How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure
Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki et al (Oxford, 2026; online edn, Oxford Academic, 9 Feb. 2026)
Vita
Argyro Kartsonaki is a senior researcher in the research area European Peace and Security Orders at the IFSH. Before joining the IFSH, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Argyro Kartsonaki holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Birmingham, UK, an MA in Political Analysis of European Public Policy from the University of Crete, Greece, and a B.A. in International and European Economic and Political Studies from the University of Macedonia, Greece.
Research profile
Argyro Kartsonaki works on peace processes and peace agreements’ design while she has a particular interest in secessionist conflicts. Her research is interdisciplinary combining international relations and international law.
- Peace processes and peace agreements' design
- Self-determination and secession
- Conflict resolution
- Civil wars
- OSCE
Memberships & professional activities
- Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham
- Co-editor, Ethnopolitics
- Co-editor, OSCE Insights
Latest Publications
Is there a right to statehood for Palestine?
Argyro Kartsonaki, Stefan Wolff, in: Podcast Navigating the Vortex | Ethnopolitics Edition | Episode 1. 27.11.2025.
Thirty years after the Balkans peace deal, a different US leadership is fumbling the war in Ukraine
Argyro Kartsonaki et al, in: The Conversation. 2.12.2025
Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%
Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki et al., in: The Conversation. Published 3 November 2025
Selected Publications
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Fontana, Giuditta,
Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha S. Neudorfer,
Stefan Wolff. 2026.
How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI: 10.1093/9780198993803.001.0001.
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Kartsonaki, Argyro. 2024.
The Strategic Use of Legitimizing Norms in Unilateral Declarations of Independence.
Global Studies Quarterly
4 (2): ksae042.
DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksae042.
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Fontana, Giuditta,
Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha S. Neudorfer,
Stefan Wolff. 2024.
The Multi-Stage Mixed Methods Framework: A New Research Design to Combine Hypothesis Development and Hypothesis Testing and to Embed Machine Learning and Practitioner Engagement in the Social Sciences.
International Political Science Review
47 (1): 3-22.
DOI: 10.1177/01925121241293109.
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Fontana, Giuditta,
Argyro Kartsonaki,
Natascha S. Neudorfer,
Dawn Walsh,
Stefan Wolff,
Christalla Yakinthou. 2021.
The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC).
Conflict Management and Peace Science
38 (3): 338-364.
DOI: 10.1177/0738894220944123.
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Kartsonaki, Argyro. 2018.
Breaking Away: Kosovo’s Unilateral Secession.
Lanham: Lexington Books.
