Trade as a confidence-building measure in protracted conflicts: the cases of Georgia and Moldova compared
Published in 2019 in Eurasian Geography and Economics, my colleague Nino Kemoklidze and I investigate the extent to which economic confidence-building measures (CBMs) contribute to conflict settlement in this article. Academic and policy literature on the post-Soviet...National and International Instruments of Minority Protection in Europe
National and international instruments of minority protection in Europe form a multi-layered framework that establishes minority protection not as a choice but as both a legal obligation and a pragmatic necessity. In this report, commissioned by the Institute for...Theorising the European Union as an International Security Provider: Actors, Processes, Outcomes and Impact
Co-edited with Annemarie Peen Rodt and Richard G. Whitman, this special issue was published by Global Society in 2015. It presents the fruits of an ongoing collaborative research agenda, which, over several years and with support from the British Academy, the...The EU’s Responses to Conflicts in its Wider Neighbourhood: Human or European Security?
Systematically examining the EU’s responses to conflicts in its wider neighbourhood, this article argues that the Union’s response is most in line with a human security approach in relation to those conflicts where it perceives to have the greatest interests at stake.