Research
Current Projects
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Increasing UK Conflict Resolution Capacity
Violent conflict within, beyond, and between states remains a pervasive phenomenon in contemporary international affairs...
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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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Regional Dimensions of State Failure
Over the past several years, the study of international security has seen a remarkable increase...
Past Projects
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International Organisations and Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Eastern Europe
A joint project with Pieter van Houten from the University of Cambridge and funded by...
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MIRICO: Minority Rights in the Life Cycle of Ethnic Conflicts
A collaborative project, led by the European Academy of Bolzano and funded under the EU’s...
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The International Politics of Ethnic Autonomy
A collaborative project with Wolfgang Danspeckgruber from Princeton University and partners in the US, Germany,...
Working Papers
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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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Resolving Territorial Self-determination Conflicts
Territorial self-determination conflicts are conflicts in which territorially concentrated identity groups (whose identity is, in...
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Content and Context: Autonomy and Conflict Settlement in Sudan
Co-authored with Martin Ottmann, this paper starts with conceptual exploration of the utility of autonomy...
