Examining three main schools of conflict resolution -- centripetalism, consociational power sharing and power dividing...
Ethnic Conflict
An Anniversary Worth Commemorating
The 1991 Polish-German Treaty on Good Neighbourly Relations and Friendly Cooperation has been a remarkable success in resetting German-Polish relations and bringing them to an unprecedented level of constructive and mutually beneficial engagement across all levels of government, business and society.
The Regional Dimensions of State Failure
Published in the Review of International Studies in 2011, this article starts by considering the academic and policy...
Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe
Co-authored with Karl Cordell and published in Minority Languages in Europe: Framework, Status, Prospects (co-ed. with Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Palgrave, 2003/paperback 2010), this chapter examines the legislative and policy frameworks in three Central and Eastern...
Minority Languages in Europe
Minority languages are part of Europe's shared cultural heritage and there is a broad consensus that it is important to protect and encourage linguistic and cultural diversity during the process of continuing European integration. But what legislative and policy...
The Limits of Non-military International Intervention: A Case Study of Kosovo
Published in Understanding the War in Kosovo (ed. by Florian Bieber and Zhidas Daskalovski, 2003), this chapter argues that the difficulties the international community was experiencing in formulating and implementing a consistent and effective policy approach towards...
Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe: Accommodation through De-ethnicisiation?
Published in JEMIE – Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe in 2002, this article engages with Will Kymlicka's ideas of exporting liberal pluralism and explores the contemporary nature of ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe. It examines the...
Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement
Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, I contend that Western European states have a positive track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which...
Content and Context: Sunningdale and Belfast Compared
Published as a contribution to Aspects of the Belfast Agreement (ed. by Rick Wilford, Oxford University Press, 2001), this chapter takes as its starting point the observation that both the 1973 Sunningdale and 1998 Belfast agreements are, in essence, consociational...