Published in Political Studies Review in 2011, this review essay discusses three volumes on territorial accommodation...
Publications
The Emerging Practice of Complex Power Sharing
Examining three main schools of conflict resolution -- centripetalism, consociational power sharing and power dividing...
The Regional Dimensions of State Failure
Published in the Review of International Studies in 2011, this article starts by considering the academic and policy...
Minority Languages in Europe
Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European integration. But what legislative and policy...
The German Question since 1919: An Analysis with Key Documents
This book examines the domestic and international dynamics of the German question, one of the 20th century's most interesting and complex phenomena since its 1919 inception. The German question is best described as the incompatibility of the territory of any German...
The Limits of Non-military International Intervention: A Case Study of Kosovo
Published in Understanding the War in Kosovo (ed. by Florian Bieber and Zhidas Daskalovski, 2003), this chapter argues that the difficulties the international community was experiencing in formulating and implementing a consistent and effective policy approach towards...
Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe: Accommodation through De-ethnicisiation?
Published in JEMIE – Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe in 2002, this article engages with Will Kymlicka's ideas of exporting liberal pluralism and explores the contemporary nature of ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe. It examines the...
The German Question Continued? Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic since 1990
Published in German Politics in 2002, this article argues that, although it has often been reduced to the issue of the reunification of the two German states, the so-called German question continued to be a multi-dimensional phenomenon after 1945. This is most obvious...
Coming Home to Germany?
Ethnic cleansing has been one of the phenomena that have shaped the 20th century from its first decade to its last, and Europe continues to have to deal with the consequences of forced population transfers. One of the most significant events of this kind has been the...