European politics

Compliance With Negotiated Military Dispute Settlement: A Procedural Dilemma for Conflict Resolution Between Russia and Ukraine

This article integrates two strands of game-theoretical literature, one on delegated bargaining and the other on compliance, to explain the failure of the two key military dispute-settlement agreements between Russia and Ukraine. While both strands …

Crisis Governance and Protest During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe: A Conditional Grievance Theory

Why do some crisis-response policies trigger more protests than others? What does this reveal about how governments should introduce restrictive–but necessary–measures during times of crisis? This paper revisits prevailing explanations for protests …