Reading List
1. Defining Ethnic Group and Nation
Required:
(Ethnic Groups)
Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations (New York: Elsevier, 1976), pp. 6-9 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]
Smith, A.D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds), Ethnicity (Oxford: OUP), pp. 17-31 - 305.8 ETH
(Nations & Nationalism)
Smith, Anthony D. &
Hutchinson, J. (eds) 1994. Nationalism (Oxford:
OUP), pp. 15-46 - 320.54
NAT
Podcast (moderately useful):
Recommended:
*Smith, Anthony D. 1991. National Identity (London: Penguin 1991), pp. 8-18 - slc 320.54 SMI [PC]
*Smith, Anthony. 1986. The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 21-31 - RAA [Smi]
Eriksen, Thomas H. 1993. Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (London: Pluto Press), ch.1 - 305.8 ERI
*Weber, Max. 1978. Economy and Society: an outline of interpretive sociology (Berkeley : University of California Press), pp. 40-43, 341-48, 387-98, 922-26 - KA [Web]
Defining
Nations & Nationalism
*Connor, W. 1994. 'A nation is a nation, is a state…' in Connor, Ethno-nationalism: The Quest for Understanding (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), ch.4 - 323.11 CON
*Anderson, B. 1983. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso), ch.1 - 320.54 AND
Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic
Relations (New York: Elsevier), ch.7
- slc
305.8 FRA [PC]
Readers
and Reference Books:
Leoussi, Athena and Anthony D. Smith (eds). 2001. Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (Oxford: Transaction Books) - [NIS]
Motyl, A. (ed.). 2001. Encyclopedia of Nationalism (San Diego: Academic Press) - [NIS]
Leoussi, Athena and Steven Grosby (eds). 2003. Nationality and Nationalism (London: I.B. Tauris) - [NIS]
Hutchinson, J. and M. Guibernau. 2001. Understanding Nationalism (Cambridge: Polity) - 320.54 UND
Kellas, J. 1998. The Politics of Nationalism and Ethnicity (Basingstoke: Macmillan) - 320.54 KEL
Suny, R. and G. Eley. 1996. Becoming National: a reader (Oxford: OUP) - 320.54 BEC
Jenkins, R. 1997. Rethinking Ethnicity: arguments and explorations (London: Sage) - 305.8 JEN
Essay Question
How do ethnic groups differ from nations, and nations from states?
2. The Development of the State
Required:
*Poggi, R.G. 1978. The Development of the
Modern State (London: Hutchinson, 1978)
- RAA [Pog]
Recommended:
*S. D.
Krasner. 1988. ‘Sovereignty - An Institutional Perspective’
Comparative Political Studies
*Tilly
*Anderson, Perry. 1979.
Lineages of the Absolutist State, (London and New York: Verso)
-
RBF [And]
*Poggi
D. Held et
al (eds.). 1983. States and Societies
(
Flora
Tilly
R.
Mackenney.1989. The City-State (
P. Dollinger.
1970. The German Hansa (
J. Miller
(ed.). 1990. Absolutism in 17th Century
L. Krader.
1968. The Formation of the State (
M. Mann. 1986. The Sources of Social Power Vol. I : A History of Power from the
Beginning to AD 1760 (
G. Poggi.
1990. The State
J.A. Hall (eds).
1986. States in History (
J.A. Hall
and J. Ikenberry. 1986. The State (
Q. Skinner. 1989. ‘The State’
M. S.
Anderson. 1993. The Rise of Modern
Diplomacy 1415-1919 (
Parodi
Van Creveld.
1999. The Rise and Decline of the State (
*Torpey
Essay Question
What were the main dynamics driving the development of the modern state?
3. The Origin of Ethnic Groups
Required:
Case: The English from a historicist and instrumentalist perspective
*Hastings
vs.
*Breuilly
Recommended:
Smith &
Hutchinson (eds)
pp. 120-132
(Historical/Perennialist) -
SLC 305.8 ETH
Theoretical Perspectives
Sollors
*Zimmer
Instrumentalism
Peel
Suny
Fearon
Laitin
Fearon
Hitt, J. 'The Newest Indians', New York
Times, Aug 21, 2005 - available
electronically
Suny
Brass
Laitin
Slezkine
Whitmeyer
*Armstrong
*Smith
Grosby
Heather
Heather
Grosby
Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of
Human Societies. (New York; London: W.W. Norton & Co.), see chapter on the
formation of tribes in New Guinea
*Roosens
*Smith
Hastings
Reynolds
Mendels
Patricia
McCrone. 1986. 'The tribe and the state
Primordialism
*Van den Berghe, Pierre 1978. 'Race and Ethnicity: a sociobiological approach,' Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 1 no. 4, 1978, pp. 401-411. (and critique by V. Reynolds (1980) in Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 3, no.3, pp. 303-15) - CE Library - I33 & Reference
Salter, F. 2001. "A Defense and an Extension of Pierre Van den Berghe's Theory of Ethnic Nepotism", in P. James and D. Goetzee (eds.), Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict (Westport, CT: Praeger), pp. 39-70 - [NIS]
Cavalli-Sforza, L. L. 1997. 'Genes, Peoples and Languages,' Proceeds of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 94, pp. 7719–7724, July (Colloquium Paper) – [JNIS]
Essay Question
How
did ethnic groups originate? What maintains them?
