Staff details

Teaching interests
Comparative European Politics
Ethnopolitics in Europe 

Research interests
Ethnic Politics
The Politics of Ethnicity in East-Central Europe
German Politics
Polish Politics
German-Polish Relations 

UoP Research group membership

Other research

1994 Research Project :‘The Evangelical Church in Leipzig in the Wake of German Unification’

1995 Research Project : ‘The Politics of Identity in Upper Silesia ’, Poland

1997 Leverhulme funded Research Project : ‘The Politics of Ethnicity in Poland and The European Union’.

2003 Research Project: 'The German Question Continued?  Czech-German, Polish-German Relations Since 1990'.

Grants & contracts

In July 1997  Leverhulme Trust research grant totalling £38,000 for the research project ‘The Politics of Ethnicity in Poland and The European Union’.

In March 2003 British Academy research grant of £17,000 to aid in the conducting of the research project  'The German Question Continued?  Czech-German, Polish-German Relations Since 1990'.

Publications
 

Edited Books/Co-Authored Books

K Cordell (ed): Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe, London, Routledge, 1998

K Cordell (ed): The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell (ed): Poland and The European Union, London, Routledge, 2000.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff (eds), The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe, London, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff, Germany's Foreign Policy towards Poland and the Czech Republic: Ostpolitik Revisited, Routledge, May, 2005.

K. Cordell & S.Wolff, Ethnic Conflict, Causes, Consequences and Responses, Cambridge, Polity Press , 2008

D. Smith & K. Cordell (eds.) Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Europe, Routledge, London, 2008.

K. Cordell & S.Wolff, Ethnic Conflict, Causes, Consequences and Responses, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2009.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff (eds), The Handbook on Ethnicity and Conflict Resolution, London, Routledge, 2010.



Book Chapters

K Cordell: ‘The Evangelical Church in Leipzig Today’: in E. Kolinsky (ed), Between Hope and Fear: Keele, Keele University Press, September, 1995

K Cordell: ‘The Introduction’: in K Cordell (ed), Ethnicity and Democracy in the New Europe, London, Routledge, 1998

K Cordell: ‘The Conclusion’: in Ed. K Cordell (ed), Ethnicity and Democracy in the New Europe, London, Routledge, 1998

K Cordell: ‘In Search of a Role: Church and Society in Leipzig Since Die Wende’: in D Brock (Ed), Writers and Intellectuals in the New Germany, Oxford, Berg, 2000

K Cordell: ‘Nation and Citizenship in Upper Silesia’: in B Jesih, and M Zagar (eds), The Constitutional, Legal and Political Regulation of Ethnic Relations, Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, 1999

K Cordell: ‘Poland’s German Minority’: in S Wolff (ed), German Minorities in Europe, Berghahn, Oxford, 2000

K Cordell: ‘The Introduction’: in K Cordell (ed), The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell: ‘Ethnic Conflict and Conciliation in Europe Today’: in K Cordell (ed), The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell & T Kamusella: ‘The Articulation of Identity in Silesia Since 1989’: in K Cordell (ed), The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell, T Kamusella & K Born: ‘The Future of Silesia’: in Cordell K (ed), The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell: ‘The Conclusion’: in Cordell K (ed), The Politics of Ethnicity in Central Europe, London, Macmillan, 2000

K Cordell: ‘The Introduction’: in K Cordell Poland and The European Union, London, Routledge, 2000

K Cordell: ‘The Conclusion’ in K Cordell (ed), Poland and The European Union, London, Routledge, 2000

K. Cordell & S. Wolff: ‘German-speaking Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe: An Assessment of the Legislative and Policy Framework in Poland, Hungary and Romania’, in G. Hogan-Brunn, & S. Wolff (eds), Minority Languages in Europe, London, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003

Refereed Journal Articles

K Cordell: ‘Politics and Political Change in the GDR’: Politics, 10, 2, 1990 pp.18-24

K Cordell: ‘The Basic Treaty Between the two German States in Retrospect’: The Political Quarterly, 61, 1, January, 1990 pp.36-50

K Cordell: ‘The Role of the Evangelical Church in the GDR’: Government and Opposition, 25, 1, 1990 pp.48-59

K Cordell: ‘German Unity and Soviet Security’: The Political Quarterly, 61, 3, 1990 pp.285-298

