Her primary research interest is post-conflict reconstruction, with a focus on transitional justice, civil society and democratisation. She is currently researching a regional approach to transitional justice. Dr Kostovicova is the author of Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space (Routledge 2005) and co-editor of Transnationalism in the Balkans (Routledge 2008), Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age (Ashgate 2009), Bottom-up Politics: An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan 2011), and Civil Society and Transitions in the Western Balkans (Palgrave Macmillan 2013).