Mehdi Sejdiu

Doctoral Candidate

Contact

Heidelberg Center for American Studies
Hauptstr. 120
69117 Heidelberg
Email: msejdiu@hca.uni-heidelberg.de

Portrait von Mehdi Sejdiu

Education

Mehdi Sejdiu studied political science and international relations at Istanbul Şehir University (BA) and University of Heidelberg (MA); afterwards, he worked as a political advisor to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Kosova between 2021 – 2023, mostly coordinating Kosova – EU affairs. 

Project Working Title

Domestic impacts of US and EU Authority in Kosova

Project Description

Mehdi Sejdiu looks at the role of US and EU authority in Kosova after its independence and the domestic impacts of this authority. Through this work, he wants to examine the transatlantic cooperation in Kosova and the self-assertion of the domestic factors through cooperation and confrontation to consolidate statehood despite geopolitical shifts.