Co-edited with Richard Whitman, this book offers an up-to-date and accessible analysis of the theories, processes and...
Ethnic Conflict
Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering a wide range...
The Merits and Perils of Territorial Accommodation
Published in Political Studies Review in 2011, this review essay discusses three volumes on territorial accommodation...
Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective
Illuminating the broad similarities between ethnic conflicts around the world, this book engages the two fundamental questions underlying them all: why do people keep killing each other and what can we do about it?
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....
Electoral Systems Design in Power-sharing Regimes
Published in Power Sharing: New Challenges for Divided Societies (ed. by Ian O'Flynn and David Russell, Pluto Press, 2006), this chapter focuses on electoral systems design as a key mechanism in the broader institutional design approach to the resolution of conflict...
Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts
Ethnic conflicts around the world devastate the lives of millions of people, destabilise national governments and undermine the prospects of sustainable development and successful transitions to democracy in entire regions. The threats to global peace and stability...
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...