K Cordell: ‘The Evangelical Church and Political Change in the GDR’: International Relations, 10, 2, 1990 pp.161-166

K Cordell: ‘The Citizens' Movement in the GDR’: Politics and Society in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 3, 2, Spring 1991 pp.47-52

K Cordell: ‘The Birth-Pangs of the New Germany’: International Relations, 11, 4, April, 1993 pp.381-392

K Cordell: ‘Germany in Flux’: History of European Ideas: 19, 1/3, June 1994 pp.175-189

K Cordell: ‘Upper Silesia and the Politics of Accommodation’: The Journal of Regional and Federal Studies; 3, 5, 1995 pp.307-325

K Cordell: ‘European Union and the Nation State: The Politics of Hope Encounters the Politics of Experience’: The European Legacy, 1, 1 1996 pp.243-260

K Cordell: ‘Politics and Society in Upper Silesia Today: The German Minority Since 1945’: Nationalities Papers, 24, 2, 1996 pp.269-286

K Cordell: ‘Constitutional Protection, Education and the Preservation of Identity: The German Minority in Poland Today’: The Journal of Ethnic Studies, 33, 1, 1999, pp. 207-226

K. Cordell & K Born ‘Die deutsche Minderheit in Schlesien: von der Interessenvertretung zur politischen Partei’, The German Minority in Silesia, from Interest Representation to Political Party?), Deutsche Studien, 36, 3/4, 2000, pp. 321-335

K. Cordell & K Born: The German Minority in Upper Silesia: Electoral Successes and Organizational Patterns: Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 7, 1, 2001, pp. 41-61.

K. Cordell & K Born: The Strategy of the German List at the Polish Local and Regional Elections of 1998: East European Politics and Societies, 15, 3, 2001, pp. 625-648.

K. Cordell & A. Dybczyński, Poland’s Indigenous Minorities, and the Census of 2002, Perspectives on Politics on Society in Europe, 6, 1, 2005., 103-128.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff, Ethnic Germans in Poland and the Czech Republic: A Comparative Evaluation, Nationalities Papers, 33, 2, 2005 pp. 255-276

K. Cordell & Z. Hausvater, The Partnership Between the Czech and German Greens, a Research Briefing, German Politics, 15, 1, 2006, 125-128

Other academic activities

Conference and Occasional Papers

K Cordell: ‘German Political Cultures, Continuity and Change’: Departmental Occasional Paper, Plymouth Polytechnic, 1987.

K Cordell: ‘Coming to Terms with Europe; The SPD in transition 1945-1957’. The European Unity in Context Conference, The University of Hull, September, 1990.

K Cordell: ‘Nation-Building in the GDR; The Failure of the SED’: The Annual European Consortium for Political Research Conference, The University of Essex, April, 1991

K Cordell: ‘Germany in Flux’: The Third Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The University of Aalborg, August, 1992.

K Cordell: ‘The Re-awakening of the German National Right’: Research Seminar Paper at The University of Keele, February, 1993.

K Cordell: British Perspectives on German Unification: The Colloquium: Church-State-Society-Opposition in the GDR, The University of Leipzig, June, 1993.

K Cordell: The Churches in Leipzig and The Politics of Opposition; At the first Symposium, of the Everyday Life in Leipzig Research Consortium, The University of Keele, December, 1993.

K Cordell: Coming to Terms With Die Wende: The Churches in Leipzig Today: The Second Symposium of the Everyday Life in Leipzig Research Consortium , The University of Leipzig, March, 1994.

K Cordell: ‘European Union and the Nation State: The Politics of Hope Encounters the Politics of Experience’: The Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The University of Graz, August, 1994.

K Cordell, T Sullivan: ‘Upper Silesia: From Conflict to Co-operation’: The Political Studies Annual Conference, University of York, April, 1995

K Cordell: ‘Retreat From Ethnicity:? Upper Silesia and Polish-German Relations’: Plymouth, Plymouth International Papers No. 2 , April, 1995.

K Cordell: ‘Minority Rights and the Creation of a Civic Culture: The Case of Upper Silesia’: The Second Pan-European Conference in International Relations; National Foundation of Political Science, Paris, September, 1995.

K Cordell: ‘Nation and Citizenship in Upper Silesia’: The International Conference on the Constitutional Relationship of Ethnic Relations; The University of Ljubljana, March, 1996.

