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[[Image:swpic.jpg|frame|right|Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bath, England, UK.]]
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Professor '''Stefan Wolff''' is a [[Federal Republic of Germany|German]] [[political science|political scientist]] living in the [[United Kingdom]]. He is a specialist in [[international security]], particularly in the management, settlement and prevention of [[ethnic conflict|ethnic conflicts]].
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'''Stefan Wolff''' is a [[Federal Republic of Germany|German]] [[political science|political scientist]]. He is a specialist in [[international security]], particularly in the management, settlement and prevention of [[ethnic conflict]]s. He is currently [[Professor]] of International Security at the [[University of Birmingham]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=410234&sectioncode=26|title=Appointments|date=4 February 2010|work=Times Higher Education|accessdate=25 March 2010}}</ref> Born in 1969,<ref>{{cite web|url= https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03736084/officers|title=Companies House record|accessdate=8 May 2018}}</ref> He studied as an undergraduate at the [[University of Leipzig]] and holds a [[Master's degree]] from [[Magdalene College, Cambridge|Magdalene College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]], and a [[PhD]] from the [[London School of Economics]], where he studied under the supervision of [[Brendan O'Leary]]. His doctoral thesis, dated 2000, was titled [http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1515/ Managing disputed territories, external minorities and the stability of conflict settlements: A comparative analysis of six cases].<ref>{{cite thesis|last=Wolff|first=Stefan|date=2000|title=Managing disputed territories, external minorities and the stability of conflict settlements: A comparative analysis of six cases|type=PhD|publisher=London School of Economics and Political Science|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1515/|access-date=25 June 2021}}</ref>
 
==Research interests==
A political scientist by background, Stefan Wolff specialisesspecializes in the prevention, management and settlement of [[Ethnic conflict|ethnic]] and [[Religious war|religious self-determination conflictsconflict]]s and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in [[Northern Ireland]], the [[Balkans]] and the [[Middle East]], and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhereregions, including [[Central Europe|Central]] and [[Eastern Europe]], [[Africa]], and [[Central Asia|Central]] and [[Southeast Asia]].▼
 
==Career==
= Background =
Bridging the divide between academia and policy-making, Wolff is a consultant for major national and international governmental and non-governmental organisationsorganizations and the private sector. WolffHe is part of a small team of experts studying and developing complex institutional design solutions for self-determination conflicts, funded, among others, by the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|Carnegie Endowment]]. He is also coordinating a research group examining the influence of external factors on the development and stability of ethnic autonomy regimes. Other research and consulting projects in this area have been funded by the [[UK Foreign Office]], the [[Westminster Foundation for Democracy]] and the [[British Academy]]. He is currentlyconvener advisingof threethe Central[[Political Studies Association]]'s Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics and Easternthe [[European governmentsConsortium for Political Research]]'s Standing Group on issuesSecurity relatedIssues. toWolff ongoingis conflictsa inmember theirof the executive committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the [[International Studies Association]] and a member of the executive board of the [[Association for the Study of jurisdictionsNationalities]].▼
 
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▲A political scientist by background, Stefan Wolff specialises in the prevention, management and settlement of ethnic and religious self-determination conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and the Middle East, and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and Central and Southeast Asia.
 
== Selected works ==
▲Bridging the divide between academia and policy-making, Wolff is a consultant for major national and international governmental and non-governmental organisations and the private sector. Wolff is part of a small team of experts studying and developing complex institutional design solutions for self-determination conflicts, funded, among others, by the Carnegie Endowment. He is also coordinating a research group examining the influence of external factors on the development and stability of ethnic autonomy regimes. Other research and consulting projects in this area have been funded by the UK Foreign Office, the Westminster Foundation for Democracy and the British Academy. He is currently advising three Central and Eastern European governments on issues related to ongoing conflicts in their jurisdictions.
=== Monographs ===▼
* ''Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement'' (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003, paperback 2004) {{ISBN [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=1571816577|1571816577]1-57181-657-7}}▼
* ''The German Question. An Analysis with Key Documents'' (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) {{ISBN: 0275972690|0-275-97269-0}} ▼
* ''Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited'' (co-authored with Karl Cordell) (London: Routledge, 2005) {{ISBN: 0415369746|0-415-36974-6}} ▼
* ''Ethnic Conflict'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) {{ISBN: 0192805878|0-19-280587-8}}▼
 
=== Edited Volumesvolumes ===▼
As convener of the Ethnopolitics Specialist Group within the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom (http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw/ethnopolitics), and the Standing Group on Security Issues of the European Consortium for Political Research, Wolff has built a global network of professionals with a wide range of geographic and topical expertise.
* ''Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative Approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies'', ed. by Marc Weller and Stefan Wolff (London: Routledge, 2005) {{ISBN: 0415339863|0-415-33986-3}} ▼
* ''The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe'', ed. by Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004) {{ISBN: 0333971248|0-333-97124-8}}▼
* ''Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts. Perspectives on Successes and Failures from Africa, Asia, and Europe'', ed. by Ulrich Schneckener and Stefan Wolff (New York and London: Hurst, 2004; US edition: Palgrave) {{ISBN: 1403966230|1-4039-6623-0}} ▼
* ''Minority Languages in Europe: Framework, Status, Prospects'', ed. by Stefan Wolff and Gabrielle Hogan-Brun (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003) {{ISBN: 1403903964|1-4039-0396-4}} ▼
* ''Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland. With a Foreword by Lord Alderdice'', ed. by Jörg Neuheiser and Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003, paperback 2004) {{ISBN: 1571816585|1-57181-658-5}} ▼
* ''Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic'', ed. by David Rock and Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2002), {{ISBN: 1571817298|1-57181-729-8}} ▼
* ''German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging'', ed. by Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2000) {{ISBN: 157181504X |1-57181-504-X}}▼
 
