Part III

9. Nationalism , Ethnic Parties and Democratisation

 

Required:

Snyder, Jack L. 2000. From voting to violence: democratization and nationalist conflict (New York: W W Norton), ch. 1 - [PC]

Zakaria F. 1997.The Rise of Illiberal Democracy, Foreign Affairs, vol. 76, no. 6, pp. 22-43 - Business Source Premier

 

Case: Africa and Asia: Ethnic Parties and Party Systems

Horowitz, Donald L. 1985 Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press), chs. 7 - 305.8 HOR – [PC]

Horowitz, Donald L. 1985 Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press), ch. 8 - 305.8 HOR – [PC]

 

Podcasts (moderately useful): Is Democracy Possible in Fragile States? - Professors Teddy Brett, Paul Collier and James Robinson, LSE 2010

 

Recommended:

Nationalism and Democracy: Flip Sides of the Same Coin?

*Spencer , P. and H. Wollmann. 2002. Nationalism: A Critical Introduction ( London : Sage) , ch. 5 ('nationalism and democracy') - 320.54 SPE

*Horowitz , Donald L. 1985. Ethnic Groups in Conflict ( Berkeley : University of California Press)  - 305.8 HOR – [PC]

*Snyder , Jack L. 2000. From voting to violence: democratization and nationalist conflict ( New York : W W Norton) - [PC]

*Wimmer , Andreas. 2002. Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict: Shadows of Modernity. ( Cambridge , UK , Cambridge University Press) , esp. ch. 3 – [ NIS ]

*Norris , Pippa and Mattes , Robert. 2003. "Does Ethnicity Determine Support for the Governing Party? The Structural and Attitudinal Basis of Partisan Identification in 12 African Nations" (February 2003). KSG Working Paper Series No. RWP03-009. http://ssrn.com/abstract=385209

Mozaffar , Shaheen , James R. Scarritt , and Glen Galaich. 2003. “Electoral Institutions , Ethnopolitical Cleavages , and Party Systems in Africa ’s Emerging Democracies.” American Political Science Review 97(August):379–90.

*Conversi , Daniele. 1997. The Basques , the Catalans , and Spain : Alternative Routes to Nationalist Mobilization. ( London : Hurst ) , ch. 6 - 320.540946 CON

* Linz , Juan J. and Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation : Southern Europe , South America , and Post-Communist Europe . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins ) Chs. 1 and 2 - 321.809045 LIN

*Mansfield, Edward D. and Jack Snyder. 1995. ' Democratization and the Danger of War,' International Security, Vol. 20, No. 1. pp. 5-38  - JSTOR

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

O' Leary, B. 1997. 'On the Nature of Nationalism: A Critical Appraisal of Ernest Gellner's Writings on Nationalism,' British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 2 - JSTOR

Matic, D. 1999. 'Understanding the Role of Nationalism in New Democracies,' Collegium Antropologicum, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 231-24 – [JNIS]

*Ringmar, E. 1998. 'Nationalism: the idiocy of intimacy,' British Journal of Socioliogy, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 534-549 - Business Source Premier

Keller , J. 1992. 'Nationalism as an unintended consequence of the democratization of society , ' Sociologicky Casopis , Vol. 28 , No. 1 , pp. 38-48 – [JNIS]

Calhoun C. 1993. 'Nationalism And Civil-Society - Democracy , Diversity And Self-Determination , ' International Sociology , Vol. 8 , No. 4 , pp. 387-411 – [JNIS]

Denitch , B. 1996. 'National identity , Politics and Democracy , ' Social Science Information , Vol. 35 , No. 3 , pp. 459-483 – [JNIS]

Zuo , J. and R. Benford. 1995. 'Mobilization Processes and the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement , ' Sociological Quarterly , Vol. 36 , No. 1 , pp. 131-156 – [JNIS]

Pfaff , S. 2002. Nationalism , charisma , and plebiscitary leadership: The problem of democratization in Max Weber's political sociology , Sociological Inquiry , Vol. 72 , No. 1 , pp. 81-107 – [JNIS]

Hansen , T.B. 2001. The saffron wave: Democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India ( New Delhi and Oxford : OUP) - 294.550954 HAN

Corbridge S and Harriss J. 2000. Reinventing India : Liberalization , Hindu nationalism and popular democracy ( Cambridge : Polity) – [ NIS ]

Rizman , R. 2000. 'The relevance of nationalism for democratic citizenship , ' Javnost-The Public , Vol. 7 , No. 1 , pp. 5-13 – [JNIS]

Forsythe, David P. 1992. 'Democracy, war and covert action,' Journal of Peace Research, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 385-95 - JSTOR

Nationalism vs. Democracy

*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]

Nedelsky N. 2003. 'Constitutional nationalism's implications for minority rights and democratization: the case of Slovakia,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 102-128 - INGENTA

Berezin, M. 1999. 'Democracy and its others in a global polity - Introduction,' International Sociology, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 227-243 – [JNIS]

Ward, M. and K. Gleditsch. 1998. 'Democratising for Peace,' American Political Science Review, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 51-61 - JSTOR

Starr, Harvey. 1997. 'Democracy and integration: Why democracies don't fight each other,' Journal of Peace Research, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 153-62 - JSTOR

Essay Question

·        Assess the thesis that democatisation leads to increased ethnic conflict.

