This talk at the Cambridge International Studies Association analyses European Union’s increasing role as a conflict manager.
My talk for the LSEE Visiting Speakers Programme focused on the prospects of resolving the...
The success of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 was possible because institutions of territorial self-governance were carefully designed to match the specific context of the situation in Macedonia, the international community, especially NATO and the EU, were ready to assist in the negotiation, implementation and operation of the agreement, and above all local leaders from both communities were, and are, willing and able to commit credibly to peaceful coexistence.
This article analyses a range of existing proposals that reflect the Moldovan, Russian/Transnistrian, and Mediators’ positions to date and proposes a framework in which these proposals, and the relative consensus they exhibit, can be accommodated.
This conference concludes a two-year research project by the Åland Islands Peace Institute on the...
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering...
Subsequently published in Political Studies Review (vol. 9, no. 1, 2011) this review essay...
At the end of 2011, it will be twenty years since the dissolution of the...
Co-organised with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and sponsored by the Department of Political...
A political settlement will only be possible and sustainable if both the Afghan government and the Taliban commit to it credibly and if it has broad regional and international support during its negotiation and implementation.
On 25 May 2011, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and...
This guest lecture at the University of Konstanz looks at the international administration of disputed...
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the Brandt School’s speaker series, my talk engages...
For almost two decades, the brief and comparatively not very intense violent conflict between Transnistria...
I was the opening speaker at an Expert Workshop on Conflict Management in Moldova at...
The conflict over Transnistria in Moldova has made little progress towards a settlement since the...
In my contribution to this special corporate briefing, I focus on the challenge of dealing...
My talk for the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme at King’s College London focuses...
As part of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton...
This working paper offers a conceptually grounded comparison of five past proposals for settling the...
The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance This paper, published in the Ethnopolitics Papers series of the...