POLS 406 Syllabus (Spring 2016):21 January 2016

POLS 406: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

Spring 2016
Lauren Christine Morris
Class Time: Th 4-6:45pm, 315 Plassmann
Office: C4, Plassmann basement, Political Science
Email: laurenmorris@bonaventure.edu
Office Hours:
by appt.
Purpose
Since the end of the Cold War, nationalist and ethnic conflicts have
represented the
primary threats to peace, stability, and democratic consolidation in many
countries with ethnic conflicts accounting for 50-75% of civil wars in the
world. We will thus explore how and why nationalism can account for this
drastic increase in ethnic conflicts.
The purpose of this course is to familiarize you with the different
perspectives we can use to analyze nationalism. It will seek to help you
develop your own criteria for analyzing the interactions between statebuilding and nation-building, the relationship between nationalism,
citizenship and minority rights, the nexus between nationalism, ethnicity and
conflict, the colonial legacies of nationalism, religious nationalism, and the
impact of globalization on nationalism. Particularly, we will seek to answer
the following questions: Where is the nations homeland? Who is part of
us? What collective mission does are we to accomplish? How are these
questions answered? Do the answers change? These and other questions of
nationalism and national identity are at the heart of inter- and intra-national
conflict around the world.
The course consists of one lecture seminar per week, a take-home
examination, and the final research paper of approximately 20-25 pages in
length. This is very much a lecture course much of the content of the
course will be coming from the lectures and the readings are designed to
supplement or provide a counterpoint to the materials presented in lecture.
There are approximately 100 pages of reading per week, with lighter
assignments in some weeks to help you make progress on your research
papers.
Reading and other materials:
Readings are available online through the library reserves section of the course website and
through the Bonaventure bookstore. I recommended ordering them through Amazon or finding
them on Google Scholar.

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Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. New York: Verso Press.
Brubaker, Rogers. 1992. Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in
the New Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Chatterjee, Partha. 1993. The Nation and its fragments: Colonial and Post-Colonial
Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Gellner, Ernst. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Marx, Anthony. 2003. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. New York:
Oxford University Press.

Requirements:
There are three requirements for this course:
1.

Participation (30%)

2.

Research Paper (40%)

3.

Comprehensive Exam (30%)

1. Participation (30%)
Students are expected to attend each class ready to contribute to the discussion and to have done
the readings assigned for each session prior to class. You should come prepared with two or three
questions raised by the readings. This course is a discussion seminar and your active
participation will determine how much you will get out of it. In this vein, each week two students
will provide a critique of the readings that will serve as the starting point for our discussion.
These critiques should not be summaries of the readings. At the very least the critiques should
argue the relative merits of the claims in the readings based on an evaluation of their
assumptions, conceptual argument, research design, evidence, and implications. Your critiques
should also try to situate each reading in the literature as a whole.
The critiques must be uploaded by noon on the Wednesday before the class in question to the rest
of the class to the POLS 406 Sakai page.
2. Research Paper (40%)
The major assignment is an original research paper on an aspect of nationalism and its
contribution to ethnic conflict that you are interested in. The paper should be 20-25 pages
(double spaced) and is due Monday 9 May (the day our final exam is scheduled for). Students
are strongly encouraged to discuss the proposal and the paper with me (and with your
colleagues) throughout the semester.

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To prevent unclear, undeveloped research papers - the paper will be due in numerous parts
throughout the semester. The research topic is due in class on Thursday 11 February, followed
by the literature review due on Thursday 25 February. Each student must upload the completed
research assignment to the POLS 406 Sakai site as a Microsoft Word file or pdf. by 5 p.m. on
Monday 9 May.
3. TAKE- HOME Exam (30%)
At the mid-point of the semester you will be given an exam question based on one of the
readings up to that point in the semester. You will have 1 week to complete the exam. You will
receive 1 question to research and write an answer to the question based on a review of the
literature from various research journals (American Political Science Review, International
Security, World Politics, etc) as well as what we read in class. Your answer should include a
minimum of 6 unique citations to different relevant works in the exam (e.g. 6 different articles).
While the question will be based on issues discussed in class, you will need to find additional
sources to include as we will likely not have read 6 applicable works for each question. The
exam should be a minimum of 6 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman. Additionally, you
should refer to our Sakai page for more information on proper formatting.
COURSE AND UNIVERSITY POLICIES
Academic Honesty

