This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Ethnic Conflict
Territorial self-governance and proportional representation: reducing the risk of territory-centred intrastate violence
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Critical Concepts in Political Science: Ethnic Conflict
The study of ethnic conflict saw its heyday in the aftermath of the Cold War with a proliferation of theories about...
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 in Ukraine since late 2013 has seen four successive internationally mediated agreements that have been at best partially implemented. Drawing on...
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Reflections on the Politics of Stalemate
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...
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...
Sudan: ‘Successful’ Constitutional Reform Spurs Localized Violence
Institutions are important in mitigating the extent to which shocks produce violent consequences, but their effectiveness is conditioned by the behavior of local and international leaders. Ostensibly perfect institutions may fail due to poor stewardship, while even imperfect ones can succeed at preventing violent escalation if local and international political leaders have sufficient political will.
Twenty Years On and Twenty Years Ahead
While resistance to HCNM involvement is likely to increase in an era in which sovereignty concerns all too often trump concerns over human and minority rights, this does not make the institution of the HCNM itself irrelevant — on the contrary. I argue in this article that there are three areas in which the HCNM has a future role to play: monitoring, preventive quiet diplomacy, and policy transfer.
Self-determination after Kosovo
Co–edited with Annemarie Peen Rodt, this special issue was published by Europe-Asia Studies. It presents the results of several years of collaborative work among the contributing authors who first discussed individual papers at a workshop at the International...