PSc 5600: NATIONALISM AND ETHNIC POLITICS
Prof. Paul Goode
University of Oklahoma
Fall 2011
Kaufman Hall 234
Th 3:00-5:50 pm
Office: Bizzell 247
Office hours: TTh 12:00-1:00
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (405) 325-2023
COURSE DESCRIPTION
National and ethnic identity as a political phenomenon is particularly good at both raising questions and
evading answers. Is nationalism, in the words of George Orwell, merely “power hunger tempered by
self-deception,” or does it contribute to the development of a democratic and tolerant citizenry? Did
nationalism and the modern state arise simultaneously, or did one produce the other? How do elites
seek to mobilize primordial bonds of kinship and loyalty, and what accounts for their success or failure
to do so? When do nationalists seek autonomy or secession, and how might they be induced to share
power after achieving independence? What motivates violence among ethnic actors and how might it
be contained? This course examines major theoretical approaches and thematic issues relevant to
understanding nationalism and ethnic politics.
COURSE OUTLINE
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Overview
Modernist and Constructivist Approaches
Primordialist, Perennialist, and Ethno-Symbolist Approaches
Instrumentalist and Institutionalist Approaches
Methods and Fieldwork
TAKE HOME EXAM ON THEORIES
Mobilization and Secession
Conflict and Violence
NO CLASS
Boundaries, Territory, and Partition
Power Sharing and Accommodation
Gender
Globalization
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
DRAFT RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS
DRAFT RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTATIONS
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READINGS
The following texts will be on order with the university bookstores:
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History. Second ed. Cambridge: Polity, 2010. ISBN
9780745651286
Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
Revised ed. New York: Verso, 2006. ISBN 9781844670864
Abdelal, Rawi. Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2009. ISBN 9780521732093
Beissinger, Mark R. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002 ISBN 9780521001489
John L. and Jean Comaroff. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 9780226114729
Žarkov, Dubravka. The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia. Durham
N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. ISBN 9780822339663
Additional readings marked [D2L] on the syllabus will be posted on Desire 2 Learn (learn.ou.edu), while
most articles are available through the library’s website (library.ou.edu).
ASSIGNMENTS AND EVALUATION
Attendance and discussion (15%)
Students are expected to attend the seminar regularly and to
come prepared to discuss each week’s assigned readings.
Weekly discussion questions (15%)
Prior to each meeting, students are required to submit 3-5
questions to be discussed in seminar. The questions should
be drawn from, inspired by, or reacting to each week’s
readings. The questions must be submitted to the discussion
board on desire2learn at least one day prior to the seminar
meeting.
Take home exam (20%)
Following week 5, there will be a take home exam that will
cover the major theories and approaches in the study of
nationalism and ethnic politics. The exam will require
students to respond to a question similar to those you are
likely to encounter on a comprehensive field exam. The
exams are to be submitted to the dropbox on D2L, and are
due on Thursday, September 29.
Research paper (50%)
All students are required to write a substantial research
paper (25-30 pages). The topics are wide open and can focus
on theoretical, thematic, or country-specific issues. Students
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are encouraged to discuss their paper topics with the
professor in advance. Weeks 15-16 is reserved for students
to present and discuss drafts of their research papers in the
seminar. The research paper is due on December 15, and
should be submitted in both hard copy and electronic
format.
ACCOMMODATION
Any student in this course who has a disability that may prevent him or her from fully demonstrating his
or her abilities should contact me personally at the beginning of the semester so we can discuss
accommodations necessary to ensure full participation and facilitate your educational opportunities.
The university requires students with disabilities to register with the Office of Disability Services (located
in Goddard Health Center, Suite 166, phone 325-3852 or TDD only 325-4173) prior to receiving
accommodations in this course.
It is the policy of the University to excuse absences of students that result from religious observances
and to provide without penalty for the rescheduling of examinations and additional required classwork
that may fall on religious holidays. Students who plan to observe a holiday should notify me
immediately in order to make appropriate arrangements.
ACADEMIC HONESTY
While academic honesty is presumed and required on the part of students in this course, you are
encouraged to read and familiarize yourself with the university’s Academic Misconduct Code
(http://www.ou.edu/provost/integrity/). This is particularly important for the research paper if you are
uncertain about the proper use of quotations or footnotes. If you use other people’s work without
crediting them, then you are presenting them as your own. This is known as plagiarism and the
penalties are severe. I have zero tolerance for academic dishonesty.
IMPORTANT DATES
Final day to register or add a class: Fri, Aug 26
Labor Day Holiday: Mon, Sep 5
Exam on Theories Due: Thurs, Sep 29
Final day to drop a course with an automatic W: Fri, Oct 28
Thanksgiving holiday: Nov 23-27
Draft Research Presentations: Dec 1-8
Research Paper Due: Dec 15
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Week 1 (Aug 25): Overview
Required:
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. (Ch.s 1-4, pp.1-86)
[D2L] Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Ethnicity and Nationalism. Second ed. London: Pluto Press, 2002. (Ch.s 1,
6; pp.1-18, 110-120)
Yack, Bernard. "The Myth of the Civic Nation." Critical Review 10, no. 2 (1996): 193-211.
Recommended:
Barrington, Lowell W. ""Nation" and "Nationalism": The Misuse of Key Concepts in Political Science." PS:
Political Science & Politics 30, no. 4 (1997): 712-7.
Breuilly, John. Nationalism and the State. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. (Appendix,
pp.404-424)
Calhoun, Craig. Nationalism: Open University Press, 1997.
Chandra, Kanchan. "What Is Ethnic Identity and Does It Matter?" Annual Review of Political Science 9,
no. 1 (2006): 397-424.
Connor, Walker. "A Nation Is a Nation, Is a State, Is an Ethnic Group, Is A..." Ethnic and Racial Studies 1,
no. 4 (1978): 377-400.
Delanty, Gerard, and Patrick J. O'Mahony. Nationalism and Social Theory: Modernity and the
Recalcitrance of the Nation. London: SAGE, 2002.
Hale, Henry E. "Explaining Ethnicity." Comparative Political Studies 37, no. 4 (2004): 458-85.
King, Charles. "Nations and Nationalism in British Political Studies." In The British Study of Politics in the
Twentieth Century, edited by Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown, 313-44. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Özkirimli, Umut. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
Renan, Ernest. "Qu'est-Ce Qu'une Nation?" In Nationalism, edited by John Hutchinson and Anthony D.
Smith, 17-18. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History. Cambridge: Polity, 2001.
Young, Crawford. "The Dialectics of Cultural Pluralism: Concept and Reality." In The Rising Tide of
Cultural Pluralism: The Nation-State at Bay?, edited by Crawford Young, 3-35. Madison:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
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Week 2 (Sep 1): Modernist & Constructivist Approaches
Required:
[D2L] Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. (Ch.s 1, 5; pp.1-7,
53-62)
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. (Ch.s 1-7, 10; pp.1-140, 163-186)
Recommended:
Billig, Michael. Banal Nationalism. London: Sage Publications, 1995.
Breuilly, John. Nationalism and the State. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Brubaker, Rogers. Ethnicity without Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Chandra, Kanchan. "Symposium: Cumulative Findings in the Study of Ethnic Politics." APSA-CP 12, no. 1
(2001): 7-25.
Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1993.
Deutsch, Karl W. Nationalism and Social Communication: MIT Press, 1966.
Gellner, Ernest. Thought and Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.
Eley, Geoff, and Ronald Grigor Suny, eds. Becoming National: A Reader. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1996.
Haas, Ernst B. "Nationalism: An Instrumental Social Construction." Millennium: Journal of International
Studies 22, no. 3 (1993): 505-45.
Hall, John A., ed. The State of the Nation: Ernest Gellner and the Theory of Nationalism. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hechter, Michael. Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.
Hobsbawm, E. J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. 2nd ed. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Reprint ed. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
Hroch, Miroslav. Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social
Composition of Patriotic Groups among the Smaller European Nations. New ed. New York:
Columbia University Press, 2000.
Kedourie, Elie. Nationalism. 4th, expanded ed. Oxford; Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993.
Kohn, Hans. The Idea of Nationalism: A Study in Its Origins and Background. New Brunswick: Transaction
Publishers, 2005 (1944).
Motyl, Alexander J. "Imagined Communities, Rational Choosers, Invented Ethnies." Comparative Politics
34, no. 2 (2002): 233-50.
Motyl, Alexander J. "The Social Construction of Social Construction: Implications for Theories of
Nationalism and Identity Formation." Nationalities Papers 38, no. 1 (2010): 59 - 71.
Nairn, Tom. The Break-up of Britain: Crisis and Neo-Nationalism. London: NLB, 1977.
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and
Nationalism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Weber, Eugen J. Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914. Palo Alto:
Stanford University Press, 1976.
Wedeen, Lisa. Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2008.
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Week 3 (Sep 8): Primordialist, Perennialist, and Ethno-Symbolist Approaches
Required:
[D2L] Hutchinson, John, and Anthony D. Smith, eds. Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press,
1994. (readings by Armstrong, Smith, and Connor; pp.140-159)
Connor, Walker. "Beyond Reason: The Nature of the Ethnonational Bond." Ethnic and Racial Studies 16,
no. 3 (1993): 373-89.
Eller, Jack David, and Reed M. Coughlan. "The Poverty of Primordialism: The Demystification of Ethnic
Attachments." Ethnic and Racial Studies 16, no. 2 (1993): 183-202.
Grosby, Steven. "The Verdict of History: The Inexpungeable Tie of Primordiality--a Response to Eller and
Coughlan." Ethnic and Racial Studies 17, no. 1 (1994): 164-71.
[D2L] Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Modernism: A Critical Survey of Recent Theories of Nations and
Nationalism. New York: Routledge, 1998. (Ch.s 7-8, pp.145-198)
Gil-White, Francisco J. "How Thick Is Blood? The Plot Thickens . . .: If Ethnic Actors Are Primordialists,
What Remains of the Circumstantialist / Primordialist Controversy?" Ethnic and Racial Studies
22, no. 5 (1999): 789 - 820.
Recommended:
Armstrong, John A. Nations before Nationalism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
Connor, Walker. Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1994.
Geertz, Clifford. "The Integrative Revolution: Primordial Sentiments and Civil Politics in the New States."
In Old Societies and New States: The Quest for Modernity in Asia and Africa, edited by Clifford
Geertz. New York: Free Press, 1963.
Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Grosby, Steven Elliott, and Athena S. Leoussi, eds. Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and
Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
Hastings, Adrian. The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion, and Nationalism. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Isaacs, Harold R. Idols of the Tribe: Group Identity and Political Change. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Roshwald, Aviel. The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Shils, Edward. "Primordial, Personal, Sacred and Civil Ties: Some Particular Observations on the
Relationships of Sociological Research and Theory." The British Journal of Sociology 8, no. 2
(1957): 130-45.
Smith, Anthony D. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Reprint ed. New York: Blackwell, 1988.
Smith, Anthony D. Ethno-Symbolism and Nationalism: A Cultural Approach. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Van den Berghe, Pierre. "Race and Ethnicity: A Sociobiological Perspective." Ethnic and Racial Studies 4,
no. 1 (1978): 20-46.
Warwick Debates on Nationalism (Smith v. Gellner):
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/gellner/Warwick0.html
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Week 4 (Sep 15): Instrumentalist & Institutionalist Approaches
Required:
Bates, Robert H. "Ethnic Competition and Modernization in Contemporary Africa." Comparative Political
Studies 6, no. 4 (1974): 457-84.
[D2L] Rabushka, Alvin, and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Politics in Plural Societies: A Theory of Political
Instability. Columbus: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1972. (Ch. 3, pp.62-92)
Chandra, Kanchan. "Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability." Perspectives on Politics 3, no. 02 (2005):
235-52.
[D2L] Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New
Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Ch.s 1-3, pp.13-76)
Harty, Siobhan. "The Institutional Foundations of Subnational National Movements." Comparative
Politics 33, no. 2 (2001): 191-210.
[D2L] Lieberman, Evan S., and Prerna Singh. "Measuring the State's Institutionalization of Ethnic
Categories across Time and Space." Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 7, no. 1 (2009): 29-35.
Recommended:
Barth, Frederik. "Introduction." In Ethnic Groups and Boundaries, edited by Frederik Barth, 9-38. Long
Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998 (1969).
Brubaker, Rogers. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1992.
Chandra, Kanchan. Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Headcounts in India. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. "Explaining Interethnic Cooperation." American Political Science
Review 90, no. 4 (1996): 715-35.
Habyarimana, James, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein. "Why Does
Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision?" American Political Science Review 101, no.
04 (2007): 709-25.
Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Hechter, Michael. Containing Nationalism. New ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Laitin, David D. Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Laitin, David D. Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the near Abroad. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1998.
