Timothy D Sisk
Biographic Data
| ID | 234995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy D Sisk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sisk |
| SIGNATURE | SISK T D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Elusive Settlements in Regional Conflict Complexes: Syria, Zartman, and the Limits of Ripeness Theory
Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract
Timothy Sisk presents a new way of conceiving the transition to democracy in South Africa. Unlike authors such as Horowitz and Lijphart, who have sought to prescribe an ideal set of post-apartheid political institutions, Sisk asks what kinds of institutions show signs of actually emerging, given recent history and present realities. He treats the problem of constructing a democratic post-apartheid society in South Africa as part of a larger condi…
Peacebuilding in Deeply Divided Societies: Toward Social Cohesion
Peacekeeping in Peril: The First 65 Years
In 1988, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its prestigious prize for peace to United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Forces: at the time, UN ‘blue helmets’ were romantically lauded by the Committee a
Democratization in the 21st Century: Reviving Transitology
The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions that are characteristic of "democratisation." This bo…
Elections and Statebuilding After Civil War
Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years
Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding
Power-Sharing in Civil War: Puzzles of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Syria's slide into sectarian civil war in 2011 raises a new fundamental knowledge question about the conditions under which power-sharing pacts can be clinched as an approach to war termination. When intrastate conflicts escalate into violent sectarian struggles, power-sharing is a likely basis of an eventual political settlement in situations where partition is off the table. This article contends that there remain two puzzling knowledge gaps ab…
Enhancing International Cooperation: From Necessity to Urgency in Responding to Intrastate Conflict
IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SERVE A TERM AS COEDITOR OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE together with Tom Farer. As Torn Farer points out in this issue, our introductory piece in the first issue of volume 16, Enhancing International Cooperation, expressed our view that the current system of global is woefully inadequate to deal with the dramatic economic, social, and political evolution of the international system in the past two decades. Looking forward, we argued t…
Presidentialism, Ethnic Violence and the Risk of Overgeneralization
Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders, Conflict, and Peacemaking
Enhancing International Cooperation: Between History and Necessity
Thoughts from the New Coeditors: Where and Why Are We Going? The transfer of editorial stewardship for a journal provides the occasion to rethink the journal's purposes and its place in the dense forest of texts claiming attention. If our view of these matters differed radically from those of our distinguished predecessors, it is very unlikely that we would have been called, much less chosen, to assume the journal's direction. Still, there are li…
Introduction: The SRSGs and the Management of Civil Wars
This article argues that mediation by special representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSGs) in civil wars involves a distinctly clear strategic purpose: by conducting international mediation and managing international assistance, SRSGs structure the incentives for parties in conflict to exchange the battlefield with a reformed, renewed, or created state. The article offers a substantive introduction to a special-focus section of this issue of …
The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations
Introduction: Understanding the Contradictions of Postwar Statebuilding Roland Paris and Timothy Sisk Part 1: Domestic and International Context 1. The Peacebuilder's Contract: How External Statebuilding Reinforces Weak Statehood Michael Barnett and Christoph Zuercher 2. Understanding the Coordination Problem in Postwar Statebuilding Roland Paris Part 2: Security 3. Foreign Militaries, Sustainable Institutions, and Postwar Statebuilding David Ede…
International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets
Introduction: Pursuing War, Negotiating Peace 1 Untold Sorrow: Civil Wars and War Termination, 1990-2007 2 Peace Processes as a Bargaining Problem 3 Peace without Victory: Escaping Untold Sorrow 4 South Africa: Negotiating Democracy after Apartheid 5 Liberia: Leveraging for Peace by Pursuing Justice 6 Burundi: Empowering the Fragile Center 7 Sri Lanka: Mediating without Power 8 Kashmir: The Power of Imagination 9 Confronting Bargaining with Bulle…
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace. By Terrence Lyons. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232p. $49.95. When a peace agreement is negotiated in civil wars today, there is a seemingly reflexive turn toward democratization as a way to move social conflicts from the battlefield to the halls of parliament; such agreements invariably entail a political transition requiring divisive and inherently difficult electoral proce…
Democracy at the Local Level: The International Idea Handbook on Participation, Representation, Conflict Management, and Governance
Introduction Concepts, Challenges, and Trends Designing Systems for Local Democracy Diversity and Democracy Enhancing Electoral Democracy Expanding Participatory Democracy Promoting Local Democracy in the Twenty-first Century Index
From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping, management of violence, power sharing, political party transformation, elections, civil society and international reactions to democratization crises) this volume consid…
Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance
Adebayo Adedeji (ed.), Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: the search for sustainable peace and good governance. London: ACDESS/Zed Books, 1999, 000 pp., £50.00, ISBN 1 85649 762 3 hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 1 85649 763 1 paperback. - Timothy Sisk and Andrew Reynolds (eds), Elections and Conflict Management in Africa. Washington DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 1998, US $14.95, ISBN 1 878379 79 8. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Book Notes
Elections and conflict management in Africa
Power sharing and international mediation in ethnic conflicts
In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, he highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitio…
Electoral system choice in South Africa: Implications for intergroup moderation
