Eric Kaufmann

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1. Based on lectures from my courses in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict and the Politics of Population Change in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.
2. If you can attend lectures and seminars twice a week for two years (or four times a week for one year) in London (Bloomsbury WC1), you can take this course live. It runs from 6-8 pm so you can easily attend after work.
3. The course forms part of the Masters programme in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict and Masters programme in the Politics of Population, Migration and Ecology. It is also part of the Undergraduate Politics programme. Both are based in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London.

1. Nationalism and Ethnoreligious Conflict Lecture Series:
4. Definitions and Theoretical Overview
5. The Development of the State
6. The Origin of Ethnic Groups
7. Theories of Nationalism
8. State Nationalism, Nation-Building and Commemoration
9. Multi-Ethnic States: Multi-Ethnic Nations and Multi-National States
10. Ethnic Nationalism
11. National Identity: Ethnic or Civic?
12. When Does Nationalism Become Secessionist?: Secession and Irridentism
13. Ethnic Violence and Genocide
14. Microfoundations of Civil War: Outbidding, Spoilers, Militias
15. Secularisation and Religious Fundamentalism
16. Religion and Nationalism
17. Terrorism, Lobbying and Multiculturalism: Diasporas in International Politics 
18. Case Study: Britishness and Multiculturalism
19. Nationalism and European Unity
20. Dominant Ethnicity and the Rise of the Far Right

1. Politics of Population Change Lecture Series:

4. 1. Demography, Migration and Power: Concepts and Trends

   2. Youth Bulges and Violent Conflict 

   3. Climate Change, Environment and Conflict

   4.Population Aging, World Population Shifts and the Global Balance of Power 

   5.The Piketty Thesis: Population Stagnation and the Politics of Inequality

   6. Demographic and Democratic Transitions 

   7. Nationalism and Demographic Engineering

   8. Demography and Ethnic Conflict 

   9. Dominant Ethnicity and the ‘Ethnic-Civic’ Typology of National Identity

   10.‘The Rest Against the West?’: the Politics of Illegal Migration Flows and Border Control

   11. Immigration and the Rise of the Far Right in Europe 

   12. ‘White Flight’, Integration and UKIP: Hostility to Immigration in the UK 

   13. ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?’: The Political Demography of Fundamentalism 

   14. Terrorism, Lobbying and Multiculturalism: Diasporas in International Politics 

1. Political Transformations Lecture Series:
3. Liberalisation and Cosmopolitanism in the West, 1750-1945
4. Culture Shift: Liberal Attitude Change in the Post-Industrial West
5. Individualism, Modernism and Lifestyle Differentiation
6. The Decline of Violence in Human History
7. Ethnic Groups and the Rise of Nations
8. Secularisation and Religious Revival: Islam, Europe and the USA
9. The World Population Revolution
10. Immigration and the Rise of the Far Right in Europe
11. Our Posthuman Future?: Biology and Politics