Required:
Podcasts (useful):
My
interview with John Hutchinson, LSE, 2006
Don Doyle's Interview with John Breuilly, LSE, 2006 on H-Nationalism (transcript only, no audio)
Rogers Brubaker - Nationalist politics and everyday ethnicity in a Transylvanian town
Recommended:
*Ozkirimli, Umut. 2010. Theories of Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (Basingstoke: Macmillan), chs. 1-5 - 320.54 OZK
*Gellner, Ernest 1983. Nations and Nationalism, (Oxford: Blackwell 1983) chs. 1-5, spe. 2,3 - RAV [Gel]
*Smith, Anthony D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds) 1994. Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 34-35, 55-69, 76-82, 89-95, 103-112 - 320.54 NAT
*Breuilly, J. 1993. Nationalism and the State, (Manchester: Manchester University Press) chs. 1-2 - 320.54 BRE
*Anderson, Benedict. [1983] 1991. Imagined Communities,( London: Verso) chs. 1-3 - 320.54 AND
*Hobsbawm, Eric J. 1993. (1990) Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) ch. 3 - RAV [Hob] [PC]
Smith, Anthony. 1998. Nationalism and Modernism, (London & New York: Routledge) ch 4 – 320.5401 SMI
Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations, (New York: Elsevier) chs. 6, 7 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]
Giddens, A. 1985. The Nation-State and Violence, (Cambridge: Polity Press [1985] 1996) ch. 8, and pp. 116-21 - [NIS]
*Smith, A.D. and John Hutchinson (eds). 1994. Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 196-240 - 320.54 NAT
Spencer, P. and H. Wollmann. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage), ch. 2 - 320.54 SPE
*Smith, A.D. and Ernest Gellner. 1995. 'Gellner on Nationalism,' Prospect, December 1995 – [JNIS]
Smith A.D. 1995. 'Gastronomy or Geology? The Role of Nationalism in the Reconstruction of Nations,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-23- INGENTA
*Gorski, Philip S. 2000. 'The Mosaic Moment: an Early Modernist Critique of Modernist Theories of Nationalism,' American Journal of Sociology, vol. 105, no. 5, pp. 1428-1468 - JSTOR
*Uzelac, G. and A. Ichijo (eds). 2005. When is the Nation?: The Debate (London: Routledge, forthcoming) – [NIS]
Guibernau, M. and J. Hutchinson (eds). 2004. History and National Destiny: Ethnosymbolism and Its Critics (Oxford: Blackwell) – [NIS]
Zimmer, O. and Len Scales (eds). 2005. Power and the Nation in History (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming), esp. introduction – [NIS]
Essay Question
What are the key contested issues in nationalism theory? Discuss with reference to major schools of thought.
5. State Nationalism
Required:
Recommended:
*Greenfeld
*Weber
*Brubaker
*Mosse
Nora
Mosse
Neuberger
Spillman
*Colley
*Bodnar
Bruckmüller
Birch
O’Leary
Essay Question
How do states attempt to instil
state-nationalism in their populations?
6. Multi-Ethnic Nations and Multi-National States
Required:
Connor, Walker. 1994. 'A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an Ethnic Group, is a ...,' in John Hutchinson and Anthony D. Smith (eds.), Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 36-45 - 320.54 NAT
Recommended:
*Kymlicka, W. 1995. Multicultural Citizenship, (Oxford: Oxford University Press) ch.2 - 323.11 KYM
*Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations, (New York: Elsevier) pp. 19-24 (Tswana), ch 6, ch 8 (Europe), chs 17-18 (USA) - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]
Kitromilides, P. 1996. 'Orthodoxy and Nationalism,' in Smith, A.D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds), Ethnicity (Oxford: OUP), pp. 202-8 - 305.8 ETH
*Zimmer, Oliver. 2003. Nationalism in Europe: 1890-1940 (London: Palgrave/Macmillan), chs 3 and 4 - 320.54094 ZIM [PC]
Krejci, J. and Velimsky, V. 1996. 'Ethnic and Political Nations in Europe,' in Smith, A.D. & Hutchinson, J. (eds), Ethnicity (Oxford: OUP), pp. 209-21 - 305.8 ETH
Gagnon, Alain-G. and M. Guibernau (eds). 2003. The conditions of diversity in multinational democracies (Montreal : Institute for Research on Public Policy) - [NIS]
Essay Question
Why are nearly all states multi-ethnic?
