Contemporary Concert Diplomacy: A New Mechanism for Great Power Crisis Management in the Post-Cold War World

Tectum, Marburg 2016.

From Iran to North Korea, from the former Yugoslavia to Israel and Palestine, great powers increasingly opt for exclusive ad hoc formats in crisis management. Though lacking in aristocratic grandeur and festive surroundings, these context-specific, self-selected forums for policy-coordination in many ways resemble the nineteenth-century ‚Concert of Europe‘.

Into the Dark: Eine Reise nach Nordkorea

Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Gummersbach 2014.

„In ein unfreies Land zu reisen heißt nicht, dass man Unfreiheit besichtigt. Sehr viel mehr bedeutet es, dass man – wenn auch nur im Kleinen – selbst unfrei wird.“

»Of Peace and Power«: Promoting Canadian Interests through Peacekeeping

Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brüssel, New York, Oxford, Wien 2009.

Having participated in every peacekeeping operation set up during the Cold War and lived through the fundamental changes the activity has undergone in the 1990s, Ottawa is currently struggling to define a viable approach to peacekeeping for the 21st century.