K Cordell: ‘Constitutional Protection, Education and the Preservation of Identity: The German Minority in Poland Today’: Conference on The Regulation and Monitoring of Ethnic Relations and Conflict, The Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November, 1997.

K Cordell: ‘The Politics of the Re-organisation of Regional and Local Government in Poland: the Case of Upper Silesia’, The Annual European Consortium for Political Research Conference, The University of Mannheim, March, 1998.

K. Cordell: ‘The Declining Relevance of the German Minority in Upper Silesia’, Presented at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Special Conference, Forli, Italy, 4-9 June, 2002

K. Cordell: The Creation of a ‘Multicultural Estonia’ and the Decline and Disappearance of the last of the Baltic Germans. Presented at the International Conference ‘Multicultural Estonia’. The Integration Foundation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Estonia. Tallinn, 24-25 October, 2002

K. Cordell: German-Polish Relations: Continuity and Change. Presented in the panel German-Czech, German-Polish Relations in the Twenty-First Century, a Comparison, at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, University of Marburg, 18-21 September, 2003.

K. Cordell: Only the Stones Remain. The Vanished Germans of Estonia and Latvia: Presented at ‘The Baltic States: New Europe or Old’ Conference, The University of Glasgow, 22-23 January 2004.

K. Cordell: ‘Self Determination, Conflict Resolution and Civil Society in the wake of 11, September, 2001: the Case of Angola’, Presented at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Budapest, 8-11 September, 2005.

K. Cordell: ‘Ethnicity and European Politics’, Presented at The Ethnicity Research Symposium, University of the West of England, 16 January 2006.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff: ‘Germany as a kin-state: the development and implementation of a norm-consistent foreign policy towards Central and Eastern Europe’, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York City, 15-19 April, 2006

Chair of ‘The Future of the European Nation-State’ workshop at The Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, The University of Graz, 11-14 August, 1994.

Co-chair of the University of Keele Research Symposium: Intellectuals, Churches and the Transformation of East Germany, 15 October 1995

Convenor and Chair of the panels: Ethnicity; Concept and Meaning and Ethnic Minorities; Portrayals and Illustrations at the annual PSA conference at the University of Glasgow, 8-10 April, 1996

Co-Chair of the International Conference on the Constitutional Relationship of Ethnic Relations in Ljubljana, 5-7 March, 1996

Founder-convenor of the Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Ethnic Minority Politics, March 1995-July 1997.

Co-convenor of the PSA specialist group on Ethnic Politics (with Stefan Wolff), June 2000 to date

Co-editor, (with Stefan Wolff) The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, the on line journal of the PSA Ethnic Politics Group, December 2000 to date

Co-editor, Ethnic Politics Research Papers (with Stefan Wolff), Ethnic Politics Research Papers, Occasional Papers published by the PSA Ethnic Politics Group, December 2000 to date

Convenor and Co-Chair of the panel: Civil Society; Democracy, Citizenship and Minorities for the Ethnic Minority Politics Group, at the Political Studies Association annual conference, at the University of Jordanstown, Belfast, 14-16 April, 1997

Convenor and Conference Chair: Ethnicity and Democratisation in The New Europe of the Political Studies Association Ethnic Minority Politics Group at the University of Plymouth, 7-9 July, 1996

Discussant of the panel: Constitutional and Electoral Engineering as Methods of Conflict Management in Ethnically Divided Societies, at the Political Studies Association annual conference, at the London School of Economics, 10-14 April, 2000

Convenor and co-chair of the panel: Post-conflict Reconstruction: Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and Southeast Asia at the Political Studies Association annual conference, the University of Manchester, 12-16 April 2001

Convenor and Co-Chair of the panels: Peace-Building and Reconstruction After ethnic Conflict and Responses to Ethnic Conflict: from Prevention to Intervention, American Political Science Annual Conference, San Francisco, 30 August 2001-2 September 2001

Convenor and Co-Chair of three panels on the Politics of Disputed Territories at the European Consortium of Political Research Conference, University of Kent, 6-10 September, 2001.

Panel Chair of the panels: Forced Migration in Africa and Ethnic German Expellees and their Integration in the Federal Republic at conference on Forced Migration, Dept of European Studies, University of Bath, 13-16 September, 2002.

