The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. This is reflected in the frequent inclusion of subnational governance arrangements in political settlements negotiated in war-to-peace transitions. In this book, my...
After decades of scholarship, there is still little agreement about the usefulness of territorial self-governance in managing territory-centred conflicts. In this freely accessible article in Territory, Politics, Governance, argue that the effectiveness of territorial...
The study of ethnic conflict saw its heyday in the aftermath of the Cold War with a proliferation of theories about its causes and management. But its origins as a subject of academic inquiry not only predate the end of the Cold War but also its inception, with some...
In this article, published in Post-Soviet Affairs in 2018, my colleague Tatyana Malyarenko and I argue that the crisis in Ukraine since late 2013 has seen four successive internationally mediated agreements that have been at best partially implemented. Drawing on...
Co-authored with Karl Cordell, this Introduction to a Special Issue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a broad contextualisation to the individual contributions in this special issue. The special issue was co-edited by Karl Cordell, Brendan O’Leary, and...
Co-edited with Karl Cordell and Brendan O’Leary, this special issue on the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published by Ethnopolitics in 2016. Brendan O’Leary’s lead piece begins from the premise that the status quo is neither morally...
