While resistance to HCNM involvement is likely to increase in an era in which sovereignty concerns all too often trump concerns over human and minority rights, this does not make the institution of the HCNM itself irrelevant — on the contrary. I argue in this article that there are three areas in which the HCNM has a future role to play: monitoring, preventive quiet diplomacy, and policy transfer.
Journal Articles
Self-Determination After Kosovo
Using Kosovo as an illustrative case study, this article discusses the meaning of self-determination in its historical and contemporary contexts and examines the different options available for the accommodation of contested self-determination claims.
Conflict Management in Divided Societies: The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance
This article establishes and tests a framework to explain the emergence of forms of territorial self-governance, examines the conditions under which they are combined with other conflict management strategies, such as power sharing, and reflects on their track record of providing stability in divided societies, finding it more promising than its critics allow.
Germany as a Kin-state: The Development and Implementation of a Norm-consistent External Minority Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe
Published in Nationalities Papers in 2007 and co-authored with Karl Cordell, this article demonstrates the continuity of German Ostpolitik since the late 1960s and explains it in terms of the development of, and adherence to, a set of norms to which the overwhelming...
Conflict Resolution between Power Sharing, Power Dividing, or Beyond?
For more than 30 years a debate has engulfed the theory and practice of ethnic conflict resolution between advocates of consociationalism and their opponents. For much of this time, the debate has primarily been an internal one within the broader school of power...
Paradiplomacy: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges
Published in The SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, vol. 10 (Spring 2007), the overall argument of this article is that rather than seeing paradiplomacy as a threat, it should be embraced as a necessity and opportunity in the process of managing and ultimately...
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ten Years after Dayton: Lessons for Internationalized State Building
Co-authored with Marc Weller, this introduction to a special issue of Ethnopolitics on the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords discusses three specific dimensions of the internationalized state building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past 10 years....
Ethnic Germans in Poland and the Czech Republic: A Comparative Evaluation
Co-authored with Karl Cordell and subsequently published in Nationalities Papers in 2005, this article analyses the nature of the German minorities in the Czech Republic and Poland. In order to achieve this goal, the relationship between Czechoslovakia/the Czech...
The Institutional Structure of Regional Consociations
Published in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, this article examines regional consociations as institutional designs that combine two elements of traditional conflict resolution approaches: territorial autonomy and consociational power-sharing. From a conflict...