Ukraine war: Russia's hold on Crimea loosens
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Ten years after Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, annexed Crimea, its grip on the peninsula looks shaky.
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Blog: Social Europe
Ten years after Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, annexed Crimea, its grip on the peninsula looks shaky.
Blog: Social Europe
It must double down on aid to Kyiv, accept a compromise deal or face humiliation by Russia.
Blog: Social Europe
Ukraine is losing the war. If the west does not help now, it will face a resurgent and aggressive Russia.
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Kyiv needs a fundamental rethink of its strategy, not just a reshuffle of the military leadership.
Blog: Social Europe
Corruption scandals and high-level rifts could become an existential threat as Kyiv asks for more military aid.
Blog: Social Europe
In the Ukraine war, mixed signals among Kyiv's allies in Europe and the United States hint at growing conflict fatigue.
In: ECMI working paper 51
In: Studies in ethnopolitics
Ethnic conflicts have shaped the 20th century in significant ways. While the legacy of the last century is primarily one of many unresolved conflicts, the author contends that Western Europe has a record for settling ethnic conflicts which provides valuable lessons for conflict management elsewhere
In: Perspectives on the twentieth century
In: Journal on ethnopolitics and minority issues in Europe: JEMIE, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 86-119
ISSN: 1617-5247
Established in 1992, the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Co-operation and Security in Europe has made significant contributions to conflict prevention and management in multi-ethnic societies. In this article, I trace how, over the three decades of its existence, the institution has adopted the notion of "integration with respect for diversity" as the guiding principle of its work. I demonstrate that successive High Commissioners have relied on three main tools in their efforts – mediation and facilitation, advising on legislation and policy making, and capacity building – and illustrate this approach with examples from across the OSCE area before providing two detailed case studies of how the institution has supported Kyrgyzstan and Moldova in the development of their respective national integration strategies. I conclude that the sustainability of positive change that follows from the engagement of the High Commissioner depends significantly on the institution's ability to build local capacity to manage the process of integration with respect for diversity in the long term and with a wide range of national and international governmental and non-governmental stakeholders.
In: Nationalities papers: the journal of nationalism and ethnicity, Band 49, Heft 3, S. 542-561
ISSN: 1465-3923
AbstractFocusing on process tracing and using the example of fieldwork in Donbas, I develop an argument on what theoretically grounded and empirically detailed methodological solutions can be considered to mitigate the challenges of research on conflict zones and assure the robustness of any causal claims made. I first outline my assumptions about process tracing as the central case study method and its application to research on conflict zones, and then discuss in more detail data requirements, data collection, and data analysis. Using two examples of case studies on the war in and over Donbas, I illustrate how three standards of best-practice in process tracing—the need for a theory-guided inquiry, the necessity to enhance causal inference by paying attention to (and ruling out) rival explanations, and the importance of transparency in the design and execution of research—can be applied in the challenging circumstances of fieldwork-based case studies of conflict zones. I conclude by suggesting that as a minimum threshold for reliance upon causal inferences, these three standards also should align with a standard of evidence that requires both the theoretical and empirical plausibility of any conclusions drawn.
In: Armed conflict survey, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 65-80
ISSN: 2374-0981