You should be familiar with Academic Integrity for Graduate and Undergraduate
Students, available on the Dean of Student Affairs website. St. Bonaventure University
policy states: Faculty members who encounter an instance where substantial evidence of
academic dishonesty exists must report the situation to the Dean of Student Affairs office.
This policy assures consistency in the treatment of academic dishonesty and allows the
institution to identify repeat offenders. The Dean of Student Affairs office will work with
the faculty member in applying university and departmental policies and assist in
determining an academic outcome.

Academic dishonesty includes the following: buying papers; borrowing papers; lending
papers (or parts of papers) to other students; submitting the same assignment for two
different classes without the express permission of both instructors; plagiarism, defined
as quoting material from other sources without using quotation marks or paraphrasing
materials without proper citation; uploading corrupted files to Sakai; and collaboration
among students in writing the mid-term exam and the final exam. St. Bonaventure
University has a site license for Turnitin.com, a leading anti-plagiarism software
package..

Late Papers and Make-Up Exams

All late submissions incur a penalty of 10% (i.e., a letter grade) per each day or portion
thereof after the deadline. This means, an assignment submitted anywhere from one
minute to one day late that might otherwise have earned a 90 (A-), will instead earn an 80
(B-). If the same assignment were two days late, it would earn a 70 (C-). Any assignment

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submitted five or more days after the deadline automatically earns a 50 or lower (F). Late
penalties are not negotiable.

Only students with legitimate and documented excuses are exempt from the late penalties
or will be able to take a make-up exam. There are only three legitimate excuses:

Bereavement (e.g., the death of a parent, a step parent, a sibling, or another close
relative); a life threatening illness in your immediate family that requires you to
leave campus; or a serious illness or medical emergency that requires you to
receive immediate medical attention

In the case of bereavement or a family emergency, the student must ask his or her
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in Plassmann Hall to send me notification.
In the case of a serious illness or medical emergency, the student is required to provide
medical documentation from Health Service or other medical provider information if the
student is too ill to take finish the class requirements.

Please remember that any student in such unfortunate circumstances is still responsible
for obtaining documentation from an Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and/or
Health Services in a timely fashion. A timely fashion means a within a day or two.
THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.

I am stringent in enforcing deadlines to reward the overwhelming majority of students

who submit assignments on time. We also seek to prevent collective action problems and
chaos. Please remember I cannot grant an extension or allow you to take make-up the
take-home exam due to the demands of your other classes, due dates of other
assignments, or extracurricular activities.

POLS 406 Grading Standards

There is no grade curve in this class. All excellent work will earn an A (90-99%); all
meritorious work will earn a B (80-89%); work without any marked merit or defect will
earn a C (70-79%); and all unsatisfactory or mediocre work will earn a D (60-69%).
Abysmal, incompetent, or non- existent work will earn an F (59% or lower). These are
the standards set in the Bulletin of St. Bonaventure University: School of Arts and
Sciences.

St. Bonaventure University policy states: Effective education requires timely and
objective evaluation of students' academic work, using clear, standard, fair and public
criteria. Such standards should be listed in the course syllabus. While criteria differ across
disciplines and faculty, and while the ultimate responsibility for setting standards and
evaluating performance rests with departments and individual faculty, submitted grades
are final and not subject to negotiation.

I want you to do excellent work. We will try hard to explain assignments clearly ahead of
time and otherwise do everything we can to help you do your best. I also try to be fair and
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consistent in grading. We also spend a considerable amount of effort to ensure

consistency in grading among the various recitations. That said if legitimate grading
errors occurs (e.g., we miscalculate a score), we will correct them promptly.

Please do not attempt to bargain, negotiate, or plead for a higher grade. The grading
guidelines for the take-home exam and research paper appear on the POLS 406 Sakai
site. Please remember, that in the interest of fairness to everyone, I evaluate all work
according to these guidelines. Please do your part by reading and following the guidelines
for the papers and the study guides for the take-home exam in the Assignment folder of
the POLS 406 Sakai site.

