Christopher M Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher M Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher M |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7506-600X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Transnational veto players in conflict negotiations
This study analyzes how cross-border (transnational) groups constrain state’s commitments in international mediation and argues they serve as “transnational veto players” whose incentive and cost structures fall out of alignment with the negotiating state during mediation. This creates opportunities and incentives to veto policy change. Their influence is most evident when mediators use leverage against states to reorder preferences, but transnat…
Cross-border clientelism, commitment, and the protraction of irredentist conflicts
Irredentist disputes have produced distinct political ethnoterritories under the de jure sovereignty of recognised parent states, but the de facto political authority of external national homelands. This study problematises the relationship between national homeland and claimed ethnoterritory as a nested game in which, in addition to bargaining with each other, they face internal competition, outbidding, and changing costs of conflict, ultimately…
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox
This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, assert or construct state sense of self in international society. The article articulates the dynamic relationship between the two audiences of public architecture projects – international and domestic – and demonstrates how a project aimed at ensuring ontological security with one audience ca…
In-group competition & out-group cooperation
This study examines intra-group competition over settlements in protracted conflicts, focusing on how they empower certain veto players allowing them to make deals across ethnic boundaries to compete with co-ethnic elites for in-group support. Institutional settlements can provide material benefits alongside conditions for participation in shared institutions to access those benefits. Cooperative players who emerge as alternatives to status quo v…
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict
Since entering Kosovo politics in 2013, the Serb List (SL) monopolized political representation in the Kosovo Serb community. This study addresses dual questions of why a dominant party emerged within a distinct ethnic community in 2013, and how it monopolized representation. I argue that a dominant party was strategically developed to coordinate preferences and reduce intra-communal opposition, allowing representatives to participate uncontested…
Ethnic Protection Rackets
For the ten years prior to the Turkish partition of Cyprus into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, the Turkish Cypriot community lived in distinct ethnic enclaves governed by a parallel Turkish Cypriot administration. I argue that Turkish Cypriot elites formed a system of reciprocal relations with their community by acting as ethnic protection racketeers. With few material resources, but a demand for protection during intercommunal fighting, Turkis…
Linking to the State
Fighting in Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia ended with internationally-sponsored settlements aimed at constituting unified states, but participatory politics by ethnic groups differed afterwards. This study asks how institutional mechanisms of statebuilding led to disparate forms of participation at different levels of governance. The principle conclusion is that both participation and ways of contesting government policies or actions are condition…
The EU and rule of law development in Kosovo
This study addresses the problem of persistent elite corruption in post-conflict Kosovo. Despite the presence of the EU Rule of Mission (EULEX) since 2008, it has failed to convict prominent officials, perceptions of corruption are high, and perceptions of EULEX performance are low. This study analyzes how corrupt elites are able to avoid prosecution and retain impunity. Deployment of EULEX coincided with internationally mediated efforts at dialo…
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict
Since entering Kosovo politics in 2013, the Serb List (SL) monopolized political representation in the Kosovo Serb community. This study addresses dual questions of why a dominant party emerged within a distinct ethnic community in 2013, and how it monopolized representation. I argue that a dominant party was strategically developed to coordinate preferences and reduce intra-communal opposition, allowing representatives to participate uncontested…
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox
This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, assert or construct state sense of self in international society. The article articulates the dynamic relationship between the two audiences of public architecture projects – international and domestic – and demonstrates how a project aimed at ensuring ontological security with one audience ca…
Ethnic Protection Rackets
For the ten years prior to the Turkish partition of Cyprus into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, the Turkish Cypriot community lived in distinct ethnic enclaves governed by a parallel Turkish Cypriot administration. I argue that Turkish Cypriot elites formed a system of reciprocal relations with their community by acting as ethnic protection racketeers. With few material resources, but a demand for protection during intercommunal fighting, Turkis…
Linking to the State
Fighting in Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia ended with internationally-sponsored settlements aimed at constituting unified states, but participatory politics by ethnic groups differed afterwards. This study asks how institutional mechanisms of statebuilding led to disparate forms of participation at different levels of governance. The principle conclusion is that both participation and ways of contesting government policies or actions are condition…
The EU and rule of law development in Kosovo
This study addresses the problem of persistent elite corruption in post-conflict Kosovo. Despite the presence of the EU Rule of Mission (EULEX) since 2008, it has failed to convict prominent officials, perceptions of corruption are high, and perceptions of EULEX performance are low. This study analyzes how corrupt elites are able to avoid prosecution and retain impunity. Deployment of EULEX coincided with internationally mediated efforts at dialo…
Linking to the State
Fighting in Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia ended with internationally-sponsored settlements aimed at constituting unified states, but participatory politics by ethnic groups differed afterwards. This study asks how institutional mechanisms of statebuilding led to disparate forms of participation at different levels of governance. The principle conclusion is that both participation and ways of contesting government policies or actions are condition…
Ethnic Protection Rackets
For the ten years prior to the Turkish partition of Cyprus into Greek and Turkish Cypriot zones, the Turkish Cypriot community lived in distinct ethnic enclaves governed by a parallel Turkish Cypriot administration. I argue that Turkish Cypriot elites formed a system of reciprocal relations with their community by acting as ethnic protection racketeers. With few material resources, but a demand for protection during intercommunal fighting, Turkis…
In-group competition & out-group cooperation
This study examines intra-group competition over settlements in protracted conflicts, focusing on how they empower certain veto players allowing them to make deals across ethnic boundaries to compete with co-ethnic elites for in-group support. Institutional settlements can provide material benefits alongside conditions for participation in shared institutions to access those benefits. Cooperative players who emerge as alternatives to status quo v…
Dominant party politics and ethnic coordination after conflict
Since entering Kosovo politics in 2013, the Serb List (SL) monopolized political representation in the Kosovo Serb community. This study addresses dual questions of why a dominant party emerged within a distinct ethnic community in 2013, and how it monopolized representation. I argue that a dominant party was strategically developed to coordinate preferences and reduce intra-communal opposition, allowing representatives to participate uncontested…
Cross-border clientelism, commitment, and the protraction of irredentist conflicts
Irredentist disputes have produced distinct political ethnoterritories under the de jure sovereignty of recognised parent states, but the de facto political authority of external national homelands. This study problematises the relationship between national homeland and claimed ethnoterritory as a nested game in which, in addition to bargaining with each other, they face internal competition, outbidding, and changing costs of conflict, ultimately…
The Ontological Security-Seeking Paradox
This article theorises the relationship between material environment and state ontological security by analysing how public architecture is used to defend, assert or construct state sense of self in international society. The article articulates the dynamic relationship between the two audiences of public architecture projects – international and domestic – and demonstrates how a project aimed at ensuring ontological security with one audience ca…
Transnational veto players in conflict negotiations
This study analyzes how cross-border (transnational) groups constrain state’s commitments in international mediation and argues they serve as “transnational veto players” whose incentive and cost structures fall out of alignment with the negotiating state during mediation. This creates opportunities and incentives to veto policy change. Their influence is most evident when mediators use leverage against states to reorder preferences, but transnat…
Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Elite (4 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis (3 works)