Al-Qaeda may not have regained the global threat potential that it posed a decade or so ago – at least, not yet. But its local and regional efforts have made it, in many cases, a powerful and entrenched source of instability. If left unchecked, such local and regional power can grow into something altogether more terrible.
International Conflict Management
Ugandan intervention holds little hope for South Sudan conflict
Without a broader regional approach – and a consensual one at that – neither South Sudan nor the region as a whole are likely to see more stability in the future.
Peace and security in Africa: from summitry to solutions
The widespread lack of peace and security is not the only problems that Africa faces, but they are at the heart of them: development and good governance cannot thrive in situations of violence and instability. As such, the very theme of the summit–Peace and Security in Africa–is very aptly chosen. It is a reflection of the challenges for Africa, as well as of the concerns and self-interests of its international partners.
Power Sharing and the Vertical Layering of Authority: A Review of Current Practices
Published in Settling Self-determination Disputes: Complex Power Sharing in Theory and Practice (edited by Marc Weller and Barbara Metzger, Brill, 2008), this chapter analyses state construction in complex power-sharing systems from the perspective of how authority is...
Mechanisms to Settle Constitutional Disputes
Latest Publications Mission (Im)Possible? UN Military Peacekeeping Operations in Civil Wars The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC) Enhancing the Robustness of Causal Claims Based on Case Study Research on Conflict Zones: Observations from...
Paradiplomacy: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges
Published in The SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, vol. 10 (Spring 2007), the overall argument of this article is that rather than seeing paradiplomacy as a threat, it should be embraced as a necessity and opportunity in the process of managing and ultimately...
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ten Years after Dayton: Lessons for Internationalized State Building
Co-authored with Marc Weller, this introduction to a special issue of Ethnopolitics on the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords discusses three specific dimensions of the internationalized state building process in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the past 10 years....
Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective
Illuminating the broad similarities between ethnic conflicts around the world, this book engages the two fundamental questions underlying them all: why do people keep killing each other and what can we do about it?
Internationalised State-building after Violent Conflict
Co-edited with Marc Weller, this special issue was published in Ethnopolitics to mark the tenth anniversary of the Dayton Accords. Together with our contributors, we examine three levels of analysis—local, regional, international—and the relationships between them to...