Please remember I can only evaluate the work submitted to us. I cannot grade the amount
of "effort" you put into an assignment, an exam, or the course as a whole. I cannot award
"extra credit." There will be no opportunities to "do over" any portion of the research
paper, or the take-home exam. Remember, I must hold all students to the same standards
and we have limited time to grade student assignments.

E-mail Etiquette

Please ask substantive or lengthy questions in class, after class, during office hours, or
during a scheduled appointment, not via email. Unfortunately, I cannot provide
commentary on draft assignments via email. I will not discuss grades via e-mail.

Please make sure to send email from your St. Bonaventure University account or another
e-mail account (e.g. Gmail) that includes your full name (first name and last name) in the
senders address. SPAM filters discard email sent from addresses with a single name or
nickname.

Please remember, I have other responsibilities in addition to this class, as well as a life
away from St. Bonaventure University. I may or may not check my university e-mail
accounts after normal business hours on weekdays (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.), on weekends, or
during university vacations. This means, if you send me an email at 3 a.m. on Sunday, I
am unlikely to read it until Monday morning.
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If English is not your first language or you are not proficient in standard written English,
please seek assistance at the Academic Resources Center (ARC) in Doyle Hall. The ARC
also offers free peer tutoring, help with writing, and workshops on efficient reading, note
taking, and time management.

Remember it is your responsibility to notify the ARC of any permanent physical or

learning disability at the beginning of the semester. Please do not provide documentation
of an existing disability just before a due date or at the end of the semester and expect an
extension of deadlines. For further information please consult the Disability Services
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Week 1:
Thursday, 21 Jan.

Introduction
Haas, Ernst B. 1986. What is nationalism and why should we
study it?, International Organization, 30(3): 707-744.
Connor, Walker. 1978. A Nation is a Nation, is a State, is an
Ethnic Group is a, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1(4): 377-397.
Brubaker, Rogers 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and
the National Question in the New Europe, pp. 13-22.

Abdelai, Rawi, Yoshiko Herrera, Alastair Johnston and Rose

McDermott, December 2006. Identity as a Variable,
Perspectives
on Politics, 4(4): 695-711.
Chandra, Kanchan, forthcoming. Making Causal Claims about the
effect of ethnicity, in Mark Lichbach and Alan Zuckerman, eds.
Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure.
Week 2:
Thursday, 28 Jan.

When is a nation? The Primordial and Perennial Answer

Geertz, Clifford. 1963. The Integrative Revolution, in Clifford
Geertz, ed., Old Societies and New States, 105-130.
Smith, Anthony. The Ethnic Origins of Nations, 21-46, 129-173.

Racial

Grosby, Stephen 1994. The Verdict of History: The Inexpungeable Tie of

PrimordialityA Response to Eller and Coughlan, Ethnic and
Studies, 17(1): 164-171.

Policy.

Jan Erk. 2003. Wat We Zelf Doen, Doen We Beter; Belgian Substate
Nationalisms, Congruence and Public Policy, Journal of Public
23(2):201-24.

Studies,

Gil-White, Franscisco J. September 1999. How Thick is Blood? The Plot

Thickens: If Ethnic Actors are Primordialists, What Remains of the
Circumstantialist/Primordialist Controversy? Ethnic and Racial
pp. 789-820.
Connor, Walker. July 1993. Beyond Reason: The Nature of the
Ethnonational Bond, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 16(3): 373-389.

Week 3:

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Thursday, 4 Feb.

When is a nation II? The Modernist Answer

Gellner, Ernst. Nations and Nationalism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
The nation: real or imagined? The Warwick Debates on Nationalism,
Nations and Nationalism, 2(3):357-370.
Greenfeld, Leah. 1996. Nationalism and Modernity, Social Research,
63(1): 3-35.

Week 4:
Thursday, 11 Feb.

Where do nations come from? The Constructivist Answer

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism.
RESEARCH TOPIC DUE

Week 5:
Thursday, 18 Feb.

