja (2017) Book Review of The End of the Eurocrats’ Dream: Adjusting to European Diversity, edited by Damian Chalmers, Markus Jachtenfuchs and Christian Joerges, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 15(1): 352-353.
• Savevska, Maja (2015) Book Review of Globalisation, Multilateralism, Europe, edited by Mario Telò, European Foreign Affairs Review, 20(4): 609-611.
• Savevska, Maja (2014) Polanyian Reading of the Socio-Economic Transformation of the European Union, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 22(4): 395-410.
• Savevska, Maja (2014) Corporate Social Responsibility: A Promising Social Innovation or a Neoliberal Strategy in Disguise?, Romanian Journal of European Affairs, 14(2): 63-80.
• Savevska, Maja (2012) The Progressive Possibilities Immanent in the Regime of Corporate Social Responsibility, In Research on Ethics and Social Responsibility, edited by Eduardo Simòes and José Neves. Lisbon: Business Research Unit, ISCTE – IUL, pp. 133-147.
• Savevska, Maja (2011) Symposium Notes on Ethics and Social Responsibility, 14th and 15th of April, 2011: ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 1(2): 157-159.
• Savevska, Maja (2011) The Contours of the European Civil Society. Euroacademia Papers, Vienna, December.