Institutional Outcomes of Territorial Contestation: Lessons from Post-Communist Europe, 1989–2012

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Enhancing the Robustness of Causal Claims Based on Case Study Research on Conflict Zones: Observations from Fieldwork in Donbas

“…Ker-Lindsay and Berg 2018), there is less scholarship on their emergence that would have provided a set of rival explanations (Csergo, Roseberry, and Wolff 2017).…”

Subnational Governance and Conflict

“…Csergö, Roseberry, and Wolff (2017) suggest that subnational governance arrangements in which the central government cedes political or economic power to subnational governance units are only likely in the context of state weakness or if there is a high level of external pressure to do so. Central governments are only willing to devolve genuine power if the cost of doing otherwise is too high.…”

Statehood Conflicts

“…If not independent statehood, then what? Anderson (2011) identifies a few other outcomes to the conflict: reintegration into the parent state, via force or peacefully through a negotiated agreement, or both (see also Csergo et al 2017). However, there are two more possibilities less explored in the literature (see also Table 1): one is that unrecognized states are somehow re-incarnatedone can read this way the fact that Kosovo (declared in 2008) replaced the Republic of Kosova (1991).…”

“…There are recent works important for understanding how efforts at statehood succeed or fail (e.g., Florea 2017; Griffiths 2016), but there is room for more research specifically into statehood outcomes that mean something for conflict resolution (e.g., reintegration as an outcome related to a peaceful resolution of the dispute). There are some works that have already tried to combine these two themes of statehood and conflict resolution (e.g., Caspersen 2017;Csergo et al 2017) and which have contributed to a better understanding of statehood conflicts. More research is needed in this direction.…”

“…For example, studies that look at a number of cases can include historical cases in order to procude a greater population, more extensive data and therefore stronger falsification of claims (see also King et al 1994, 22) and better conceptualization. There is also evidence to suggest that looking at historical cases might also open up new areas of research, such as exploring how state-builders die (Florea 2017) also via conflict resolution (Csergo et al 2017).…”