Examining three main schools of conflict resolution -- centripetalism, consociational power sharing and power dividing...
Book Chapters
The relationships between states and non-state peoples: a comparative view of the Kurds in Iraq
Published in The Kurdish Policy Imperative (ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield, Chatham House/Brookings...
The Reactive Crisis Management of the EU in the Western Balkans
Co-authored with Annemarie Peen Rodt and published in International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management...
Idiosyncrasy or Foresight: Pre-1990 Cases of Territorial Autonomy in Europe
Published in Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (ed. by Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), this chapter argues that while territorial autonomy is not automatically linked to forms of democratic governance,...
Consociationalism, Power Sharing, and Politics at the Center
Published in The International Studies Encyclopedia in 2010, this chapter outlines the main features of centripetalism, power sharing, and power dividing and of their prescriptions for divided societies. I compare the three schools to one another and showing their...
Complex Power Sharing as Conflict Resolution: South Tyrol in Comparative Perspective
Published in Tolerance through Law: Self-governance and Group Rights in South Tyrol (edited by Jens Woelk, Francesco Palermo, and Joseph Marko, Brill, 2008), this chapter assesses the utility of the notion of complex power sharing as an analytical category to examine...
Power Sharing and the Vertical Layering of Authority: A Review of Current Practices
Published in Settling Self-determination Disputes: Complex Power Sharing in Theory and Practice (edited by Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger, Brill, 2008), this chapter analyses state construction in complex power-sharing systems from the perspective of how authority is...
From the Margins to the Centre: The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany
Co-authored with Karoline von Oppen and published in Germans as Victims: Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany (ed. by Bill Niven, Palgrave, 2006), this chapter examines how ethnic German refugees and expellees and their descendants, and the organisations...
The Impact of Post-communist Regime Change and European Integration on Ethnic Minorities: The “Special” Case of Ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe
Subsequently published in European Integration and the Nationalities Question (ed. by John McGarry and Michael Keating, Routledge, 2006), this paper begins by outlining the analytical framework that will guide the subsequent examination of its empirical material....