Lieberman, Evan S. Boundaries of Contagion: How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to
Aids. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Marx, Anthony W. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Olzak, Susan, and Joane Nagel, eds. Competitive Ethnic Relations. Orlando: Academic Press, 1986.
Posner, Daniel N. Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Week 5 (Sep 22): Methodology and Fieldwork
Required:
Abdelal, Rawi. Measuring Identity: A Guide for Social Scientists. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2009.
Recommended:
Beissinger, Mark R. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. (methodological appendix)
Brown, K.S. "Would the Real Nationalists Please Step Forward: Destructive Narration in Macedonia." In
Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists in Postsocialist States, edited by Hermine G. DeSoto and
Nora Dudwick, 31-48. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Brubaker, Rogers, and Frederick Cooper. "Beyond "Identity"." Theory and Society 29, no. 1 (2000): 1-47.
Cederman, Lars-Erik, Andreas Wimmer, and Brian Min. "Why Do Ethnic Groups Rebel? New Data and
Analysis." World Politics 62, no. 1 (2010): 87-119.
Chandra, Kanchan, and Steven Wilkinson. "Measuring the Effect of "Ethnicity"." Comparative Political
Studies 41, no. 4-5 (2008): 515-63.
Laitin, David D. Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the near Abroad. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1998. (methodological appendix)
Lieberman, Evan S., and Prerna Singh. "Measuring the State's Institutionalization of Ethnic Categories
across Time and Space." Qualitative & Multi-Method Research 7, no. 1 (2009): 29-35.
Megoran, Nick. "On Researching "Ethnic Conflict": Epistemology, Politics, and a Central Asian Boundary
Dispute." Europe-Asia Studies 59, no. 2 (2007): 253 - 77.
Posner, Daniel N. Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
(methodological appendix)
Schatz, Edward. Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2009.
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Week 6 (Sep 29): TAKE HOME EXAM ON THEORIES DUE
Week 7 (Oct 6): Mobilization and Secession
Required:
Beissinger, Mark R. Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002. (especially Ch.s 1-5, 9)
Recommended:
Barany, Zoltan D. "Ethnic Mobilization without Prerequisites: The East European Gypsies." World Politics
54, no. 3 (2002): 277-307.
Buchanan, Allen. Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec.
Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.
Giuliano, Elise. Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics. Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2011.
George, Julie A. The Politics of Ethnic Separatism in Russia and Georgia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Gorenburg, Dmitry P. Minority Ethnic Mobilization in the Russian Federation. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2003.
Hale, Henry E. The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the
World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. 2nd revised ed. Berkeley: University of California Press,
2000. (pp.229-288)
Horowitz, Donald. "The Cracked Foundations of the Right to Secede." Journal of Democracy 14, no. 2
(2003): 5-17.
Jenne, Erin K., Stephen M. Saideman, and Will Lowe. "Separatism as a Bargaining Posture: The Role of
Leverage in Minority Radicalization." Journal of Peace Research 44, no. 5 (2007): 539-58.
Keating, Michael. State and Regional Nationalism: Territorial Politics and the European State. New York:
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988.
Lankina, Tomila. Governing the Locals: Local Self-Government and Ethnic Mobilization in Russia. Lanham:
Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Mitra, Subrata K. "The Rational Politics of Cultural Nationalism: Subnational Movements of South Asia in
Comparative Perspective." British Journal of Political Science 25, no. 1 (1995): 57-77.
Moore, Margaret, ed. National Self-Determination and Secession. New York: Oxford University Press,
1998.
Roeder, Philip G. Where Nation-States Come From: Institutional Change in the Age of Nationalism.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Rokkan, Stein, and Derek W. Urwin. Economy, Territory, Identity: Politics of West European Peripheries.
London: Sage Publications, 1983.
Romano, David. The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization, and Identity. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Rudolph, Joseph R., Jr., and Robert J. Thompson. "Ethnoterritorial Movements and the Policy Process:
Accommodating Nationalist Demands in the Developed World." Comparative Politics 17, no. 3
(1985): 291-311.
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Week 8 (Oct 13): Conflict and Violence
Required:
Brubaker, Rogers, and David D. Laitin. "Ethnic and Nationalist Violence." Annual Review of Sociology 24
(1998): 423-52.
Kalyvas, Stathis N. "The Ontology of "Political Violence": Action and Identity in Civil Wars." Perspectives
on Politics 1, no. 03 (2003): 475-94.
