Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Dublin City University
28 Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka (2021). ‘Peace-making: new technologies are no panacea’, Nature, 590, 389. For peace-making, artificial-intelligence and data-driven approaches (see, for example, W. Guo et al. Nature 562, 331–333; 2018) should be viewed only as complements to the existing international architecture (see go.nature.com/3q13tpe). To predict and prevent war, political will and policy innovations are still […]
Oliver P. Richmond, Gëzim Visoka, and Ioannis Tellidis, (2023) Peace in Digital International Relations: Prospects and Limitations, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The international architecture of peacebuilding and statebuilding is currently responding to a shift from ‘analogue’ to ‘digital’ approaches in international relations. This is affecting conflict management, intervention, peacebuilding, and the all-important role of civil society. […]
14. Sandra Pagodda, Oliver P. Richmond, and Gëzim Visoka (2023) Failed Peacemaking: Counter-Peace and International Order. Palgrave/Springer. This book will investigate the struggle between peace and counter-peace and lays out the contours of the emerging counter-peace architecture in the international transitional order. In particular, it examines how counter-peace tactics have been evolving into strategies and […]
13. Gëzim Visoka and Ramesh Ganohariti (forthcoming), Paradiplomacy of Aspirant States: The Politics of Sub-State Recognition, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Diplomatic recognition is a central feature of international relations. So far, we have a good understanding of national and supranational variants of diplomatic recognition, which are often studied as part of bilateral and collective recognition and […]
12. Gëzim Visoka and Edward Newman (forthcoming) The Gatekeepers of Statehood: The European Union and the Recognition of States, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. Although a great deal is known about the role of the United Nations in the recognition of states, less is known about the practice of state recognition by regional […]
27. Sandra Pogodda, Oliver P. Richmond and Gëzim Visoka (2022). ‘Counter-peace: From Isolated Blockages in Peace Processes to Systemic Patterns’, Review of International Studies. In the face of the current decline or spectacular collapse of peace processes, this article investigates whether peace has become systematically blocked. It investigates whether the ineffectiveness of an ‘international peace architecture’ (IPA) […]
26. Oliver P. Richmond, Roger Mac Ginty, Sandra Pogodda and Gëzim Visoka (2021) ‘Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes’, Peacebuilding, 9(3): 243-257. Recent critical academic work in Peace and Conflict Studies has concentrated on the agential aspects of peace but has somewhat neglected structural issues and the different types of power that may […]
25. Gëzim Visoka (2022) ‘Statehood and Recognition in World Politics: Towards a Critical Research Agenda’, Cooperation and Conflict, 57(2): 133-151. This article offers a critical outlook of existing debates on state recognition and proposes future research directions. It argues that existing knowledge on state recognition and the dominant discourses, norms and practices needs to be problematised and […]
24. Edward Newman and Gëzim Visoka, (2023) ‘The Geopolitics of State Recognition in a Transitional International Order’, Geopolitics, 28(1): 364-391. This article explores how geopolitical rivalries and tensions associated with multipolarity in a transitional international order, driven by shifts in great power influence, are shaping the international politics of state recognition. It considers the diplomatic discourse […]
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