It’s been six years since the start of the Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine, which led to the ousting of then-President Viktor Yanukovych. By the time his successor Petro Poroshenko was elected in May 2014, the domestic political scene in Ukraine and the geopolitical dynamics in the contested EU-Russia neighbourhood surrounding it had fundamentally altered.
Post-Soviet Space
Ukraine presidential election: young comedian leads polls, but country’s dangerous divisions are no joke
Ukraine’s presidential election campaign is a tragic indictment of the country’s current political state. Most candidates have adopted populist strategies, voters appear highly irrational in their preferences, trust in the political system and its leading representatives is extremely low, and the country remains deeply divided and perpetually stuck in a systemic social, political, and economic crisis partly of its own making.
The Dynamics of Emerging De-Facto States: Eastern Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Space
What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and...
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...
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....
The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe
This volume, published in 2004, presents a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of ethnopolitics in Europe, detailing the dynamics of the political mobilisation of ethnic groups across the continent and its consequences for domestic and international politics. Written...
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...
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...
Coming Home to Germany?
Ethnic cleansing has been one of the phenomena that have shaped the 20th century from its first decade to its last, and Europe continues to have to deal with the consequences of forced population transfers. One of the most significant events of this kind has been the...