The article assesses the adoption of a proportional representation electoral system for South Africa's first post‐apartheid election, held 26–28 April 1994. The performance of the electoral system chosen for this election ‐ a form of party list proportional representation with regional and national features ‐ is argued to be an important, if not critical, element of building successful democratic post‐apartheid political institutions in this deep…
South Africa's National Peace Accord
This article examines the background, implementation, and future prospects of South Africa's National Peace Accord, a wide‐ranging agreement to curb political violence signed by mainstream political parties in September 1991. The Accord is argued to be a novel and innovative attempt to reduce political violence, but one not without serious shortcomings and pitfalls. It explains the Accord's evolution in the context of the negotiated transition fr…
Power sharing and international mediation in ethnic conflicts
In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, he highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitio…
Elections and conflict management in Africa
Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years
Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract
Timothy Sisk presents a new way of conceiving the transition to democracy in South Africa. Unlike authors such as Horowitz and Lijphart, who have sought to prescribe an ideal set of post-apartheid political institutions, Sisk asks what kinds of institutions show signs of actually emerging, given recent history and present realities. He treats the problem of constructing a democratic post-apartheid society in South Africa as part of a larger condi…
Power-Sharing in Civil War: Puzzles of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Syria's slide into sectarian civil war in 2011 raises a new fundamental knowledge question about the conditions under which power-sharing pacts can be clinched as an approach to war termination. When intrastate conflicts escalate into violent sectarian struggles, power-sharing is a likely basis of an eventual political settlement in situations where partition is off the table. This article contends that there remain two puzzling knowledge gaps ab…
Choosing and Electoral System: South Africa Seeks New Ground Rules
Choosing and Electoral SystemSouth Africa Seeks New Ground Rules Timothy D. Sisk (bio) While the tragic political violence that is threatening South Africa's transition away from apartheid raises doubts about the future of democracy in that country, nearly all observers agree that there will soon be elections under universal suffrage. With both major contenders for power—the ruling National Party (NP) and the African National Congress (ANC)—asser…
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace. By Terrence Lyons. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232p. $49.95. When a peace agreement is negotiated in civil wars today, there is a seemingly reflexive turn toward democratization as a way to move social conflicts from the battlefield to the halls of parliament; such agreements invariably entail a political transition requiring divisive and inherently difficult electoral proce…
Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance
Adebayo Adedeji (ed.), Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: the search for sustainable peace and good governance. London: ACDESS/Zed Books, 1999, 000 pp., £50.00, ISBN 1 85649 762 3 hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 1 85649 763 1 paperback. - Timothy Sisk and Andrew Reynolds (eds), Elections and Conflict Management in Africa. Washington DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 1998, US $14.95, ISBN 1 878379 79 8. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Introduction: The SRSGs and the Management of Civil Wars
This article argues that mediation by special representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSGs) in civil wars involves a distinctly clear strategic purpose: by conducting international mediation and managing international assistance, SRSGs structure the incentives for parties in conflict to exchange the battlefield with a reformed, renewed, or created state. The article offers a substantive introduction to a special-focus section of this issue of …
Enhancing International Cooperation: Between History and Necessity
Thoughts from the New Coeditors: Where and Why Are We Going? The transfer of editorial stewardship for a journal provides the occasion to rethink the journal's purposes and its place in the dense forest of texts claiming attention. If our view of these matters differed radically from those of our distinguished predecessors, it is very unlikely that we would have been called, much less chosen, to assume the journal's direction. Still, there are li…
Electoral system choice in South Africa: Implications for intergroup moderation
The article assesses the adoption of a proportional representation electoral system for South Africa's first post‐apartheid election, held 26–28 April 1994. The performance of the electoral system chosen for this election ‐ a form of party list proportional representation with regional and national features ‐ is argued to be an important, if not critical, element of building successful democratic post‐apartheid political institutions in this deep…
South Africa's constitutional choices: Points and Counterpoints
1991). South Africa's constitutional choices: points and counterpoints. Politikon: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 102-113
Choosing and Electoral System: South Africa Seeks New Ground Rules
Choosing and Electoral SystemSouth Africa Seeks New Ground Rules Timothy D. Sisk (bio) While the tragic political violence that is threatening South Africa's transition away from apartheid raises doubts about the future of democracy in that country, nearly all observers agree that there will soon be elections under universal suffrage. With both major contenders for power—the ruling National Party (NP) and the African National Congress (ANC)—asser…
South Africa's National Peace Accord
This article examines the background, implementation, and future prospects of South Africa's National Peace Accord, a wide‐ranging agreement to curb political violence signed by mainstream political parties in September 1991. The Accord is argued to be a novel and innovative attempt to reduce political violence, but one not without serious shortcomings and pitfalls. It explains the Accord's evolution in the context of the negotiated transition fr…
Electoral system choice in South Africa: Implications for intergroup moderation
