In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic...
Edited Volumes
Institutions for the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe
Once considered an exclusively internal affair, international organisations have, over the last few decades, become...
Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of...
Coming Home to Germany?
Ethnic cleansing has been one of the phenomena that have shaped the 20th century from its first decade to its last, and Europe continues to have to deal with the consequences of forced population transfers. One of the most significant events of this kind has been the...
Peace at Last?
Spanning more than thirty years, and costing over 3000 lives, the conflict in and over Northern Ireland has been one of the most protracted ethnic conflicts in Western Europe. After several failed attempts to resolve the fundamental differences over national belonging...
German Minorities in Europe
The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented...