Dr. Argyro Kartsonaki

Senior Researcher
Contact
kartsonaki@ifsh.de
Hamburg
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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

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

  • 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.
  • 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 DOI: 10.1177/01925121241293109.
  • Kartsonaki, Argyro, Aleksandar Pavković. 2021. Declarations of Independence after the Cold War: Abandoning Grievance and Avoiding Rupture. Nations and Nationalism 27 (4): 1268-1285. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12759.
  • 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.
  • Kartsonaki, Argyro. 2018. Breaking Away: Kosovo’s Unilateral Secession. Lanham: Lexington Books.
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Projects

Centre for OSCE Research (CORE)