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The EU as a Conflict Manager? The Case of Georgia and Its Implications
Co-authored with Richard G. Whitman and subsequently published in International Affairs, this article offers an...
Conflict Resolution in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood
This paper was commissioned by the European Policy Centre and co-authored with Amanda Akcakoca, Thomas Vanhauwaert,...
The German Question since 1919: An Analysis with Key Documents
This book examines the domestic and international dynamics of the German question, one of the 20th century's most interesting and complex phenomena since its 1919 inception. The German question is best described as the incompatibility of the territory of any German...
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...
The German Question Continued? Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic since 1990
Published in German Politics in 2002, this article argues that, although it has often been reduced to the issue of the reunification of the two German states, the so-called German question continued to be a multi-dimensional phenomenon after 1945. This is most obvious...
From Irredentism to Constructive Reconciliation: Ethnic German Minorities and Germany’s Relationship with Poland and the Czech Republic since 1990
Subsequently published in Language, Ethnicity and the State (ed. by Camille O'Reilly, Palgrave, 2001), this chapter traces the origins of the problems facing Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic today and analyses their impact on, and relevance for, the current and...