Publications
Books
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The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager
Co-edited with Richard Whitman and published by Routledge, this book offers an up-to-date and accessible...
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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 Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict
Co-edited by Karl Cordell and myself and with contributions from leading scholars in the field,...
Book Chapters
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The Emerging Practice of Complex Power Sharing
Examining three main schools of conflict resolution—centripetalism, consociational power sharing and power dividing—and contrasting their...
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The relationships between states and non-state peoples: a comparative view of the Kurds in Iraq
Published in The Kurdish Policy Imperative (ed. by Robert Lowe and Gareth Stansfield, Chatham House,...
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The Reactive Crisis Management of the EU in the Western Balkans
Co-authored with Annemarie Peen Rodt and published in International Intervention in Local Conflicts: Crisis Management...
Book Reviews
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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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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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Conflict Resolution between Power Sharing, Power Dividing, or Beyond?
Subsequently published in Political Studies Review (vol. 5, no. 3, 2007), this essay reviews three...
Journal Articles
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Conflict Management in Divided Societies: The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance
This article establishes and tests a framework to explain the emergence of forms of territorial self-governance, examines the conditions under which they are combined with other conflict management strategies, such as power sharing, and reflects on their track record of providing stability in divided societies, finding it more promising than its critics allow.
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South Sudan’s Year One: Managing the Challenges of Building a New State
A year after independence, continuing tension with the North is not the only challenge
facing South Sudan. From the uncertain fate of the disputed territory of Abyei and cross-border inter-communal conflicts, to a lack of economic infrastructure and food insecurity, combined with a persistent failure to build successful institutions, South Sudan’s beginning as an independent state is rife with dangers. Stefan Wolff outlines the historical background and the security, political, ethnic and socioeconomic questions the South Sudanese leadership still needs to resolve. -
Assessing Regional and International Organizations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context
This special issue of Civil Wars on “Assessing Regional and International Organisations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context” includes a range of case studies on the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the African Union, and the Organisation of American States. Each case study features a presentation and analysis of empirical data in two dimensions: the organization’s general capabilities to carry out intervention in civil wars and, specific to one particular intervention, the conflict context in which it happened.
Journals
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Civil Wars
Civil Wars publishes original scholarship on all aspects of intrastate conflict, including its causes and...
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Ethnopolitics
Ethnopolitics is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal which provides a forum for serious debate and exchange...
Policy Reports
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The Transnistrian Issue
Analysing the current context of the Transnistrian conflict and drawing on an analysis of existing proposals for conflict settlement, this study offers a number of suggestions how a sustainable settlement could be achieved.
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Albanians in Montenegro: Waiting for Godot?
Co-authored with Cafo Boga and published as a supplement in the Albanian-American Illyria newspaper, this...
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Guarantees in Conflict Settlements
This paper elaborates the types of guarantees available in conflict settlement processes, identifies a range of issues that are likely to require guarantees, and offers a range of examples from conflict settlement practice that can serve as a menu of options for negotiators and mediators when tackling the issue of guarantees in the agreements they are seeking.