 

10. Ethnic Violence and Genocide

 

Required:

Gurr, T. and B. Harff. 2003. Ethnic conflict in world politics (2nd ed) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press), ch. 5 (Conflict and Mobilization)  - KDJ [Gur]

Palmer , Alison. 'Colonial and Modern Genocide: Explanations and Categories.' Ethnic and Racial Studies , 21:1 (January 1998) , pp. 89-115 - INGENTA  

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

 

Case: Armenia

 

Adanir, F. (2001). 'Armenian deportations and massacres in 1915,' in D. Chirot & M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.), Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes, consequences, and possible solutions (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association), pp. 71-81 - [PC]

 

Podcast (somewhat useful): Genocide

 

Recommended:

Ethnic Violence

* Fearon, J. and D. Laitin. 2003. 'Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War', American Political Science Review 97, 1 (February 2003), 75-90

*Wolff , S. and Karl Cordell. 2006. Ethnic Conflict ( Cambridge : Polity) , forthcoming

*Tilly , C. 2003. The Politics of Collective Violence ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press) – [ NIS ]

*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)  - [PC]

*Varshney, A. 2003. Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (New Haven, CT: Yale)

*Bonneuil, Noel and Nadia Auriat. 2000. 'Fifty Years of Ethnic Conflict and Cohesion: 1945-94,' Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 37, No. 5., pp. 563-581. - JSTOR

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

*Snyder, Jack L. 2000. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict (New York: W. W. Norton) - [PC]

Dassel, K.1998. 'Civilians, Soldiers and Strife: Domestic Sources of International Aggression,' International Security, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 107-140 - JSTOR

Smith, Anthony D. 1981. 'War and ethnicity: the role of warfare in the formation, self-image and cohesion of ethnic communities,' Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 4, nº 4, pp. 375-397 - CE Library - I33 & Reference

*Marshall, Monty G. and Ted Robert Gurr. 2003. Peace and Conflict 2003: A Global Survey of Armed Conflicts, Self-Determination Movements, and Democracy (College Park, MD: Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research) – [NIS]

*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

Braathen , Einar , Morten Bøås , Gjermund Saether. 2000. Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War , Peace and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa ( Basingstoke : Macmillan) – [ NIS ]

Kalyvas , S. (2002). The logic of violence in civil war. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid , Working Paper pp. 1-23 – [JNIS]

Snyder , J. , & Jervis , R. (1999). Civil war and the security dilemma. In B. Walter & J. Snyder (Eds.) , Civil wars , insecurity , and intervention ( New York : Columbia University Press) pp. 15-37 – [ NIS ]

Laitin , D. 1998 "Identity and Ethnic Violence" chapter 12 of Laitin , David. 1998. Identity in Formation: The Russian Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad ( Ithaca , NY : Cornell)

Brubaker , Rogers , and David D. Laitin. 1998. "Ethnic and Nationalist Violence." , Annual Review of Sociology 24:423-452 – [JNIS]

Stuart J. Kaufman.  2001.  Modern Hatreds:  The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War ( Ithaca , NY :  Cornell University Press)  pp. 1-48 , 165-221 – [ NIS ]

Van den Berghe , Pierre (ed.) 1990. State , Violence and Ethnicity ( Niwot , CO : University Press of Colorado ) - 323.49 STA [PC]

Stewart , Pamela J. and A. Strathern. 2002. Violence: theory and ethnography ( London : Continuum) – [ NIS ]

Kissane , Bill. 2000. "Nineteenth-Century Nationalism in Finland and Ireland : A Comparative Analysis." , Nationalism & Ethnic Politics 6 , no. 2 , pp. 25-42 - Reference only

Jowitt , K. (2001). Ethnicity: Nice , nasty , and nihilistic. in D. Chirot & M. E. P. Seligman (Eds.) , Ethnopolitical warfare: Causes , consequences , and possible solutions. ( Washington , DC : American Psychological Association.) pp. 27-36 - [PC]

Berkowitz , Leonard. 1990. "Biological Roots: Are Humans Inherently Violent?" in Betty Glad ed. Psychological Dimensions of War (London: Sage , 1990) , pp. 24-40 – [ NIS ]

Genocide

*Cigar , N. 1995. Genocide in Bosnia : the policy of "ethnic cleansing" ( College Station : Texas A & M University Press) – [ NIS ]

*Horowitz, D. 2001. The Deadly Ethnic Riot (Berkeley: University of California Press), ch. 13 - [PC] Power , Samantha. 2002. “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide. ( New York : Harper Collins) – [ NIS ]

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]

Marrus , M. 1989. The Holocaust in History ( London : Penguin) - LHMd [Mar] [PC]

