Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
The author of eighteen books and over fifty journal articles and book chapters, Stefan Wolff is Professor of International Security at the University of Birmingham, England, UK. He is also A political scientist by background, he specialises in the management of contemporary security challenges, especially in the prevention and settlement of ethnic conflicts and civil wars, and in post-conflict reconstruction, peace-building and state-building in deeply divided and war-torn societies. He has extensive expertise in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, 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, he has been, and is, involved in various phases of conflict settlement processes, including in Iraq, Sudan, Moldova, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Kosovo.
Ukraine war: stakes are high for EU and Ukraine ahead of crucial European summit
Dec 12, 2023 15:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views
When the EUs heads of state and government come together in Brussels for their final European Council meeting of the year on December 14 and 15, their agenda is likely to be dominated by the war in Ukraine. As youd...
Ukraine war: Russia's hard line at European security meeting ratchets up tensions another notch
Dec 06, 2023 07:55 am UTC| Politics
After many months of diplomatic wrangling, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was granted another lease of life at the annual ministerial council meeting last week in a messy compromise between...
Nov 07, 2023 09:05 am UTC| Politics
More than 20 months into the war in Ukraine and over five months into Ukraines latest counteroffensive, the situation on the front is bleak and no breakthrough imminent, the countrys commander-in-chief admitted in a recent...
Xi-Putin meeting: here's what it says about their current, and future, relationship
Oct 15, 2023 04:13 am UTC| Insights & Views
Vladimir Putin is expected to travel outside the borders of the former Soviet Union for the first time in 20 months to meet Chinas Xi Jinping on October 17. The visit, if it happens, is likely to entrench a relationship in...
Ukraine war: mixed signals among Kyiv's allies hint at growing conflict fatigue
Sep 26, 2023 03:54 am UTC| Politics
It is now almost 600 days since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and the war that has followed has tested the resilience of both countries. But it has also tested those in the west that have supported...
Nagorno-Karabakh: longest war in post-Soviet space flares yet again as Russia distracted in Ukraine
Sep 21, 2023 00:02 am UTC| Politics
A 24-hour anti-terrorist operation launched by Azerbaijan to restore the countrys constitutional order threatened briefly to escalate into a full-scale war with Armenia over the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. But...
Moscow drone attacks are a morale booster for Ukraine and a warning for Russia – here's why
Jun 03, 2023 03:28 am UTC| Politics
A wave of approximately 30 drones appeared in skies around the Russian capital, Moscow, on May 30. Though widely sensationalised as a major attack against the heart of the Russian government, they caused only minor damage,...
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