7. Ethnic Nationalism and Ethnic Nations
Required:
Smith, Anthony and John
Hutchinson (eds), Nationalism (Oxford:
OUP), pp. 160-183 - 320.54
NAT
Podcast (quite useful): My interview with John Hutchinson, LSE, 2006. transcript
Recommended:
*Smith
*Smith
*Figes,
Orlando. 2001. 'What is
Russia?,' Prospect, January, pp. 28-32
– [JNIS]
Lind, Michael. 2000. 'National Good,' Prospect, October, pp. 44-49 – [JNIS]
*Hroch
*Hutchinson
Pirie
Nolte, Claire. 2002. The Sokol in
the Czech Lands to 1914: Training for the
Nation
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan)
*Zimmer
Schopflin
Umbach, M. 2006. 'Germany', in Hewitson, Mark and
Timothy Baycroft (eds.). 2004. Nationalism in Europe 1789-1914: Civic and
Ethnic Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press) - [NIS]
Keating
*Brubaker
Beyen
*Brown
Kissane
Phadnis
Doak
Connor
Cultural
Revival: Art
*Vaughan
Poulson
*Morowitz
*Hassan
Kammen
Kendall
Bahrani
Kohl
Jones
*Zerubavel
Takei
Schwartz
*Ben Yehuda
Essay Question
Provide two examples of ethnic nationalism and
explain why each deserves to be categorized as an ethnic nationalist movement.
8.
National Identity: Ethnic or Civic?
Required:
Recommended:
*Kohn
*Plamenatz
*Brubaker
*Yack
Alter
Shulman
Nielsen
Hewitson
Roshwald,
Aviel. 2006. The Endurance of Nationalism:
Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press),
ch. 5
Meadwell, H. 1988. 'Cultural and Instrumental Approaches to Ethnic Nationalism,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol.12. - CE Library - I33 & Reference
*Hjerm
Ignatieff
Smith
Wiborg
Behr
Bauman
Schöpflin, George. 2000. Nations, identity, power : the new politics of Europe (London: Hurst) - 320.54094 SCH
Kaufmann
Kaufmann
Essay Question
'All national identities have ethnic and civic elements'. Do you agree?
9. The
Ethics of Nationalism: Citizenship
Required:
Recommended:
*Parekh
*Kukathas
*McKim
Seglow
*Kymlicka
*Kymlicka
Barry
*Habermas
*Tamir
Miller, D. 2005. 'Crooked Timber or Bent Twig?: Isaiah Berlin's Nationalism', Political Studies, pp. 100-123 -
Mason
*Miller
Frost, Catherine. 2006. Morality and Nationalism (London: Routledge)
Fish
*Walzer
Jones
Essay
Question
What are the
differences between liberal nationalists and liberal multiculturalists?
10. Britishness, Englishness and the UK Multiculturalism Debate
Required:
Bernard Crick v Kenan Malik: 'What Should
Integration Mean in Britain Today?' JCWI Bulletin
Trevor Phillips discusses community cohesion
The New Politics of Identity - David Goodhart, Bhikhu Parekh, John Keane
Recommended:
Pro-Multiculturalism
Modood
Parekh, Bhikhu. 2000. The
Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain: the report of the Commission on the Future of
Multi-Ethnic Britain (London: Profile Books) - Introduction &
Conclusions - [PC]
Modood, T. 2006. Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (University of Minnesota Press & Edinburgh University Press)
Modood, T. 2003. 'Muslims and the Politics of Difference', Political Quarterly, vol. 74 (1), pp. 100-115.
al-Maktabi. 2005. 'A letter to Trevor Phillips, Chair of the CRE', Salaam < http://www.salaam.co.uk/maktabi/deartrevor.html>
Hansen, Randall. 2000. Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain: the institutional origins of a multicultural nation (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Pilkington, Andrew. 2002. Racial Disadvantage and Ethnic Diversity in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan)
Anti-Multiculturalism:
Reaction to
Parekh: 'No to rethink on
British identity'
Race body snubs 'un-British' work: The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) is blocking grants to ethnic minority projects that fail to promote "Britishness" and integration,' BBC Saturday, 10 April, 2005 <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3615379.stm>
Goodhart
Wolfe, Alan and Jytte Klausen. 2000. 'Other People,' Prospect, December, pp. 28-33 - [PC]
Bhatt, Ashish. 2000. 'Race and Reality,' Prospect, May, pp. 65-66 - [PC]
Phillips, Trevor. 2005. ‘Multiculturalism’s legacy is “have a nice day” racism’, Guardian, 28.5.
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. 2000. After Multiculturalism (London: The Foreign Policy Centre)
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin. 1999. True Colours: Public Attitudes To Multiculturalism and The Role of Government (London: Institute for Public Policy Research)
Britishness & Englishness
'Britain Rediscovered': Roundtable on Britishness with Gordon Brown, Prospect, April 2006 - Lexis-Nexis
Colley, Linda. 1992. Britons. Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press)
'Britain Rediscovered': Roundtable on Britishness with Gordon Brown, Prospect, April 2006
Gilroy, Paul. 2005. After Empire: melancholia or convivial culture? (London; New York: Routledge)
Colls, R. 2005. Identity of England (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
Hart, C. (ed). 2003. Approaches to Englishness: Past, Present and Future (U.Central England Health & Social Care Research Centre)
Essay Question
What are the key axes of debate between proponents of Multiculturalism and proponents of integration in Britain today?
Part II
11. Secession and Self-Determination
Required:
Horowitz, D. 1994. 'The Logic of Secessions,' in Smith, Anthony and John Hutchinson (eds), Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 261-68 - 320.54 NAT
Mayall, J. 1994. 'Irredentist and Secessionist Challenges,' in Smith, Anthony and John Hutchinson (eds), Nationalism (Oxford: OUP), pp. 269-79 - 320.54 NAT
Wiberg, Hakan. 1996. 'Self-Determination as an International Issue,' in Smith, Anthony and John Hutchinson (eds), Ethnicity (reader), pp. 321-25 - 305.8 ETH
Podcasts (somewhat useful):
Recommended:
*Horowitz, Donald L. 1985 Ethnic Groups in Conflict, (Berkeley: University of California Press) ch. 6 - 305.8 HOR – [PC]
*Smith, Anthony D. 1991 National Identity (London: Penguin 1991) ch. 6: Separatism and multi-nationalism, pp. 123-42 - slc 320.54 SMI [PC]
*Francis, E.K. 1976. Interethnic Relations, (New York, NY: Elsevier Scientific) pp. 107-15 - slc 305.8 FRA [PC]
Cases of Secessionist and Irridentist Mobilisation
Glenny, Misha. 1996. The Fall of Yugoslavia (London: Penguin) - 949.703 GLE
Rothchild, Donald. 1995. 'Ethnic Bargaining and State Breakdown in Africa,' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 1, no. 1 (1995): 54-72. - Reference only
Conversi, Daniele. 1997. The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization (London: Hurst) - 320.540946 CON
Self-Determination Norms in International Law & Political Theory
*Jackson-Preece, J. 1997. 'National Minority Rights vs. State Sovereignty: Changing Norms in International Relations?,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 3, part 3 - INGENTA
*Mayall, J. 1991. 'Non-Intervention, Self-Determination and the 'New World Order',' International Affairs, (July 1991) – JSTOR
Horowitz, Donald L. 1997. 'Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law,' in Ian Shapiro and Will Kymlicka (eds.), Ethnicity and Group Rights (New York: New York University Press) - 305.8 ETH
Buchanan, Allen. 1991. Secession. The Morality of Political Divorce from Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (Boulder, CO: Westview Press) – [NIS]
Essay Question
What are the links between nationalism and secession?
12.
Nationalism
Required:
Podcasts (moderately useful): Is Democracy Possible in Fragile States? - Professors Teddy Brett, Paul Collier and James Robinson, LSE 2010
Recommended:
*Spencer
*Horowitz
*Snyder
*Wimmer
*Norris
Mozaffar
*Conversi
*
Mann, M.
