Published in 2011, this article argues that the management of ethno-national conflict remains an important issue on...
Publications
Guarantee Options for a Settlement of the Conflict over Transnistria
Any meaningful consideration of guarantee options requires some assumptions about the nature of the underlying...
Governing (in) Kirkuk
Focusing on the dynamics of the process of settling the status of Kirkuk, principally within the framework of the...
Peace at Last?
Spanning more than thirty years, and costing over 3000 lives, the conflict in and over Northern Ireland has been one of the most protracted ethnic conflicts in Western Europe. After several failed attempts to resolve the fundamental differences over national belonging...
Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement
Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, I contend that Western European states have a positive track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which...
The Peace Process in Northern Ireland since 1998: Success or Failure of Post-agreement Reconstruction?
Published in Civil Wars in 2002, this article argues that the key to the long-term stability of peace settlements is the ability of political leaders to change the social organisation and execution of power from force/violence-centred structures to those of consensual...
Conflict Management in Northern Ireland
Published in the UNESCO Diversities (vol. 4, no. 1, 2002) and subsequently re-printed in Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies (ed. by Matthias Koenig and Paul de Guchteneire, Routledge, 2007), this essay analyses the different policies employed by the...
From Irredentism to Constructive Reconciliation: Ethnic German Minorities and Germany’s Relationship with Poland and the Czech Republic since 1990
Subsequently published in Language, Ethnicity and the State (ed. by Camille O'Reilly, Palgrave, 2001), this chapter traces the origins of the problems facing Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic today and analyses their impact on, and relevance for, the current and...
Bilateral Ethnopolitics after the Cold War
Using the relationship between Hungary and Slovakia as a case study, this article discusses the problems associated with ‘bilateral’ ethnopolitics in the context of cross‐border minority situations. It starts by outlining a theoretical framework for such an analysis,...