Co-edited with by Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, this special issue was published by Civil Wars. It offers macro-framework for...
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Assessing Regional and International Organizations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context
This special issue of Civil Wars on “Assessing Regional and International Organisations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context” includes a range of case studies on the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the African Union, and the Organisation of American States. Each case study features a presentation and analysis of empirical data in two dimensions: the organization’s general capabilities to carry out intervention in civil wars and, specific to one particular intervention, the conflict context in which it happened.
The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
Co-edited with Richard Whitman, this book offers an up-to-date and accessible analysis of the theories, processes and...
Internationalised State-building after Violent Conflict
Co-edited with Marc Weller, this special issue was published in Ethnopolitics to mark the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords. Together with our contributors, we examine three levels of analysis—local, regional, international—and the relationships between them to...
The Ethnopolitics of Elections
Co-edited with Florian Bieber, this special issue was published by Ethnopolitics in 2005. It features a conceptual discussions and case studies that focus on the evolution of electoral systems in seven countries around the world, from Belgium to Trinidad and Tobago....
Electoral Systems Design in Power-sharing Regimes
Published in Power Sharing: New Challenges for Divided Societies (ed. by Ian O'Flynn and David Russell, Pluto Press, 2006), this chapter focuses on electoral systems design as a key mechanism in the broader institutional design approach to the resolution of conflict...
Between Stability and Collapse: Internal and External Dynamics of Post-agreement Institution-building in Northern Ireland
Published as a contribution to From Powersharing to Democracy: Post-conflict Institutions in Ethnically Divided Societies (ed. by Sid Noel, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005), this chapter argues that, while far from perfect, power sharing is the only viable...
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...
Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution
Conflicts over the rights of self-defined population groups to determine their own destiny within the boundaries of existing states are among the most violent forms of inter-communal conflict. Many experts agree that autonomy regimes are a useful framework within...