==References==
Wolff’s publications to date include eleven books and over twenty journal articles and book chapters. Among his books are Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement (2002); The German Question since 1919 (2003); Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts (with Ulrich Schneckener, 2004); Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland (with a foreword by Lord Alderdice, with Jörg Neuheiser, 2002), Autonomy and Self-determination (with Marc Weller, 2005) and Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic in the Process of EU Enlargement (with Karl Cordell, 2005). Wolff’s Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe (with Karl Cordell) was published by Palgrave as the first comprehensive analysis of ethnic politics across the European continent in 2004 and has won critical praise from scholars and analysts. He is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics (www.ethnopolitics.org), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of ethnic conflicts and their management around the globe, which, after three years as an online-only journal, has been published by Routledge in hardcopy since 2005. Commissioned and accepted for publication by Oxford University Press, Wolff’s Ethnic Conflict is due to appear in March 2006 and will be the first major treatment of the subject aimed at a broad general audience, rather than at narrower academic readership.
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== External Linkslinks ==▼
▲Stefan Wolff is Member of the Executive Committee of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration Section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA) and Member of the Executive Board of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). He is Professor of Political Science at the University of Bath, England, UK, and since the academic year 2003/4 also held concurrent appointments as Professorial Lecturer in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna Center, and as Resource Fellow of the Open Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Programme. Since 2005, he has also been a Teaching Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.
* [http://www.polsis.bham.ac.uk/staff/wolff.shtml Staff profile at the University of Birmingham]
In 2003, he was appointed Senior Non-resident Research Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.
* [http://www.stefanwolff.com Personal homepage]
* [http://www.ethnopolitics.org PSA Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050314013952/http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw/ecpr/ ECPR Standing Group on Security Issues]
* [http://www.ecmi.de The European Centre for MinortyMinority Issues (http://www.ecmi.de)]▼
 
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Stefan Wolff holds a Masters Degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
 
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= Books by Stefan Wolff =
[[Category:German political scientists]]
 
[[Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham]]
▲== Monographs ==
[[Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics]]
▲* ''Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement'' (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003, paperback 2004) ISBN [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Booksources&isbn=1571816577|1571816577]
[[Category:Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge]]
▲* ''The German Question. An Analysis with Key Documents'' (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003) ISBN: 0275972690
[[Category:Academics of the University of Nottingham]]
▲* ''Germany's Foreign Policy Towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited'' (co-authored with Karl Cordell) (London: Routledge, 2005) ISBN: 0415369746
[[Category:Living people]]
 
[[Category:Scholars of nationalism]]
▲== Edited Volumes ==
[[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]]
▲* ''Autonomy, Self-governance and Conflict Resolution: Innovative Approaches to Institutional Design in Divided Societies'', ed. by Marc Weller and Stefan Wolff (London: Routledge, 2005) ISBN: 0415339863
▲* ''The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe'', ed. by Karl Cordell and Stefan Wolff (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004) ISBN: 0333971248
▲* ''Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts. Perspectives on Successes and Failures from Africa, Asia, and Europe'', ed. by Ulrich Schneckener and Stefan Wolff (New York and London: Hurst, 2004; US edition: Palgrave) ISBN: 1403966230
▲* ''Minority Languages in Europe: Framework, Status, Prospects'', ed. by Stefan Wolff and Gabrielle Hogan-Brun (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003) ISBN: 1403903964
▲* ''Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland. With a Foreword by Lord Alderdice'', ed. by Jörg Neuheiser and Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2003, paperback 2004) ISBN: 1571816585
▲* ''Coming Home to Germany? The Integration of Ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in the Federal Republic'', ed. by David Rock and Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2002), ISBN: 1571817298
▲* ''German Minorities in Europe: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Belonging'', ed. by Stefan Wolff (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2000) ISBN: 157181504X
 
== Forthcoming ==
▲* ''Ethnic Conflict'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) ISBN: 0192805878
 
 
▲= External Links =
* Stefan Wolff's homepage at the University of Bath (http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw)
* Ethnopolitics (http://www.ethnopolitics.org)
* The Specialist Group on Ethnopolitics (http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw/ethnopolitics) of the Political Studies Association of the UK (http://www.psa.ac.uk)
* The Standing Group on Security Issues (http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw/ecpr) of the European Consortium for Political Research (http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr)
▲* The European Centre for Minorty Issues (http://www.ecmi.de)
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