The article assesses the adoption of a proportional representation electoral system for South Africa's first post‐apartheid election, held 26–28 April 1994. The performance of the electoral system chosen for this election ‐ a form of party list proportional representation with regional and national features ‐ is argued to be an important, if not critical, element of building successful democratic post‐apartheid political institutions in this deep…
Power sharing and international mediation in ethnic conflicts
In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, he highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitio…
Elections and conflict management in Africa
Book Notes
From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding
Attempts to introduce democracy in the wake of civil war face a critical problem: how can war-torn societies move towards peace and democracy when competitive politics and hard-fought elections exacerbate social and political conflict? Through a study of six themes (peacekeeping, management of violence, power sharing, political party transformation, elections, civil society and international reactions to democratization crises) this volume consid…
Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: The Search for Sustainable Peace and Good Governance
Adebayo Adedeji (ed.), Comprehending and Mastering African Conflicts: the search for sustainable peace and good governance. London: ACDESS/Zed Books, 1999, 000 pp., £50.00, ISBN 1 85649 762 3 hard covers, £16.95, ISBN 1 85649 763 1 paperback. - Timothy Sisk and Andrew Reynolds (eds), Elections and Conflict Management in Africa. Washington DC: US Institute of Peace Press, 1998, US $14.95, ISBN 1 878379 79 8. - Volume 71 Issue 1
Democracy at the Local Level: The International Idea Handbook on Participation, Representation, Conflict Management, and Governance
Introduction Concepts, Challenges, and Trends Designing Systems for Local Democracy Diversity and Democracy Enhancing Electoral Democracy Expanding Participatory Democracy Promoting Local Democracy in the Twenty-first Century Index
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace. By Terrence Lyons. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232p. $49.95. When a peace agreement is negotiated in civil wars today, there is a seemingly reflexive turn toward democratization as a way to move social conflicts from the battlefield to the halls of parliament; such agreements invariably entail a political transition requiring divisive and inherently difficult electoral proce…
International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets
Introduction: Pursuing War, Negotiating Peace 1 Untold Sorrow: Civil Wars and War Termination, 1990-2007 2 Peace Processes as a Bargaining Problem 3 Peace without Victory: Escaping Untold Sorrow 4 South Africa: Negotiating Democracy after Apartheid 5 Liberia: Leveraging for Peace by Pursuing Justice 6 Burundi: Empowering the Fragile Center 7 Sri Lanka: Mediating without Power 8 Kashmir: The Power of Imagination 9 Confronting Bargaining with Bulle…
The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the contradictions of postwar peace operations
Introduction: Understanding the Contradictions of Postwar Statebuilding Roland Paris and Timothy Sisk Part 1: Domestic and International Context 1. The Peacebuilder's Contract: How External Statebuilding Reinforces Weak Statehood Michael Barnett and Christoph Zuercher 2. Understanding the Coordination Problem in Postwar Statebuilding Roland Paris Part 2: Security 3. Foreign Militaries, Sustainable Institutions, and Postwar Statebuilding David Ede…
Enhancing International Cooperation: Between History and Necessity
Thoughts from the New Coeditors: Where and Why Are We Going? The transfer of editorial stewardship for a journal provides the occasion to rethink the journal's purposes and its place in the dense forest of texts claiming attention. If our view of these matters differed radically from those of our distinguished predecessors, it is very unlikely that we would have been called, much less chosen, to assume the journal's direction. Still, there are li…
Introduction: The SRSGs and the Management of Civil Wars
This article argues that mediation by special representatives of the Secretary-General (SRSGs) in civil wars involves a distinctly clear strategic purpose: by conducting international mediation and managing international assistance, SRSGs structure the incentives for parties in conflict to exchange the battlefield with a reformed, renewed, or created state. The article offers a substantive introduction to a special-focus section of this issue of …
Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders, Conflict, and Peacemaking
Presidentialism, Ethnic Violence and the Risk of Overgeneralization
Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding
Power-Sharing in Civil War: Puzzles of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
Syria's slide into sectarian civil war in 2011 raises a new fundamental knowledge question about the conditions under which power-sharing pacts can be clinched as an approach to war termination. When intrastate conflicts escalate into violent sectarian struggles, power-sharing is a likely basis of an eventual political settlement in situations where partition is off the table. This article contends that there remain two puzzling knowledge gaps ab…
Enhancing International Cooperation: From Necessity to Urgency in Responding to Intrastate Conflict
IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SERVE A TERM AS COEDITOR OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE together with Tom Farer. As Torn Farer points out in this issue, our introductory piece in the first issue of volume 16, Enhancing International Cooperation, expressed our view that the current system of global is woefully inadequate to deal with the dramatic economic, social, and political evolution of the international system in the past two decades. Looking forward, we argued t…
Elections and Statebuilding After Civil War
Improving Governance for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals: Scenario Forecasting the Next 50years
Democratization in the 21st Century: Reviving Transitology
The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions that are characteristic of "democratisation." This bo…
Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract
Timothy Sisk presents a new way of conceiving the transition to democracy in South Africa. Unlike authors such as Horowitz and Lijphart, who have sought to prescribe an ideal set of post-apartheid political institutions, Sisk asks what kinds of institutions show signs of actually emerging, given recent history and present realities. He treats the problem of constructing a democratic post-apartheid society in South Africa as part of a larger condi…
Peacebuilding in Deeply Divided Societies: Toward Social Cohesion
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