State Failure
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What should we expect from the Afghanistan Conference in Bonn?
The 2011 Bonn Conference needs to make clear that the Afghan government and people and their partners in the international community are united in their efforts to make tangible and sustainable progress towards a more stable Afghanistan in an equally more stable region.
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Negotiating with the Taliban: A promising exit strategy?
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.
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The Regional Dimensions of State Failure
Published in the Review of International Studies, Vol. 37, Issue 3, this article starts by...
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Yemen and the Gulf States
On 12 May 2011, I’ll be chairing a Members’ Event at Chatham House on ...
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How to deal with Yemen
Stefan Wolff Once again, Yemen has hit the international news headlines, consolidating a widespread public perception...
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The Yemen Plane Terror Plot
Thurrock Gazette posted this Press Association interview with me on the Yemen plane terror plot...
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Yemen: Political Dynamics and the International Policy Framework
I delivered the closing remarks — Helping Yemen to help itself — at a day-long...
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Regional Dimensions of State Failure
Over the past several years, the study of international security has seen a remarkable increase...
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An EU Strategy for the South Caucasus
This is a paper that I delivered at a seminar on “Prospects for the Caucasus”...
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What defines a state as fragile?
This is the background paper for my pesentation at the opening plenary of the Chatham...
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Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal: The Common Challenge of Statebuilding
This is the written version of my concluding remarks at the roundtable discussion on Nepal,...
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State Failure in a Regional Context
Subsequently published in the Review of International Studies, this paper argues that over the past...
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Conflicts without Borders
Published in The National Interest, this short piece examines patterns of the spread of ethnic...
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Africa's conflicts
Sir – Mike Pflanz’s report (29 December 2005) on northern Uganda sheds a welcome light...
