Co-edited with by Oya Dursun-Ozkanca, this special issue was published by Civil Wars. It offers macro-framework for...
Ethnic Conflict
Twenty Years On: The Continuing Relevance of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
Given the persistence of minority-majority tensions and conflict across the OSCE area and beyond, the institution of the High Commissioner on National Minorities remains as relevant today as twenty years ago, and I see three specific areas in which the HCNM has a future role to play: monitoring, preventive quiet diplomacy, and policy transfer.
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.
Consociationalism, Power Sharing, and Politics at the Center
Published in The International Studies Encyclopedia in 2010, this chapter outlines the main features of centripetalism, power sharing, and power dividing and of their prescriptions for divided societies. I compare the three schools to one another and showing their...
Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible, after almost four decades, to achieve a lasting settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland, while that in Kashmir...
Minority Rights in the Western Balkans
Commissioned by the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the the European Parliament, was co-authored with Pieter van Houten, Ana-Maria Anghelea, and Ivana Djuric. It provides a detailed overview of the situation regarding minorities in...
Power Sharing and the Vertical Layering of Authority: A Review of Current Practices
Published in Settling Self-determination Disputes: Complex Power Sharing in Theory and Practice (edited by Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger, Brill, 2008), this chapter analyses state construction in complex power-sharing systems from the perspective of how authority is...
Conflict Resolution between Power Sharing, Power Dividing, or Beyond?
For more than 30 years a debate has engulfed the theory and practice of ethnic conflict resolution between advocates of consociationalism and their opponents. For much of this time, the debate has primarily been an internal one within the broader school of power...
Paradiplomacy: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges
Published in The SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, vol. 10 (Spring 2007), the overall argument of this article is that rather than seeing paradiplomacy as a threat, it should be embraced as a necessity and opportunity in the process of managing and ultimately...