Where do nations come from? The Instrumentalist Answer

Hobsbawm, Eric. 1983. Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914,
in The Invention of Tradition. Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 263-307.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh. 1983. The Invention of Tradition: The Highland

Tradition of Scotland, in The Invention of Tradition. Eric
Hobsbawm and
Terence Ranger, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 15-42.

Ethnic
Victor
3-35,

Bates, Robert H. 1983. Modernization, Ethnic Competition and the

Rationality of Politics in Contemporary Africa, in State versus
Claims: African Policy Dilemmas, Eds. Donald Rothchild and
Olorunsola. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 152-171.
Laitin, David. 1998. Identities in Formation: The Russian-Speaking
Populations in the Near Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
105-157.
Laitin, David D. 1995. "Marginality: A Microperspective." Rationality and
Society 7(1):31-57.
Hroch, Miroslav, January-April, 2004. From ethnic group toward the
modern nation: the Czech case, Nations & Nationalism, 10(1/2):

95-107.
Price, Robert, June 1997. Race and Reconciliation in the New South
Africa, Politics & Society, 25(2):149-178.
Week 6:
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Thursday, 25 Feb.

How to account for the stability and fluidity in nations and

nationalism?
Brubaker, Rogers, Mara Loveman, and Peter Samatov. 2004. Ethnicity as
Cognition. Theory and Society 33: 31-64.
Brubaker, Rogers and Frederick Cooper. 2000. Beyond Identity,
Theory and Society, 29(1): 1-47.
Kuran, Timur. June 1998. Ethnic Norms and Their Transformation
Through Reputational Cascades, Journal of Legal Studies, 623-

659.
Week 7:
Thursday, 3 Mar.

Nationalism and the State

Brubaker, Rogers. 1996. Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the
National Question in the New Europe, 23-106.
Marx, Anthony. 2003. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of
Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, chs. 5-6.

Evans,
State Back

Laitin, David D. 1985. Hegemony and Religious Conflict: British

Imperial Control and Political Cleavages in Yorubaland, in Peter
Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the
In, pp. 285-316.
LITERATURE REVIEW DUE

Week 8:
Thursday, 10 Mar.

Nationalism and Citizenship

Brubaker, Rogers. 1992. Citizenship and nationhood in France and
Germany. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Marx, Anthony. 2003. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of
Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, ch 4.
Mosse, George L. 1995. Racism and Nationalism, Nations and
Nationalism, 1(2):163-173.

Week 9:
Thursday, 17 Mar.

Nationalism, Religion, and Religious Nationalism

Marx, Anthony. 2003. Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of
Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, chs. 1-3, 7
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Smith, Anthony D. 2000. The 'Sacred' Dimension of Nationalism,

Millennium, 29(3): 791-814.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. July, 1995. The New Religious State.
Comparative Politics 27(4): 379-91.
Asad, Talal. 1999. Religion, nation-state, secularism, in Peter van der
Veer and Hartmut Lehman (eds.), Nation and Religion:
Perspectives on
Europe and Asia. Princeton University Press.

identities,
Week 10:
Thursday, 24 Mar.

Lapidus, Ira. 2001. Between universalism and particularism: The

historical bases of Muslim communal, national, and global
Global Networks 1(1):37-55.
Nationalism and Colonialism
Chatterjee, Partha. 1993. The Nation and its fragments: Colonial and
Post-Colonial Histories. Princeton: Princeton University Press,

chs. 1-3.
Fanon, Frantz, On National Culture, 206-248
Young, Crawford, Ethnicity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial State in
Africa, in Paul Brass., ed. Ethnic Groups and the State. (1985).
Herbst, Jeffrey. Autumn, 1989. The Creation and Maintenance of
National Boundaries in Africa, International Organization, 43(4):
673-692.
Posner, Daniel N. January 2003. The Colonial Origins of Ethnic
Cleavages: The Case of Linguistic Divisions in Zambia,
Comparative
Politics, pp. 127-146.
SPRING BREAK
Week 11:
Thursday, 7 Apr.

NO CLASS - TAKE HOME-EXAM POSTED ON SAKAI

Week 12:
Thursday, 14 Apr.

Nationalism and Conflict

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Laitin, David. 1995. "National revivals and violence," European Journal

of Sociology, 36: 3-43.