2004. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press) - [NIS] -
see also symposium on the
book in volume 4, 2006 of Political Studies Review
Rothschild, Joseph, Ethnopolitics: a Conceptual Framework (New York: Columbia University Press, 1981) – [NIS]
Esman, Milton J. 1994. Ethnic Politics (Ithaca: Cornell University Press) – [NIS]
Glickman,
Harvey (ed.). 1995. Ethnic Conflict and Democratisation in Africa
(Atlanta, GA: African Studies Association Press) – [NIS]
Ottaway, M. 1994. Democratization and ethnic nationalism: African and Eastern European experiences (Overseas Development Council) – [NIS]
Harris,
Erika. 2002. Nationalism and Democratisation: the politics of Slovakia and Slovenia (Aldershot and
Burlington, VT: Ashgate) – [NIS]
Tismaneanu, V. 1998. Fantasies of salvation: Democracy, nationalism and myth in post-communist Europe (Princeton ; Chichester : Princeton University Press). – [NIS]
MacFarlane, S. 1997. 'Democratization, nationalism and regional security in the Southern Caucasus,' Government and Opposition Vol. 32 (3): 399-420 - Reference only
Matic, D. 1999. 'Understanding the Role of Nationalism in New Democracies,' Collegium Antropologicum, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 231-24 – [JNIS]
Keller
Calhoun C. 1993. 'Nationalism And Civil-Society - Democracy
Denitch
Zuo
Pfaff
Hansen
Corbridge S
and Harriss J. 2000. Reinventing
Rizman
*Oommen, T. K. 1994. ' Religious Nationalism and Democratic Polity - The Indian Case,' Sociology of Religion, Vol. 55, No. 4, pp. 455-472 - G6(Vernon)
*Dzur, A.W. 2002. 'Nationalism, liberalism, and democracy,' Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 191-211 – [JNIS]
Berezin, M. 1999. 'Democracy and its others in a global polity - Introduction,' International Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 227-243 – [JNIS]
Assess the thesis that democatisation leads to
increased ethnic conflict.
13. Nationalism and War: When Does Nationalism Turn Violent?
Required:
Intro, Hoeffler, Anke and William Zartman, debate the theme of 'Greed and Grievance in Civil War,' Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, pp. 271-285, 298-307
P
Recommended:
*Wolff, S. and Karl Cordell. 2006. Ethnic Conflict (Cambridge: Polity)
Mann, M. 2004. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) - [NIS] - see also symposium on the book in volume 4, 2006 of Political Studies Review
*Horowitz, Donald L. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press), chs. 11-12 - 305.8 HOR – [PC]
Gurr, Ted Robert and Anne Pitsch. 2003. "Ethnopolitical Conflict and Separatist Violence," in Wilhelm Heitmeyer and John Hagan (eds.), The International Handbook of Violence Research (Dordrecht, London: Kluwer) – [JNIS]
*Horowitz, D. 2001. The Deadly Ethnic Riot (Berkeley: University of California Press), esp. ch. 13 - [PC]
Newman, Saul and Piroth, Scott. 1996. "Terror and Tolerance: The Use of Ballots, Bombs and Bullets by Ethnoregional Movements in Advanced Industrial Democracies." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 2, no. 3: 381-414. - Reference only
Hechter, Michael. 1995. 'Explaining nationalist violence,' Nations and Nationalism, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 53-68- INGENTA
Conversi, Daniele. 1997. The Basques, the Catalans, and Spain: Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization. (London: Hurst), ch. 9 - 320.540946 CON
*Cigar, N. 1995. Genocide in Bosnia: the policy of "ethnic cleansing" (College Station: Texas A & M University Press) – [NIS]
American Psychological Association), pp. 71-81 - [PC]
Kiernan, B. (2001). ‘The ethnic element in the Cambodian genocide,’ in D. Chirot & M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.), Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association) pp. 83-91 - [PC]
Prunier, G. (2001). ‘Genocide in Rwanda,’ in D. Chirot & M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.), Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association) pp. 109-116 - [PC]
Birch, Julian. 1995. "Ethnic Cleansing in the Caucasus." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 1, no. 4: 90-107 - Reference only
Essay Question
'Ethnic violence is driven by material factors.' Do you agree?
14. 'The View from Ground Level' - Microfoundations of Civil War: Outbidding, Spoilers, Militias
Required:
Podcasts (useful):
Recommended:
Microfoundations of Civil War (Rational Choice Perspectives)
Horowitz, D. L. (1985). Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, University of California Press., chs. 8 and 12.
Bakke, Kristin. 2009. ' Shirts Today, Skins Tomorrow: The Effects of Fragmentation on Civil War Processes and Outcomes', ISA conference paper (forthcoming in Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2012)
*Weinstein, Jeremy. 2007. Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence. New York: Cambridge University Press.
*Collier, P. and A. Hoeffler (2004). "Greed and grievance in civil war." Oxford Economic Papers-New Series 56(4): 563-595.
*Kalyvas, Stathis N. 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Kaufman, Stuart J. 2006. 'Symbolic Politics or Rational Choice? Testing Theories of Extreme Ethnic Violence.' International Security, Volume 30, Number 4, Spring 2006, pp. 45-86 Kaufmann C. 1996. “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars.” International Security 20 (4): 136–7.
Stathis N. Kalyvas and Matthew Adam Kocher. 2007. Ethnic Cleavages and Irregular
War: Iraq and Vietnam. Politics and Society, 35:2, 183-223.
Nicolas Sambanis. 2001. “Do Ethnic and Nonethnic Civil Wars Have the Same
Causes?” Journal of Conflict Resolution. 45(4): 259-82.
