Is the EU’s New European Neighbourhood Policy fit to address security challenges in the Southern Neighbourhood?
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The Reactive Crisis Management of the EU in the Western Balkans
Co-authored with Annemarie Peen Rodt and published in International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management...
Can the EU do without its Special Representatives?
As so often with international organisations, the problem might be less the availability of resources and expertise, but the political will to deploy them.
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...
The end of Europe as we know it?
The referenda in France on Sunday and in the Netherlands on Wednesday have thrown the process of ratification of the European Union's constitutional treaty into disarray, and probably damaged it beyond repair. Stefan Wolff, Professor of Political Science at the...
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...
Germany’s Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited
Co-authored with Karl Cordell, this book represents a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Using social constructivism as its main theoretical perspective, this...
Can Forced Population Transfers Resolve Self-determination Conflicts?
In how far can ethnic cleansing and its consequences contribute to the internal stability and external security of the states affected by such demographic changes? Following a conceptual clarification of forced population transfers, a number of cases of forced...
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...