Systematically examining the EU’s responses to conflicts in its wider neighbourhood, this article argues that the Union’s response is most in line with a human security approach in relation to those conflicts where it perceives to have the greatest interests at stake.
Publications
The threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)
In a joint submission to the UK Parliament’s Defence Select Committee, my colleagues Paul Schulte, Chris Wyatt and I address counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policy, including the ideological threat; the role of air power; and the need to consider ongoing operations and policy in the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the associated National Security Strategy.
Yemen Constitutional Drafting: Special Measures and Executive Formation
This memorandum provides an overview of options for the formation of the executive branch of the government, taking account of provisions in three relevant outcome documents of the National Dialogue Conference.
The European Union and the Conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Territory
This report, prepared for the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (the so-called Monitoring Committee) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, examines the role of the European Union in...
Overcoming Political Deadlock in Gagauzia
This report, prepared for the then-EU Special Representative for Moldova, offers some observations on how the political deadlock in Gagauzia following elections to the entity's assembly could be overcome. The report is part of my long-term project on Conflict...
Minority Rights in the Western Balkans
Commissioned by the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the the European Parliament, was co-authored with Pieter van Houten, Ana-Maria Anghelea, and Ivana Djuric. It provides a detailed overview of the situation regarding minorities in...
Structure and Agency in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Settlement Process
This report (in German) was prepared for a meeting with representatives of the Nagorno-Karabakh territory at the European Academy in Berlin. It analyses the dynamic relationship between and among the main structures and actors in the conflict and the various attempts...
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 increasingly involved in the management of ethnopolitical conflicts and have been active in attempts to prevent and/or resolve them. Co-edited with Marc...
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...