In implementing the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) the European Union offers a deeper political and economic...
Post-Soviet Space
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,...
Ethnic Minorities in Europe
This report, prepared for the European Centre for Minority Issues, in Flensburg, Germany, provides an overview of...
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...
Coincidence or Commonality of Interests? German and American Views on NATO Enlargement
Initially, Germany and the United States were the strongest advocates of NATO enlargement. They were the first two alliance partners to change their stance from firmly ruling out the admission of former member states of the Warsaw Pact Organization to supporting...
German Minorities in Europe
The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented...