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...
The European Union and the Conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh Territory
This report, prepared for the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (the so-called Monitoring Committee) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, examines the role of the European Union in...
Overcoming Political Deadlock in Gagauzia
This report, prepared for the then-EU Special Representative for Moldova, offers some observations on how the political deadlock in Gagauzia following elections to the entity's assembly could be overcome. The report is part of my long-term project on Conflict...
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...