Chalk , Fran k and Kurt Jonassohn (eds). 1990. The history and sociology of genocide: analyses and case studies ( New Haven : Yale University Press) - 364.15109 CHA [PC]

Goldhagen , Daniel J. 1996. Hitler's Willing Executioners ( London : Little , Brown) - 943.0860922 GOL

Rummel , R. J. 1994. Death by Government. ( New Brunswick , N.J. : Transaction Publishers) , esp. ch 1 and conclusion – [ NIS ]

Fein , H. 1990. 'Genocide: a sociological perspective , ' Current Sociology , Vol. 38 , No.1. - Malet Street

Melson , Robert. 1992. Revolution and Genocide: on the origins of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press ) – [ NIS ]

Ethnic Cleansing

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

Palmer , Alison. 1992. "Ethnocide , " in Michael N. Dobkowski and Isidor Walliman , eds. , Genocide in Our Time: An Annotated Bibliography with Analytical Introductions ( Ann Arbor : Pierian Press) , Ch. 1 – [ NIS ]

Carmichael , Cathie. 2002. Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans: Nationalism and the Destruction of Tradition ( London : Routledge) – [ NIS ]

Conquest , Robert. 1970. The Nation Killers. The Soviet Deportation of Nationalities. ( New York : Macmillan) , ch.2 - 325.2347 CON

Taylor , John G. 1991 "As Bad as Biafra : population resettlement and starvation , " in John Taylor (ed.) , Indonesia 's Forgotten War. The Hidden History of East Timor . ( London : Zed Books) – [ NIS ]

Birch , Julian. 1995. "Ethnic Cleansing in the Caucasus ." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 1 , no. 4: 90-107  - Reference only

 

Essay Question

·        Why do some ethnic conflicts turn violent?

 

11. 'The View from Ground Level' - Microfoundations of Civil War: Outbidding, Spoilers, Militias

 

Required:

           

Horowitz, D. L. (1985). Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley, University of California Press., chs. 8 and 12.

Kalyvas, Stathis N. 2003. “The Ontology of ‘Political Violence’: Action and Identity in Civil Wars.” Perspectives on Politics 1 (3): 475-94

 

Case: South Sudan and Rwanda

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

also brief book review/critique of Kaufman's book:

King C. 2001. The Myth of Ethnic Warfare: Understanding Conflict in the Post-Cold War World, Foreign Affairs Vol. 80, No. 6 (Nov. - Dec., 2001), pp. 165-170.

Podcasts (useful):

Stathis Kalyvas - Microfoundations of Conflict

 

Recommended:

Microfoundations of Civil War (Rational Choice Perspectives)

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.

*Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy Weinstein. 2006. “Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War.” American Political Science Review 100 (3): 429-447

*Kalyvas, Stathis N. 2006. The Logic of Violence in Civil War. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kaufmann C. 1996. “Possible and Impossible Solutions to Ethnic Civil Wars.” International Security 20 (4): 136–7.

Johnston, Patrick. 2007. “Negotiated Settlements and Government Strategy in Civil Wars: Evidence from Darfur.” Civil Wars 9 (4): 359-377.

Walter, Barbara F. 2006. “Building Reputation: Why Governments Fight Some Separatists but Not Others.” American Journal of Political Science 50 (2): 313-330.

Kydd, A. and B Walter. 2006. 'The strategies of terrorism', International Security, VOL. 31, issue 1, pp. 49-62

Walter, Barbara F. and Andrew Kydd. 2002. “Sabotaging the Peace: The Politics of Extremist Violence.” International Organization 56(2): 263-296.

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.

Fotini Christia, 2008. “Following the Money: Muslim versus Muslim in Bosnia’s Civil

War,” Comparative Politics, July 2008.

Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein, “Who Fights? The Determinants of

Participation in Civil War” (with M. Humphreys). American Journal of Political

Science (April 2008).

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. 2003. The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory. Princeton University Press.

*Toft, Monica Duffy. 2006. “Indivisible Territory, Geographic Concentration, and Ethnic War.” Security Studies 12 (2): 82-119.

Boyle, MJ. 2008. 'Bargaining, Fear, and Denial: Explaining Violence Against Civilians in  Iraq 2004-2007,' paper presented at International-Studies-Association

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

Mitchell, P. 1995. 'Party competition in an ethnic dual party system', Ethnic and Racial Studies vol 18: 4, 773-96

Moghadam, A. 2009. 'Motives for Martyrdom Al-Qaida, Salafi Jihad, and the Spread of Suicide Attacks,' International Security, 33, 3, pp. 46 - 63

Seymour, Lee. 2008. “Fragmentation in Civil Wars: The Micropolitics of Insurgency and Factional Conflict in Sudan.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, 26-29 March.

Staniland, Paul. Forthcoming. Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation, and Control in Ethnic Insurgent and Paramilitary Groups. PhD dissertation, Political Science Department, MIT.

 

Essay Question

·         'Ethnic identity is irrelevant when it comes to explaining civil violence on the ground'. Do you agree?