He is Full Professor at University College, Dublin. He is also Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. He is an elected member of Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea (the European Academy). Previously he held research and teaching appointments at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb), the Centre for the Study of Nationalism, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Visiting Professor/Eric Remacle Chair in Conflict and Peace Studies). Recent books include: Why Humans Fight: The Social Dynamics of Close-Range Violence (Cambridge UP, 2022),
Malešević, S. (2024) Emotions on the battlefield: Towards a sociological analysis. Newsletter on the Results of Scholarly Work in Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.61439/UNYH4829
Uzelac, G., Carol, S., David, L., & Malešević, S. (2024) “My country first”: Vaccine nationalism in England? Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537113.2023.2285088
Malešević, S. (2024) The many faces of nationalism. Nationalities Papers. https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2022.114
Malešević, S., Uzelac, G., Carol, S., & David, L. (2024) Plotting against our nation: COVID-19, nationalisms, and conspiracy theories in five European countries. National Identities. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2023.2288970
Malešević, S. (2024) Book review: The enlightenment and violence. European Journal of Social Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310241231778
Malešević, S. (2023) The moral fog of war and historical sociology. European Journal of Social Theory. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684310231165218
Malešević, S. (2022) Crime, violence, and coercive power. Journal of Political Power. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2033097
Malešević, S. (2022) Disenchantment, rationalisation and collective self-sacralisation. Journal of Political Power. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379X.2022.2055281
Malthaner, S., & Malešević, S. (2022) Violence, legitimacy, and control: The dynamics of rebel rule. Partecipazione e Conflitto. https://doi.org/10.1285/i20356609v15i1p01
Bakke, E., Breuilly, J., Hutchinson, J., Kolář, P., Kriel, M., Leerssen, J., ... & Malešević, S. (2022) Symposium for Miroslav Hroch. Nations and Nationalism. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12851
Malešević, S. (2021) The act of killing: Understanding the emotional dynamics of violence on the battlefield. Critical Military Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2019.1673060
Malešević, S. (2021) The end of warfare? A sociological analysis of recent approaches to war studies. Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya. https://doi.org/10.31857/S013216250016091-3
Malešević, S. (2021) Warfare and group solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and beyond. Filozofija i Društvo. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2103389M
Malešević, S. (2021) ‘Small’ and ‘greater’ nations: Empires and nationalist movements in Ireland and the Balkans. Irish Political Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07907184.2021.1877895
Malešević, S. (2021) Forging the nation‐centric world: Imperial rule and the homogenisation of discontent in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918). Journal of Historical Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1002/johs.12350
Malešević, S. (2020) Is it easy to kill in war? Emotions and violence in the combat zones of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1991–1995). European Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003975620000132
Malešević, S. (2020) Nationalisms and the Orthodox worlds. Nations and Nationalism. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12539
Malešević, S. (2019) Grounding nationalism: Randall Collins and the sociology of nationhood. Thesis Eleven. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513619874456
Malešević, S., & Loyal, S. (2019) Introduction to special issue: The sociology of Randall Collins. Thesis Eleven. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513619874435
Malešević, S. (2019) The social dynamics of grounded-ness: Response to Fox, Riga and Ryan. Irish Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0791603519881275
Malešević, S. (2018) The rise and rise of grounded nationalisms. Ethnopolitics. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2018.1532636
Malešević, S. (2018) The structural origins of social cohesion: The dynamics of micro-solidarity in 1991–1995 wars of Yugoslav succession. Small Wars and Insurgencies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2018.1488410
Malešević, S., & Ó Dochartaigh, N. (2018) Why combatants fight: The Irish Republican Army and the Bosnian Serb Army compared. Theory and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-018-9315-9