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Personal profile
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 Universität 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, 2020 (3rd edition).
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Projects
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FWOUW28: Visiting Chinese Researcher Prof. Jinjie Zhang (10/11/2019 - 09/12/2019).
10/11/19 → 9/12/19
Project: Fundamental
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OZR2908: Bilaterale samenwerking ikv gemeenschappelijk doctoraatsproject: Bench Fee voor joint PhD VUB-KMS, Kizilkaya Zafer
1/05/15 → 30/04/19
Project: Fundamental
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EU430: Grant Contract : Abkhazia University Project : ENPI/2012/309-718
1/11/12 → 31/01/15
Project: Fundamental
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FWOTM618: The effect of the privatisaton of the military force on the democratic control on military operations
Coppieters, B., Coppieters, B. & Leunis, J.
1/10/12 → 30/09/16
Project: Fundamental
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CONO377: Sponsoring delegatie studenten voor deelname National Model United Nations Seminarie UN (New York) 1 tot 5 april 2012
Coppieters, B. & De Cooman, N.
1/02/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Fundamental
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A Struggle over Recognition and Nonrecognition: The Internationalization of the Abkhaz State University
Coppieters, B., 28 Mar 2023, In: Nationalities Papers. 51, 2, p. 469-490 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Domestic and International Sovereignty: The Disputes over the Status of Abkhazia, Northern Cyprus, and Taiwan
Coppieters, B., 2022, In: Pathways to Peace and Security. 62, 1, p. 47-66 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Abkhazia, Transnistria and North Cyprus: Recognition and Non-Recognition in Ceasefire and Trade Agreements
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 › 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
Activities
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Nationalities Papers (Journal)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)
2023Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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Brill | Nijhoff (Publisher)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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ECPR International Conference online: panel "Intrastate Conflicts, Violence Mitigation and the Problems of Governance Section" in the section on Political Violence
Bruno Coppieters (Invited speaker)
30 Aug 2021 → 3 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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The Internationalisation of the Abkhaz State University
Bruno Coppieters (Chair)
6 Sep 2021 → 7 Sep 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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Springer (Publisher)
Bruno Coppieters (Peer reviewer)
2021Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication peer-review
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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"Canada's True North, Strong and Free": Canadese preferenties en de Arctische Raad.
Author: Demesmaeker, K., Coppieters, B., MacAj, G. & Woodward, A., Sep 2014Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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De internationale gemeenschap en humanitaire interventie: belangen versus beginselen in de gevallen Kosovo en Libië
Author: Debras, A., Delwaide, J., Coppieters, B. & Depoorter, I., May 2014Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Les déterminants de la reconnaissance internationale : les États européens face au cas du Kosovo
Author: Laborderie, V. & Coppieters, B., 27 Jun 2017Supervisor: De Wilde, T. (External person) (Promotor), Liégois, M. (External person) (Jury), Paquin, J. (External person) (Jury), Vercauteren, P. (External person) (Jury) & Leray, R. (External person) (Jury)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Production of Public Spaces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: The Case of Dawar in Nablus and Manara in Ramallah
Author: Coppieters, B., Zawawi, Z. & Zitouni, B., 28 Nov 2012Supervisor: Corijn, E. (Promotor) & Van Heur, B. (Promotor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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The Exploitation of Economic Leverage in Conflict Protraction: Modes and Aims. The Cases of South Ossetia and Abkhazia (1992-2008)
Author: Coppieters, B., Prelz Oltramonti, G., Merlin, A., Olsson, C., Wasinski, C., Serrano, S. & Broers, L., 20 Oct 2015Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis