Co-authored with Karl Cordell and subsequently published in Foreign Policy Analysis, this article takes a...
The ‘German Question’
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...
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...
The Impact of Post-communist Regime Change and European Integration on Ethnic Minorities: The “Special” Case of Ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe
Subsequently published in European Integration and the Nationalities Question (ed. by John McGarry and Michael Keating, Routledge, 2006), this paper begins by outlining the analytical framework that will guide the subsequent examination of its empirical material....
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...
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...
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...