Co-edited with Karl Cordell and featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the Routledge Handbook of...
Publications
The relationships between states and non-state peoples: a comparative view of the Kurds in Iraq
Published in The Kurdish Policy Imperative (ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield, Chatham House/Brookings...
The Reactive Crisis Management of the EU in the Western Balkans
Co-authored with Annemarie Peen Rodt and published in International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management...
Content and Context: Sunningdale and Belfast Compared
Published as a contribution to Aspects of the Belfast Agreement (ed. by Rick Wilford, Oxford University Press, 2001), this chapter takes as its starting point the observation that both the 1973 Sunningdale and 1998 Belfast agreements are, in essence, consociational...
Coincidence or Commonality of Interests? German and American Views on NATO Enlargement
Initially, Germany and the United States were the strongest advocates of NATO enlargement. They were the first two alliance partners to change their stance from firmly ruling out the admission of former member states of the Warsaw Pact Organization to supporting...
German Minorities in Europe
The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented...
Ethno-territorial Cross-border Conflict in Western Europe
Minorities in Western Europe have been subjected to discrimination and forced assimilation, and they have resisted such repressive state policies in a variety of ways. The ethnic conflicts that have developed in the past were a form of group conflict wherein at least...