Institutional Design
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A resolvable frozen conflict? Designing a settlement for Transnistria
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.
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Post-conflict State Building: The Debate on Institutional Choice
This article finds substantial conceptual and empirical evidence that consociational institutions hold significant promise for building democratic states after conflict in divided societies.
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Post-conflict State Building: The Debate on Institutional Choice
This talk starts with the observation that a significant theoretical and empirical question underlying much...
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The Aland Example of International Conflict Resolution
This conference concludes a two-year research project by the Åland Islands Peace Institute on the...
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Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering...
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The Merits and Perils of Territorial Accommodation
Subsequently published in Political Studies Review (vol. 9, no. 1, 2011) this review essay...
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Libya’s Draft Constitutional Charter for the Transitional Stage: Promise and Drawbacks
Circulated widely and well before the Libyan revolution reached its climax so far with the...
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Building a democratic state for the new Libya
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After...
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Leadership, Diplomacy, and Institutional Design
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the Brandt School’s speaker series, my talk engages...
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A Consociational Theory of Conflict Management
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the IBEI speaker series, I gave a talk...
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The Prospects of a Sustainable Conflict Settlement for Transnistria
The conflict over Transnistria in Moldova has made little progress towards a settlement since the...
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A Resolvable Frozen Conflict? The Domestic and International Politics of Self-Determination in Moldova and Transnistria
As part of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton...
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A Resolvable Frozen Conflict?
This working paper offers a conceptually grounded comparison of five past proposals for settling the...
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Approaches to Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies
The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance This paper, published in the Ethnopolitics Papers series of the...
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TEDGlobal2010 Talk: There is no good news about ethnic conflict and civil war...or is there?
I was one of the speakers at the TEDGlobal 2010 Conference in Oxford in July...
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Governing (in) Kirkuk
Published in International Affairs, this article focuses on the dynamics of the process of settling...
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Ethnic Conflict Resolution as Institutional Design: The Case of the Western Balkans
This article, co-authored with Zoran Ilievski from the University of Skopje, Macedonia, develops a classification...
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Idiosyncrasy or Foresight: Pre-1990 Cases of Territorial Autonomy in Europe
Published in Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (ed. by Marc Weller and...
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Complex Power Sharing
The democratic governance of divided societies can pose particular challenges. Yet, while diversity is the...
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Building Democratic States after Conflict: Institutional Design Revisited
Subsequently published in International Studies Review (vol. 12, no. 1, 2010), this essay reviews four...
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Post-American Iraq
At this special Chatham House conference, I was one of the invited international experts to...
