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.
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...
The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance This paper, published in the Ethnopolitics Papers series of the...
Published in International Affairs, this article focuses on the dynamics of the process of settling...
Co-edited by Karl Cordell and myself and with contributions from leading scholars in the field,...
Published in The Kurdish Policy Imperative (ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield, Chatham House,...
The Birmingham Brief published an edited version of my analysis of the ICJ’s advisory opinion...
Co-authored with Annemarie Peen Rodt and published in International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management...
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso reproduced my analysis of the ICJ’s advisory opinion on Kosovo’s declaration...
I always tell my students that, when sitting an exam, they have to answer the...
The Nationalities Blog of the Association for the Study of Nationalities reproduced my two pieces...
I always tell my students that, when sitting an exam, they have to answer the...
UN judges have ruled that Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia did not violate international...
Peter Beaumont guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 21 July 2010 18.40 BST The long-awaited ruling on the legality of Kosovo’s...
This article, co-authored with Zoran Ilievski from the University of Skopje, Macedonia, develops a classification...
More than two years ago, in February 2008, the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo...
I served as one of two invited experts to give a presentation of the Bolzano/Bozen...
Three months after parliamentary elections were held in Iraq, a new government has yet to...
Published in Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (ed. by Marc Weller and...
The democratic governance of divided societies can pose particular challenges. Yet, while diversity is the...