The OSCE and Central Asia: Options for engagement
Three trends, accelerated by the Russian war in Ukraine, characterise the changing geopolitical dynamics in Central Asia: Russia's declining influence in the region, China's reluctance to step decisively into this void, and the slowly but unevenly increasing ability of the Central Asian countries to provide an alternative framework for managing regional stability.
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Implications for the OSCE
1 April 2021 | Monographs
Since its inception in late 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative has grown into a vast global development project...
Subnational Governance and Conflict
6 November 2020 | Monographs
The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. This is reflected...
The Dynamics of Emerging De-Facto States: Eastern Ukraine in the Post-Soviet Space
3 January 2019 | Monographs
What are the causes and consequences of the crisis in Ukraine, and what has been the nature of local, national, and...
Economic Diplomacy and Connectivity: What Role for the OSCE?
30 November 2018 | Monographs
Economic connectivity has been at the heart of the OSCE's Second Dimension for more than four decades. The Second Dimension may not always have received the attention that it deserves, but the successes that the OSCE has had in using the tools of economic diplomacy to...
Ethnic Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses
9 December 2009 | Monographs
Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today's world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it possible, after almost four decades, to achieve a lasting settlement to the conflict in Northern Ireland, while that in Kashmir...
Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective
22 January 2006 | Monographs
Illuminating the broad similarities between ethnic conflicts around the world, this book engages the two fundamental questions underlying them all: why do people keep killing each other and what can we do about it?
Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited
23 April 2005 | Monographs
Co-authored with Karl Cordell, this book represents a new exploration of how the events of the twentieth century still cast a shadow over relations between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Using social constructivism as its main theoretical perspective, this...
The German Question since 1919: An Analysis with Key Documents
​This book examines the domestic and international dynamics of the German question, one of the 20th century's most interesting and complex phenomena since its 1919 inception. The German question is best described as the incompatibility of the territory of any German...
Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement
Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, I contend that Western European states have a positive track record in containing and settling ethnic conflicts which...