Analysing the current context of the Transnistrian conflict and drawing on an analysis of existing proposals for conflict settlement, this study offers a number of suggestions how a sustainable settlement could be achieved.
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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 European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
Co-edited with Richard Whitman, this book offers an up-to-date and accessible analysis of the theories, processes and...
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...
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...
A Foreign Policy Analysis of the “German Question”: Ostpolitik Revisited
Co-authored with Karl Cordell and subsequently published in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article takes a constructivist approach to foreign policy analysis. Using German policy vis-à-vis Poland and Czechoslovakia/the Czech Republic as an example, we examine...
Germany as a Kin-state: The Development and Implementation of a Norm-consistent External Minority Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe
Published in Nationalities Papers in 2007 and co-authored with Karl Cordell, this article demonstrates the continuity of German Ostpolitik since the late 1960s and explains it in terms of the development of, and adherence to, a set of norms to which the overwhelming...
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...
Ethnic Germans in Poland and the Czech Republic: A Comparative Evaluation
Co-authored with Karl Cordell and subsequently published in Nationalities Papers in 2005, this article analyses the nature of the German minorities in the Czech Republic and Poland. In order to achieve this goal, the relationship between Czechoslovakia/the Czech...