Fearon, James D., and David D. Laitin. "Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War." American Political Science
Review 97, no. 1 (2003): 75-90.
Beissinger, Mark R. "Nationalist Violence and the State: Political Authority and Contentious Repertoires
in the Former USSR." Comparative Politics 30, no. 4 (1998): 401-23. (or Beissinger, Nationalist
Mobilization, Ch. 6)
Varshney, Ashutosh. "Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond." World Politics 53, no. 3 (2001):
362-98.
Kaufman, Stuart J. "Symbolic Politics or Rational Choice? Testing Theories of Extreme Ethnic Violence."
International Security 30, no. 4 (2006): 45-86.
Recommended:
Brass, Paul. Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1997.
Gagnon, V. P. The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2004.
Gurr, Ted Robert. Peoples Versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century. Washington, DC: United
States Institute of Peace Press, 2000.
Hardin, Russell. One for All: The Logic of Group Conflict. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Horowitz, Donald L. The Deadly Ethnic Riot. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
Kaufman, Stuart J. Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2001.
King, Charles. Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2010.
Petersen, Roger D. Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century
Eastern Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Posen, Barry R. "The Security Dilemma and Ethnic Conflict." Survival 35, no. 1 (1993): 27-47.
Ross, Marc Howard. Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Saideman, Stephen M., and R. William Ayres. For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism, and War.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
Snyder, Jack L. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict. 1st ed. New York: W.
W. Norton, 2000.
Varshney, Ashutosh. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2002.
Varshney, Ashutosh. "Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Rationality." Perspectives on Politics 1, no. 01
(2003): 85-99.
Wilkinson, Steven. Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Week 9 (Oct 20): NO CLASS (INSTRUCTOR IN GERMANY)
Week 10 (Oct 27): Boundaries, Territory, and Partition
Required:
[D2L] O'Leary, Brendan. "The Elements of Right-Sizing and Right-Peopling the State." In Right-Sizing the
State: The Politics of Moving Borders, edited by Brendan O'Leary, Ian S. Lustick and Thomas
Callaghy, 15-73. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Kaufmann, Chaim. "Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars." International Security 20, no.
4 (1996): 136-75.
Ratner, Steven R. "Drawing a Better Line: Uti Possidetis and the Borders of New States." American
Journal of International Law 90, no. 4 (1996): 590-624.
Chapman, Thomas, and Philip G. Roeder. "Partition as a Solution to Wars of Nationalism: The
Importance of Institutions." American Political Science Review 101, no. 04 (2007): 677-91.
Sambanis, Nicholas, and Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl. "What's in a Line? Is Partition a Solution to Civil War?"
International Security 34, no. 2 (2009): 82-118.
Recommended:
Agnew, John A. Place and Politics in Modern Italy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Anderson, Malcolm. Frontiers: Territory and State Formation in the Modern World. Cambridge: Polity
Press, 1996.
Berdahl, Daphne. Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Donnan, Hastings, and Thomas M. Wilson. Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State. New York:
Berg, 1999.
Kaiser, Robert J. The Geography of Nationalism in Russia and the USSR. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1994.
Lustick, Ian S. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the
West Bank-Gaza. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Malkki, Liisa. "National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity
among Scholars and Refugees." Cultural Anthropology 7, no. 1 (1992): 24-44.
Miller, David, and Sohail H. Hashmi, eds. Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2001.
O'Leary, Brendan, Ian S. Lustick, and Thomas Callaghy, eds. Right-Sizing the State: The Politics of Moving
Borders. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Sambanis, Nicholas. "Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical
Literature." World Politics 52, no. 4 (2000): 437-83.
Toft, Monica Duffy. The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of
Territory. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Wilson, Thomas M., and Hastings Donnan, eds. Border Identities: Nation and State at International
Frontiers. Cambidge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Week 11 (Nov 3): Power Sharing and Accommodation
Required:
[D2L] Lijphart, Arend. Democracy in Plural Societies. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. (Ch. 2,
pp.25-52)
[D2L] Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. 2nd revised ed. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 2000. (Ch.s 15-16, pp.601-680)
[D2L] Rothchild, Donald, and Philip G. Roeder. "Power Sharing as an Impediment to Peace and
Democracy." In Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars, edited by Philip G.
Roeder and Donald Rothchild, 29-50. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Hale, Henry E. "Divided We Stand: Institutional Sources of Ethnofederal State Survival and Collapse."
World Politics 56, no. 2 (2004): 165-93.
