A political scientist by background, Stefan Wolff specialises in the management of
contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic
conflicts and in post-conflict reconstruction in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He
has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans and Central and Eastern
Europe, and has also worked on a wide range of other conflicts elsewhere, including the
Middle East, Africa, and Central, South and Southeast Asia.
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. His research has been funded by the European Commission, the Economic
and Social Research Council of the UK, the UK Foreign Office, the Westminster
Foundation for Democracy and the British Academy, amounting to a total grant income
of over $500,000 over the past five years. He is currently advising two Central and
Eastern European governments on issues related to ongoing conflicts in their
jurisdictions.
As convener of the Ethnopolitics Specialist Group within the Political Studies Association
of the United Kingdom (http://www.ethnopolitics.org), and of 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.
Wolff’s publications to date include eleven books and over twenty journal articles and
book chapters. Published by Oxford University Press in 2006 (paperback in 2007),
Wolff’s Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective is the first major treatment of the subject
aimed at a broad general audience and has been highly acclaimed by academics,
policymakers, and business leaders. His 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. Among his other 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's Foreign Policy towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik
Revisited (with Karl Cordell, 2005). Wolff is the founding editor of Ethnopolitics
(http://www.informaworld.com/reno), a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to
the study of ethnic conflicts and their management around the globe.
Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Nottingham, England,
UK. He previously taught at the University of Keele and the University of Bath. Wolff has
held visiting professorships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, Bologna Center, the University of Sofia, Humboldt University Berlin
and Free University Berlin. Since 2003, he has been a Resource Fellow of the Open
Society Institute’s Academic Fellowship Programme. He is also an International Associate
of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-determination at Princeton University. Since 2005,
Wolff has been a Teaching Fellow at the Joint Services Command and Staff College of the
Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom, where he also served as a Distinguished
Visiting Fellow in 2006. In 2003, he was appointed Senior Non-resident Research
Associate at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. In 2006, he
was elected as the first-ever Europe-based member of the Advisory Board of the
“Minorities at Risk” project (http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/). He holds a Masters
Degree from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Ph.D. from the London School of
Economics and Political Science.
Website
- Series Editor (with Fiona Adamson, University College, London, and Roland Paris, University of
Colorado, Boulder), Security and Governance, a book series published by Routledge in New
York and London
- Series Editor (with Timothy D. Sisk, University of Denver, CO), Studies in Ethnopolitics, a book
series published by Berghahn Books in New York and Oxford
Ethnopolitics, a quarterly, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, published by Routledge.
- Disputed Territories: The Transnational Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict Settlement (New York and
Oxford: Berghahn, 2003)
- The German Question. An Analysis with Key Documents (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003)
German Foreign Policy towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited (coauthored
with Karl Cordell) (London: Routledge, 2005)
- Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
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