Guest Speaker at the inaugural symposium : Religion, Repression, Revolution: The Churches in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Before and During the Upheavals of 1989-1991, Nanovic Institute, The University of Notre Dame, USA, 222 March, 2002.

Convenor and Co-Chair of the roundtable: Governing Ethnically Divided Societies, the panel Diaspora Politics, and the panel Structure & Agency in Conflict Regulation, at the Political Studies Association Conference, University of Leicester, 15-17 April, 2003.

Convenor and Chair of the panel: German-Czech, German-Polish Relations in the Twenty-First Century, a Comparison, at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, University of Marburg, 18-21 September, 2003.

Convenor and Co-Chair of the section: German-Czech, German-Polish Relations in the twenty-first century, a Comparison, at the European Consortium of Political Research Conference, University of Marburg, 18-21 September, 2003.

Convenor and Co-Chair of the panel: Ethnopolitics in Europe: Past, Present and Future Trends at the Political Studies Association Conference, University of Leeds, 5-7 April, 2005.

Chair of the Conceptualizing Security Panel at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Budapest, 8-11 September, 2005.

Chair of the Globalization, Empire and Security Panel at the European Consortium for Political Research Conference, Budapest, 8-11 September, 2005.

K. Cordell: ‘Ethnicity and European Politics’, Presented at The Ethnicity Research Symposium, University of the West of England, 16 January 2006.

K. Cordell & S. Wolff: ‘Germany as a kin-state: the development and implementation of a norm-consistent foreign policy towards Central and Eastern Europe’, Presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, New York City, 15-19 April, 2006

Discussant of the panels International Institutions and the Management of Communal Conflict in Europe, and Security Building in Conflict Areas, Central and East European International Studies Association Annual Conference, University of Wrocław, 24 - 26 May 2007

Discussant at the conference: Much ado about nothing? The European Neighbourhood Policy since 2003 University of Nottingham, 25-26 October 2007.

 Discussant of the Migration and Refugees Panel at the International Studies Association Conference, New York, 14-19 February, 2009.

Chair of the Secessionist Moment: Kosovo and the Future of Self-Determination panel, Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York, 22-25 April, 2009

 I am also a member of the University of Plymouth’s International Studies Centre, and is editor of the (on line) Plymouth International Papers series

I review books and articles for journals such as Contemporary European Politics, Contemporary Politics, Europe-Asia Studies, German Politics, The Journal of Regional and Federal Studies and Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Political Studies, Slavic Review, and review manuscripts and proposals for Polity, Routledge and Palgrave/Macmillan.

I am also co-editor of the fully externally refereed academic journal Ethnopolitics, published by Taylor & Francis.  Ethnopolitics is now the house journal of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN).  Taylor & Francis.  In 2007 I together with my co-editor, and the executive board of the ASN as general editors for a series on politics and ethnicity

I am also co-editor of the fully externally refereed academic journal Ethnopolitics, published by Taylor & Francis. Ethnopolitics is now the house journal of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). In 2006, Taylor & Francis appointed myself, my co-editor, and the executive board of the ASN as general editors for a forthcoming series on politics and ethnicity

Additional information

Standing at National/International Level

In 1994 I founded, and until 1997 chaired, the Ethnic Minority Politics Group of the Political Studies Association. In Spring 2001, I became co-chair of the revised Ethnic Politics Group. It remains, a fully accredited component of the PSA. Together with Professor Stefan Wolff of the University of Nottingham, I re-assumed chairing the group in 2000. I have also undertaken Visiting Lectureships at the following universities:

In the UK at the Universities of Northumbria (Spring 1997), and Keele (Autumn, 1999).

In Poland at the Universities of Cracow (Winter, 2000), Opole (Winter, 2000) and Wroclaw (Winter, 1999 to date).

In the United States at the University of Notre Dame, (Spring, 2002), and Georgetown University, (Winter, 2009)

My links with the Polish academic community were further strengthened in May 1999 under the auspices of the Socrates programme when I began a series of Visiting Lectureship inn European politics at the University of Wroclaw. With regard to both the PSA group, and the Visiting Lectureships, wereinstrumental in allowing me to construct a network of contacts in both the UK and Poland. My collaboration with the universities of Bath, Nottingham and Wroclaw has proven to be especially fruitful, and continues to develop.

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