[D2L] McGarry, John, and Brendan O'Leary. "Must Pluri-National Federations Fail?" Ethnopolitics 8, no. 1
(2009): 5-25.
[D2L] Suberu, Rotimi. "Federalism in Africa: The Nigerian Experience in Comparative Perspective."
Ethnopolitics 8, no. 1 (2009): 67-86.
Recommended:
Cornell, Svante E. "Autonomy as a Source of Conflict: Caucasian Conflicts in Theoretical Perspective."
World Politics 54, no. 2 (2002): 245-76.
Ethnopolitics, Volume 4, Issue 4, 2005. Special issue: The Ethnopolitics of Elections.
Horowitz, Donald. A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1991.
Leff, Carol Skalnik. "Democratization and Disintegration in Multinational States: The Breakup of the
Communist Federations." World Politics 51, no. 2 (1999): 205-35.
Lijphart, Arend. "Constitutional Design for Divided Societies." Journal of Democracy 15, no. 2 (2004): 96109.
Lustick, Ian S. "Stability in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism Versus Control." World Politics 31,
no. 3 (1979): 325-44.
Lustick, Ian S., Dan Miodownik, and Roy J. Eidelson. "Secessionism in Multicultural States: Does Sharing
Power Prevent or Encourage It?" American Political Science Review 98, no. 2 (2004): 209-29.
Norris, Pippa. Driving Democracy: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work? New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2008.
O'Leary, Brendan. "An Iron Law of Nationalism and Federation?: A (Neo-Diceyian) Theory of the
Necessity of a Federal Staatsvolk, and of Consociational Rescue." Nations and Nationalism 7, no.
3 (2001): 273-96.
Reilly, Benjamin. Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering for Conflict Management,
Theories of Institutional Design. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Smith, Graham, ed. Federalism: The Multiethnic Challenge. New York: Longman, 1995.
Stepan, Alfred C., Juan J. Linz, and Yogendra Yadav. Crafting State-Nations: India and Other
Multinational Democracies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Wolff, Stefan. "Complex Power-Sharing and the Centrality of Territorial Self-Governance in
Contemporary Conflict Settlements." Ethnopolitics 8, no. 1 (2009): 27-45.
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Week 12 (Nov 10): Gender
Required:
Žarkov, Dubravka. The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia. Durham
N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007.
Recommended:
Blom, Ida, Karen Hagemann, and Catherine Hall, eds. Gendered Nations: Nationalisms and Gender Order
in the Long Nineteenth Century. New York: Berg, 2000.
Cusack, Tricia. "Janus and Gender: Women and the Nation's Backward Look." Nations and Nationalism 6,
no. 4 (2000): 541-61.
Evangelista, Matthew. Gender, Nationalism, and War: Conflict on the Movie Screen. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Holmsten, Stephanie S., Robert G. Moser, and Mary C. Slosar. "Do Ethnic Parties Exclude Women?"
Comparative Political Studies 43, no. 10 (2010): 1179-201.
Htun, Mala. "Is Gender Like Ethnicity? The Political Representation of Identity Groups." Perspectives on
Politics 2, no. 03 (2004): 439-58.
Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem, eds. Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms,
Transnational Feminisms, and the State. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1999.
Kondo, Dorinne K. Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Mayer, Tamar, ed. Gender Ironies of Nationalism: Sexing the Nation. New York: Routledge, 2000.
McClintock, Anne, Aamir Mufti, and Ella Shohat, eds. Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and
Postcolonial Perspectives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Nagel, Joane. "Masculinity and Nationalism: Gender and Sexuality in the Making of Nations." Ethnic and
Racial Studies 21, no. 2 (1998): 242-69.
Ranchod-Nilsson, Sita, and Mary Ann Tétreault, eds. Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the
Nation? New York: Routledge, 2000.
Walby, Sylvia. "Gender, Nations and States in a Global Era." Nations and Nationalism 6, no. 4 (2000):
523-40.
Yuval-Davis, Nira. Gender & Nation. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1997.
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Week 13 (Nov 17): Globalization
Comaroff, John L., and Jean Comaroff. Ethnicity, Inc. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Week 14 (Nov 24): THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Week 15 (Dec 1): Draft Research Presentations and Discussion
Week 16 (Dec 8): Draft Research Presentations and Conclusion
FINAL PAPERS DUE: DECEMBER 15
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