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Expertise
- ethics of secession
- ethics of war
- de facto states
- Abkhazia, Cyprus, Taiwan, Transnistria
Expertise
Professor Bruno Coppieters is Professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He was head of this department from 2015 to 2019. He obtained his Phd in Philosophy from the Freie Universitât Berlin in 1991. His published works deal mainly with federalism, the ethics of war and secession, and conflicts on sovereignty in the Caucasus and the Balkans. He coordinated a EU financed teaching project on European Studies for the Abkhazian State University in 2012-15, and participated as an expert to the International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia (IIFFMCG) in 2009. He was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University in the academic year 2003-04. He has co-edited the following books: Contextualizing Secession: Normative Studies in Comparative Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003; Statehood and Security: Georgia After the Rose Revolution, Cambridge/Mass., MIT Press, 2005; Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases, Lanham/Md., Lexington Books, 2008 (2d edition).
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ADSI50: GRANT : Regional Integration, state building and conflict settlement in Europe and Asia.
19/08/04 → …
Project: Fundamental
Research output
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Abkhazia, Transnistria and North Cyprus: Recognition and Non-Recognition in Ceasefire and Trade Agreements: A
Coppieters, B., 2021, Post-Soviet Secessionism: Nation-Building and State-Failure after Communism. Minakov, M., Sasse, G. & Isachenko, D. (eds.). Stuttgart: ibidem, Vol. 226. p. 15-57 43 p. (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society; vol. 226).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Concluding Comments
Fotion, N., Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C. & Tian, X., 2020, Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases (3d edition). Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C. & Fotion, N. (eds.). 3 ed. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, p. 243-256 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Discrimination
Ceulemans, C., Coppieters, B., Hartle, A., Kizilkaya, Z., Leunis, J., Tian, X. & Van Damme, G., 2020, Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases (3d edition). Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C. & Fotion, N. (eds.). 3 ed. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, p. 133-153 21 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Introduction
Fotion, N., Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C., Apressyan, R., Kizilkaya, Z. & Tian, X., 2020, Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases (3d edition). Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C. & Fotion, N. (eds.). 3 ed. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, p. 1-24 25 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Just Cause
Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C., Kizilkaya, Z., Hartle, A. & Tian, X., 2020, Moral Constraints on War: Principles and Cases (3d edition). Coppieters, B., Ceulemans, C. & Fotion, N. (eds.). 3 ed. Lanham - Boulder - New York - London: Lexington Books, p. 27-48 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Brill | Nijhoff (Publisher)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)20 May 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Journal of Southeast European & Black Sea Studies (Journal)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)17 Jul 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Cornell University Press (Publisher)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)9 Apr 2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Eurasian Geography and Economics (Journal)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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What is happening to the democracies and unresolved conflicts of Eastern Europe?
Bruno Coppieters (Speaker)7 Oct 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
Press / Media
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De staatsveiligheid gaat haar boekje te buiten
4/11/19
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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"Cataluña no debe subestimar las consecuencias de una declaración unilateral de independencia"
1/08/16
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Thesis
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Alliantie met een radicaal islamitische groepering in de strijd tegen ISIS
Author: Demuynck, C., 19 Dec 2016Supervisor: Coppieters, B. (Promotor), Pepermans, A. (Jury) & Musliu, V. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Analyse van een geweldloze verzetsbeweging: Ibrahim Rugova en de DLK in Kosovo
Author: Visser, B., Jun 2015Supervisor: Coppieters, B. (Promotor), Woodward, A. (Jury) & Van Den Eeckhout, P. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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An analysis of the relation between research in the social sciences and nation-building discourses: the case of the Lega Nord in Italy.
Author: Huysseune, M., Coppieters, B., Van Den Eeckhout, P., Vos, L., Deschouwer, C., Stouthuysen, P., Hooghe, M. & Bottazzi, G., 2001Supervisor: Coppieters, B. (Promotor), Van Den Eeckhout, P. (Jury), Deschouwer, K. (Jury), Stouthuysen, P. (Jury), Hooghe, M. (Jury), Vos, L. (External person) (Jury) & Bottazzi, G. (External person) (Jury)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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An Ideological Disconnect: Great Power Politics in Central Asia.
Author: Devlieger, K. & Holslag, J., Sep 2019Supervisor: Holslag, J. (Promotor), Coppieters, B. (Jury) & Mattelaer, A. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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A Question of Sovereignty? The EU's Policy on Taiwan's Participation in International Organizations
Author: Winkler, S., Coppieters, B., Gross, E., Franckx, E., Geeraerts, G., Halbeisen, H. & Tsang, S., 4 Jul 2011Supervisor: Coppieters, B. (Promotor), Gross, E. (Jury), Franckx, E. (Jury), Geeraerts, G. (Jury), Halbeisen, H. (External person) (Jury) & Tsang, S. (External person) (Jury)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis