Using Kosovo as an illustrative case study, this article discusses the meaning of self-determination in its historical and contemporary contexts and examines the different options available for the accommodation of contested self-determination claims.
Balkans
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 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...
Institutions for the Management of Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe
Once considered an exclusively internal affair, international organisations have, over the last few decades, become increasingly involved in the management of ethnopolitical conflicts and have been active in attempts to prevent and/or resolve them. Co-edited with Marc...
From the Margins to the Centre: The Discourse on Expellees and Victimhood in Germany
Co-authored with Karoline von Oppen and published in Germans as Victims: Remembering the Past in Contemporary Germany (ed. by Bill Niven, Palgrave, 2006), this chapter examines how ethnic German refugees and expellees and their descendants, and the organisations...
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ten Years after Dayton: Lessons for Internationalized State Building
Co-authored with Marc Weller, this introduction to a special issue of Ethnopolitics on the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords discusses three specific dimensions of the internationalized state building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past 10 years....
Internationalised State-building after Violent Conflict
Co-edited with Marc Weller, this special issue was published in Ethnopolitics to mark the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords. Together with our contributors, we examine three levels of analysis—local, regional, international—and the relationships between them to...
The Ethnopolitics of Elections
Co-edited with Florian Bieber, this special issue was published by Ethnopolitics in 2005. It features a conceptual discussions and case studies that focus on the evolution of electoral systems in seven countries around the world, from Belgium to Trinidad and Tobago....
The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe
This volume, published in 2004, presents a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of ethnopolitics in Europe, detailing the dynamics of the political mobilisation of ethnic groups across the continent and its consequences for domestic and international politics. Written...