Shapiro, Jacob. 2007. “Terrorist Organizations’ Vulnerabilities and Inefficiencies: A Rational Choice Perspective,” in Jeanne Giraldo and Harold Trinkunas (eds.), Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective, Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Ethnic Outbidding and Spoilers (non-RCT pespectives):
*Stuart J. Kaufman, Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War (New York: Cornell University Press, 2001). esp. Chapters 1 and 2.
*Stephen Stedman, “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” International Security 22 (2) (Autumn 1997): 5-53.
*Mitchell, P, Evans, G and B. O'Leary. 2009. 'Extremist Outbidding in Ethnic Party Systems is Not Inevitable: Tribune Parties in Northern Ireland', Political Studies, 57, 2, pp 397-421
*Toft, Monica Duffy. 2006. “Indivisible Territory, Geographic Concentration, and Ethnic War.” Security Studies 12 (2): 82-119.
Greenhill, Kelly M., and Solomon Major. 2007. “The Perils of Profiling: Civil War Spoilers and the Collapse of Intrastate Peace Accords.” International Security 31 (3): 7-40.
Bloom, M. 2004. 'Palestinian suicide bombing: public support, market share, and outbidding, Political Science Quarterly, vol 119,: 1, pp. 61-88
Essay Question
'Ethnic identity is irrelevant when it comes to explaining civil violence on the ground'. Do you agree?
15. Ethnic Conflict Regulation II: Consociationalism
and Electoral Engineering
Podcasts (generally useful)
Electoral systems and consociationalism
N. Ireland, Good Friday and power sharing
Ten Years After the Good Friday Agreement (B. O'Leary and others)
Ottoman Millet system, religion and power sharing
Cyprus: the Settlement Process, Mehmet Ali Talat
O'Leary, B. How to Get out of Iraq with Integrity
Recommended:
*McGarry,
John and Brendan O'Leary. 2006. 'Consociational Theory, Northern Ireland's
Conflict, and its Agreement 2. What Critics of Consociation Can Learn from
Northern Ireland', Government and Opposition, Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 249-277
*Horowitz, Donald L. 1985 Ethnic Groups in Conflict, ch. 7: Ethnic Parties and Party Systems, pp. 291-364; and ch. 14: Ethnic Policy: The Constraints and the Opportunities, pp. 563-76 - 305.8 HOR – [PC]
*Lijphart, A. (1969). 'Consociational democracy,' World Politics, Vol. 21, pp. 207-225 - JSTOR
*Lustick, I. S. (1997). 'Lijphart, Lakatos, and Consociationalism,' World Politics, Vol. 50, pp. 88-117 - JSTOR
Bogaards, M. 2003. ‘Electoral Choices for Divided Societies: Multi-Ethnic Parties and Constituency Pooling in Africa’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 41(3), pp.59-80 – Reference only
Dixon, P. 2003. 'Con-Sociationalism: All Things to All People,' working paper – [JNIS]
B. O’Leary. 1997. ‘The
Conservative Stewardship of Northern Ireland, 1979-97: Sound-bottomed
Contradictions or Slow Learning’, Political Studies, vol. XLV -
INGENTA
Wantchekon
Steiner, Jurg. 1990. 'Power-Sharing: Another Swiss 'Export Product'?' in
Joseph V. Montville (ed.) Conflict
and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies. (Lexington,
MA: Lexington Books),
pp. 107-114 – [O/O]
*Bogaards, M. 1998. ‘The Favorable Factors for Consociational Democracy: A Review’, European Journal of Political Research, 33(4), pp.475-496 – Reference only
Noel, S.J.R. 1993. 'Canadian Responses to Ethnic Conflict: consociationalism, federalism and control,' in O'Leary, B & John McGarry (eds). 1993. The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation (New York & London: Routledge), pp. 41-61 - slc KDJ [Mac] [PC]
Mauzy, Diane. 1993. 'Malay Political Hegemony and "coercive consociationalism" ' in O'Leary, B & John McGarry (eds). 1993. The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation, (New York & London: Routledge) pp. 106-127 - slc KDJ [Mac] [PC]
Covell, Maureen. 1993. 'Belgium: the variability of ethnic relations,' in O'Leary, B. & John McGarry (eds). 1993. The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation (New York & London: Routledge) pp. 275-95 - slc KDJ [Mac] [PC]
Njoku,
Raphael Chijioke. "Consociationalism:
Its Relevance for Nigeria." Nationalism & Ethnic Politics
5, no. 2 (1999), pp. 1-35- Reference only
Ejobowah, John Boye. 2000. 'Political Recognition of Ethnic Pluralism: Lessons from Nigeria.' Nationalism & Ethnic Politics 6, no. 3 (2000), pp. 1-18 - Reference only
Dixon,
Paul. 1997. 'Consociationalism and the
Northern Ireland Peace Process: The Glass Half Full or Half Empty.', Nationalism
and Ethnic Politics Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 20-36 - Reference
only
Essay
Question
· What is the best approach for managing ethno-national conflict in divided societies?
16. Majority Ethnic Groups and the Majority Nationalism of the Far Right
Required:
*Overview: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/europe/2000/far_right/
*Betz, H. and S. Immerfall. 1998. The New Politics of the Right: neo-Populist parties and movements in established democracies (New York: St. Martin's) – [NIS]
*Hainsworth, P. (ed). 2000. The Politics of the Extreme Right (London and New York: Pinter) – [NIS]
Kitschelt, Herbert. 1996. The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press) - 324.24038 KIT [PC]
*Grunberg, G. and E. Schweisguth. 2003. 'French Political Space: two, three or four blocs?,' French Politics, Vol.1, No.3, pp.331-348 – Reference only
*Ignazi, P. 2003. Extreme Right Parties in Western Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press) – [NIS]
Atkin, N. and F. Tallatt. 2002. The Right in France: Nationalism and the State (London: Tauris) – [NIS]
Brinks, J. and D. Binder. 2000. Children of a New Fatherland: Germany's Post-War Right-Wing Politics (London: St. Martin's) – [NIS]
Arnold, Edward J. (ed). 2000. The Development of the Radical Right in France: From Boulanger to Le Pen (New York: St. Martin's) – [NIS]
Fetzer, J. 2000. Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany (Cambridge: University Press) – [O/O]
Swyngedouw, M. and G. Ivaldi. 2001. 'The extreme Right Utopia in Belgium and France: the ideology of the Flemish Vlaams Blok and the French Front national,' West European Politics, Vol.24, No.3, pp.1-22 – Reference only
Amin, A . 2003. ' Unruly strangers? The 2001 urban riots in Britain,' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol.27, No.2, pp.460-463 - Reference only
Mayer, N. 2003. 'Le Pen's Comeback: the 2002 French presidential election,' International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol.27, No.2, pp.455-459 - Reference only
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Essay Question
Is there a rise in Far Right politics in the West today? Why or why not.
17.
Secularisation and Religious Fundamentalism
Required:
Sivan,
Emmanuel. 2003. 'The Enclave Culture'. in Strong religion : the rise of
fundamentalisms around the world. , edited by G. A. Almond, R. Scott
Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Podcasts (moderately useful):
Secularism:
Jose Casanova on secularization
Charles Taylor - The Future of the Secular
Simon Glendenning, LSE, Modernity and the Meaning of Life (on secularisation)
Religion:
Rodney Stark - The Market Approach to Understanding Religion
Stark et al., Christian Establishments and the Neglect of Faith
Rodney Stark - Early Christianity: Opium of the Privileged?
US Christian Fundamentalism
Recommended:
Abdelhadi
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/special/islam/3136154.stm>
Ayubi
*Bruce, Steve (ed.).
2002. God is Dead (Oxford: Blackwell),
ch. 1 -
200.91821
BRU (1 week)
Secularisation
(esp. Europe)
*Bruce
*Martin
*Norris,
Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. 2004. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics
Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Swatos,
William H., and Daniel V. A. Olson. 2000. The secularization debate.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers : Co-published with the
Association for the Sociology of Religion.
Bruce
Martin,
David. 2005. On Secularization. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Wallis
Kaufmann,
Eric. 2008. 'Human Development and the Demography of Secularisation in Global
Perspective'. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 4.
Barker
Fundamentalism
Christian
*Ammerman, Nancy.
1991. 'North American Protestant Fundamentalism', in Fundamentalisms observed, The Fundamentalism project, edited by M.
E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Micklethwait,
John, and Adrian Wooldridge. 2009. God is back : how the global revival of
faith is changing the world. New York: Penguin Press
Jenkins,
Philip. 2007. The next christendom : the coming of global Christianity.
Rev. and expanded ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Martin,
David. 2001. Pentecostalism: the World their Parish. Oxford: Blackwell.
Greeley
Jenkins, Philip.
2007. God's continent : Christianity, Islam, and Europe's religious crisis.
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
Wolfe, Alan. 2003. The transformation
of American religion : how we actually live our faith. New York: Free Press
*Green, John
Clifford, Mark J. Rozell, and Clyde Wilcox. 2003. The Christian right in
American politics : marching to the millennium. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown
University Press.
Wolfe
Bruce
Jewish
Efron, N. J. (2003). Real
Jews : secular versus ultra-orthodox and the struggle for Jewish identity in
Israel. New York, Basic Books.
Friedman, M. (1992).
'The Lost Kiddush Cup: Changes in Ashkenzic haredi Culture, a tradition in
crisis' in J. Wertheimer. The Uses of
Tradition. Cambridge, MA and London, Harvard University Press: 175-86.
Heilman, S. C. (2006). Sliding to the right : the contest for the future of American Jewish
Orthodoxy. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Shahak, I. and N. Mezvinsky (1999). Jewish
fundamentalism in Israel. London ; Sterling, VA, Pluto Press.
Essay Question:
Which is the more widespread trend of our time
18. Case
Study: Islamic Fundamentalism
Required:
Huntington
Wickham,
Carrie R. 2002. Mobilizing Islam, Religion, Activism and Political Change in
Egypt. New York: Columbia University Press, ch. 7
Podcasts
John L Esposito, Who Speaks for Islam
Globalization and Islam - Olivier Roy
Recommended:
Kepel
*Zubaida
Juergensmeyer
*Abdo
*Wickham
Q, Wiktorowicz. 2001. The management of Islamic activism: Salafis, the Muslim brotherhood, and state power. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press).
Meijer, Roel. 2009. Global
Salafism : Islam's new religious movement. New York: Columbia University
Press.
Rinaldo, Rachel. 2008.
'Pious Islam and Women's Activism in Indonesia'. Michigan State University
Women in Development Working Paper Series # 291.
Commins, David Dean. 2006. The Wahhabi mission and Saudi Arabia.
London ; New York: I.B. Tauris.
Ahmad, Mumtaz. 1991. 'Islamic Fundamentalism in South Asia: The Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tablighi Jamaat' in Fundamentalisms observed, The Fundamentalism project.
Piscatori, James. 1994.
'Accounting for Islamic Fundamentalisms' (ch 14) in Marty, Martin E., R. Scott
Appleby, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1994. Accounting for fundamentalisms : the dynamic character of movements,
The Fundamentalism project. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Metcalf,
Barbara
D. 1994. ' "Remaking Ourselves": Islamic Self-Fashioning in a Global
Movement of Spiritual Renewal'
(ch 25) in Accounting
for fundamentalisms : the dynamic character of movements
Liddle
Aliyev
Haddad
Yemelianova
Roy
Sengupt
Kaylan
*Robinson
Ibrahim
Nasser
Kramer
Rahnema
Zebiri
83 (3-4): 203-226
Faust K
Metcalf
Essay
Question
What explains Islamic
revival?
Required:
Podcasts:
Mark Juergensmeyer God and war
Scott Appleby - Responding to the Roots of Religious Violence
Recommended:
*Smith, Anthony D. 2004. Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
*Smith, Anthony D. 1981. The Ethnic Revival (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
Smith
Kedourie, Elie. 1971. Nationalism in Asia and Africa (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
*Juergensmeyer, Mark. 1993. The New Cold War?: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State (Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press)
*O'Brien, Connor Cruise. 1988. God-Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press)
Roy, Olivier. 1994. The Failure of Political Islam. London: I.B. Tauris.
Strenski, Ivan. 2002. Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, nationalism, and social thought in France (Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
*Seljak, David. 1996. 'Why the Quiet Revolution was “Quiet”: The Catholic Church’s Reaction to the Secularization of Nationalism in Quebec after 1960,' Historical Studies, 62 (1996), pp. 109-124 <http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1996/Seljak.htm>
Aliyev, F.B. 2004. 'Framing perceptions of Islam and the 'Islamic revival' in the post-Soviet countries,' Journal For The Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2 (7): 123-136 Yemelianova
Sengupt, A. 1999. 'The Making of a Religious Identity - Islam and the state in Uzbekistan,' Economic and Political Weekly, 34 (52): 3649-3652
Sells, M. 2003. 'Crosses of blood: Sacred space, religion, and violence in Bosnia-Hercegovina,' Sociology of Religion, 64 (3): 309-331
McGarry, John., and O'Leary, Brendan (eds).1995. Explaining Northern Ireland (Oxford: Blackwell), ch. 1
Jaffrelot, C. (1996) The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics (London: Hurst)
Jankowski, Mark and Israel Gershoni(eds). 1997. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East (New York: Columbia University Press)
Akenson, Donald Harman. 1992. God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster (Ithaca: Cornell University Press)
Fox, J. 2004. 'The Rise of Religious Nationalism and Conflict: Ethnic conflict and revolutionary wars, 1945-2001,' Journal of Peace Research, 41 (6): 715-731 NOV 2004
Essay Question
Does religion oppose or enhance nationalism?
20. Conclusion and Review.