Can the OSCE contribute to Ukraine’s recovery?
Journal Articles
An Impenetrable Knot of Blended Conflicts? The National Identity Constraints of European Integration in the Western Balkans
Hampered by serious problems within some countries of the region and in their relationship with the European Union, the European integration process in the Western Balkans has been uneven and protracted.
Confidence Building in the Shadow of War: Moldova, Transdniestria, and the Uncertain Future of the 5+2 Process
How can the OSCE build and maintain confidence between the parties in the Transdniestrian conflict?
Strengthening the OSCE through Enhanced EU-OSCE Cooperation
Can the OSCE be regenerated through enhanced cooperation with the EU, and if so, how?
Mission (Im)Possible? UN Military Peacekeeping Operations in Civil Wars
Under what conditions can UN military peacekeeping operations (PKOs) succeed in contexts of civil war?
The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC)
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Territorial self-governance and proportional representation: reducing the risk of territory-centred intrastate violence
The effectiveness of territorial self-governance as a tool of conflict management increases when combined with a PR electoral system for the national legislature.
Enhancing the Robustness of Causal Claims Based on Case Study Research on Conflict Zones
Focusing on process tracing and using the example of fieldwork in Donbas, I develop an argument in this article in Nationalities Papers on what theoretically grounded and empirically detailed methodological solutions can be considered to mitigate the challenges of...
Predators and Peace: Explaining the Failure of the Pakistani Conflict Settlement Process in 2013-4
In this article in Civil Wars, my colleagues Talat Farooq, Scott Lucas, and I ask whether US drone strikes caused the unravelling of the Pakistani conflict settlement process between the government and the TTP in 2013-14. This has been a much-debated, yet so far...
