Economic connectivity has been at the heart of the OSCE’s Second Dimension for more than four decades. The Second...
Publications
The logic of competitive influence-seeking: Russia, Ukraine, and the conflict in Donbas
In this article, published in Post-Soviet Affairs in 2018, my colleague Tatyana Malyarenko and I argue that the crisis...
Institutional Outcomes of Territorial Contestation: Lessons from Post-Communist Europe, 1989–2012
Co-authored with Zsuzsa Csergő and Philippe Roseberry and published in Publius, this article starts with the...
Intervening in Civil Wars: Success and Failure of International and Regional Organisations in Managing Violent Conflict
Co-edited with by Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, this special issue was published by Civil Wars. It offers macro-framework for the study of regional and international regulation of intra-state conflict and is informed by two fundamental premises: (1) conflicts, while complex...
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 practice of the European Union's role in managing conflict in Europe, Asia and Africa and examines both institutional and policy aspects of EU...
A resolvable frozen conflict? Designing a settlement for Transnistria
This article analyses a range of existing proposals that reflect the Moldovan, Russian/Transnistrian, and Mediators’ positions to date and proposes a framework in which these proposals, and the relative consensus they exhibit, can be accommodated.
Post-conflict State Building: The Debate on Institutional Choice
This article finds substantial conceptual and empirical evidence that consociational institutions hold significant promise for building democratic states after conflict in divided societies.
Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering a wide range of perspectives from leading experts in the field, this edited volume examines the philosophies underpinning constitutional design, the actors and...