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.
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Self-determination after Kosovo
Co–edited with Annemarie Peen Rodt, this special issue was published by Europe-Asia Studies. It presents the results...
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.
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...
Representation of Autonomous Entities at the Level of the Central Government
This report was prepared for a meeting, organised by the European Centre for Minority Issues, with Moldovan and Gagauz officials, aimed at assisting them in resolving their differences over the interpretation of the 1995 Law on the Special Status of Gagauzia. It...
The Distribution of Competences between Centre and Autonomy
This report was prepared for a meeting, organised by the European Centre for Minority Issues, with Moldovan and Gagauz officials, aimed at assisting them in resolving their differences over the interpretation of the 1995 Law on the Special Status of Gagauzia. It...
Mechanisms to Settle Constitutional Disputes
Latest Publications Mission (Im)Possible? UN Military Peacekeeping Operations in Civil Wars The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC) Enhancing the Robustness of Causal Claims Based on Case Study Research on Conflict Zones: Observations from...
A Foreign Policy Analysis of the “German Question”: Ostpolitik Revisited
Co-authored with Karl Cordell and subsequently published in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article takes a constructivist approach to foreign policy analysis. Using German policy vis-à-vis Poland and Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic as an example, we examine...
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...