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Upcoming and Current:

• Upcoming Book: Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (London: Profile Books, 2010)

• 'The Return of Economic Nationalism’, Providence Journal, June 20, 2009

• 'The Changing Face of Israel' (co-authored with R. Cincotta), Foreign Policy (web exclusive), June 2009

• 'The Global War for Souls', a review of John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, 'God is Back', Prospect, June 2009

• ‘The Demography of Religious Radicalism’, for panel on ‘Demography and Security: The Politics of Population Change’, American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009

• ‘The Next American Voter: The Political Demography of American Partisanship’, American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 3-6, 2009

Notable Past Items:

• ‘The Role of Islam in the Re-Sacralization of Europe’, for conference on ‘The Political Future of Muslim Communities in Western Europe: Implications for Western European States in 2030’, National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, May 29, 2009, Washington, DC

• Conference: 'Demography and Security: the Politics of Population Change', Weatherhead Center, Harvard, organized by Monica Toft, Jack Goldstone and myself, May 7-8, 2009

• 'From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing Ulster, 1969-2007’, Boston College, April 14, 2009

• My Book, The Orange Order, will appear in paperback, April 2009

• ‘The Future of American Religion to 2050’, Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture (ASREC) conference, Crystal City, VA, April 5, 2009

• 'The Role of the Second Demographic Transition in Secularism's Evolutionary Demise', Evolution, Cognition, and Culture seminar series, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 24, 2009

• 'Islamism, Religiosity and Fertility in the Muslim World' and 'Demographic Radicalization?: The Religiosity-Fertility Nexus and Politics', International Studies Association, New York, February 18, 2009 [links are to papers]

• 'Religious Fundamentalism as the End of History?: The Political Demography of the Abrahamic Faiths’, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, International Security Program Seminar, February 5, 2009    

• 9 February 2009 – Invited panelist, ‘Inter-Ethnic Relations in Quebec: The ‘Accommodations Crisis’ and The Bouchard-Taylor Report’, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

• Article on the legacy of the late Samuel Huntington, ‘The Meaning of Huntington’, in Prospect magazine, February 2009

• 28 January 2009 – ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth’, (paper), Department of History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC   [powerpoint here]                                                                                                                           

• My research mentioned in Anthony Gottlieb's article, 'Faith Equals Fertility', Intelligent Life (Economist), Winter 2008

• ‘Peaceful Xenophobes’, Prospect, November 2008

• ‘Europe's Coming Demographic Revolution’, NACS Magazine, October 2008

• 12 December 2008 – ‘Demographic Radicalization in the Middle East and Europe?’, for conference on ‘Global religious trends:  risks opportunities for the United States’, National Intelligence Council and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC

• 2008-9 Fellow, Religion in International Affairs/International Security Program, Belfer Center, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• Commentary on my November 2006 Prospect/Newsweek article, 'Breeding for God' at Richard Dawkins.net

• Appearance at Listowel Writers' Week, Co. Kerry, 30 May 2008 to speak about Orange Order book

• Winner of Political Studies Association 2008 Richard Rose Prize: 'awarded to a younger scholar who has made a distinctive contribution to the study of British politics (including Northern Ireland), through the publication of books and articles'

• 'Eurabia?: the Foreign Policy Implications of West Europe's Religious Composition in 2025 and Beyond', for panel on "The Global Demographic Landscape in 2025: Implications for International Relations Analysis", International Studies Association, San Francisco paper

• 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:Demography, Religion and Radicalization', for "Policing, Justice and Security in a Diverse Canada: Building an Empirical Evidence Base", Government of Canada, February 25 & 26, 2008 Hampton Inn Ottawa & Conference Centre 

• Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State/National Intelligence Council, 'National Intelligence Council and Intelligence Community Study Group on the Middle East 2025', Meridian International Center, Washington, February 21-22, 2008

• Appearance on Press TV Live Discussion: The Arab World: Is a Western Style Democracy Viable?

• Presented at the Fulbright Debate on Multiculturalism, 15 January, London

• 'From Loyalty to Resistance: The Orange Order in a Changing Ulster, 1969-2007’, seminar at Queen's University Belfast, 13 December, 4pm, Institute of Irish Studies

•         Appearance at Belfast Literary Festival, seminar on Unionism, with Steve Bruce and Paul Bew, chaired by William Crawley, BBC Northern Ireland, 25 October 2007, Elmwood Hall, Belfast

• " 'God Returns to Europe', review of God's Continent, by Philip Jenkins, Prospect, November 2007

•  " 'Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth', Jewish Quarterly, Autumn 2007

•  " 'Parades ... could there soon be a deal?', Belfast Telegraph, 11 July 2007

• 'Sacralisation by Stealth', pamphlet and seminar for Institute of Jewish Policy Research (JPR), July 4, 2007

• Review of Pierre Manent's In Defense of the Nation-State (2006) in Prospect, June 2007 issue

• New books just published in May 2007: 

  1) The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History, (Oxford University Press 2007)  

  ***Serialised in Belfast News Letter, 21 to 26 May 2007

  2) with Henry Patterson: The Decline of the Loyal Family: Unionism and Orangeism in Northern Ireland - co-authored book with Professor Henry Patterson (U. Ulster). (Manchester University Press 2007)

   

• See my comments on Jack Goldstone's paper, 'Flash Points and Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2005-2025' live in a seminar on political demography at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Feb 27, 2007. See webcast

• My Prospect article was printed in abridged form as 'Faith's Comeback' in the November 7-13 issue of Newsweek International edition

• My article, 'Breeding for God' was published in the November 2006 issue of Prospect as the cover story

• I discussed his latest research on the 'End of Secularisation in Europe' on BBC Radio 4's 'Thinking Allowed' Programme at 4pm on Wednesday, 4 October. To hear the programme live, click on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20061004.shtml  or download directly here.

Main Research Interests:

• Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Religiosity, Fertility and Politics

• The Political Demography of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Religion

• Dominant Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

• The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America: the Decline of Dominant Ethnicity in the United States

• Orangeism

• Canadian Identity

• Comparative Nationalism and Ethnicity

• Cosmopolitanism and Universalism

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