132-168,

Gagnon, V.P. Jr. Winter 1994/1995. "Ethnic Nationalism and International

Conflict: The Case of Serbia," International Security 19(3), pp.
and correction.
Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin. 2000. "Violence and the Social
Construction of Ethnic Identity." International Organization

54(4):845-77.
Fearon, James and David Laitin. December 1996. Explaining Interethnic
Cooperation, The American Political Science Review, 90(4): 715735.

Malawi.

Posner, Daniel. The Political Salience of Cultural Difference: Why

Chewas and Tumbukas Are Allies in Zambia and Adversaries in
American Political Science Review. 98.4 (2004): 529-545.
HAND IN EXAM BY BEGINNING OF CLASS

Week 13:
Thursday, 21 Apr.

Resolving Ethnic and National Conflict

Horowitz, Donald L. April 2003. The Cracked Foundations of the Right
to Secede, Journal of Democracy 14(2):5-17.
Sambanis, Nicholas. July 2000. Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An
Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature, World Politics,

437-483.
Lijphart, Arend. March 1971. Cultural Diversity and Theories of Political
Integration, Canadian Journal of Political Science, 4(1):1-14.

Princeton

101(4):
Week 14:
Thursday, 28 Apr.

OLeary, Brendan. 2003. What States Can Do with Nations: An Iron Law
of Nationalism and Federation?, in T. V. Paul, G. John Ikenberry, and
John A. Hall, eds., The Nation-State in Question. Princeton, NJ:
University Press, pp. 51-78.
Elkins, Zachary and John Sides. November 2007. Can Institutions Build
Unity in Multiethnic States? American Political Science Review,
693-708.

Nations, Nation-States and Globalization

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Hobsbawm, E.J. 1990. Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme,

Myth, Reality, 169-192.
Gueheno Jean-Marie. 1995. The end of the nation in The end of the
nation-state, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Smith, Anthony D. 1990. The Supersession of Nationalism?
International Journal of Comparative Sociology 31(1-2):1-31.
Kaldor, Mary. April, 2004. Nationalism and Globalisation, Nations &
Nationalism, 10(1/2): 161-177.

Keating
Week 15:
Thursday, 5 May

Laitin, David. 2001. National Identities in the European State. In

Minority Nationalism and the Changing International Order. Eds.
and McGarry. Oxford: Oxford UP, 84-113.

Conclusion/Review
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE / FINDINGS DUE

Monday, 9 May

Research Paper Due by 5pm (Upload to Sakai).

Additional Readings:
Week 1:
Renan, Ernst What is a nation.
Smith, Anthony National Identity (1991).
Smith, Anthony The Ethnic Origins of Nations (1987).
Suny, Ronald and Geoff Eley, eds., Becoming National: A Reader (1996).
Theo Goldberg, David The Semantics of Race, Ethnic and Racial Studies, vol. 15, no. 4
(October 1992), pp. 543-569
Weber, Eugen Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
(1976).
Weber, Max. 1978 [1922]. Economy and Society, eds. Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich.
Week 2:
Shaw, R. Paul and Yuwa Wong, Genetic Seeds of Warfare: Evolution, Nationalism and
Patriotism (1989), pp. 23-61.
Shils, Edward. Primordial, Personal, Sacred, and Civil Ties, British Journal of Sociology,
(1957), pp. 113-145.
Smith, A. D. The Ethnic Revival
Smith, Anthony Nationalism and Modernism (London: Routledge, 1998)

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Week 3:
Deutsch, Karl. 1953. Nationalism and social communication,
Gellner, E. "Nationalism," Theory and Society, vol. 10 No 6, 1981. pp 753-76.
Hall, John A. and Ian Jarvie (eds.), The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner.
Hall, John A. (ed.) The state of the nation. Ernest Gellner and the theory of nationalism
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge)
Nairn, Tom. 1997. Faces of nationalism. New York: Verso.
OLeary, B. P. 1997. On the Nature of Nationalism: An Appraisal of Ernest Gellners Writings
on Nationalism, British Journal of Political Science, 27:191-222.
Week 4:
Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality (1966).
Calhoun, Craig ed., Social Theory and the Politics of Identity (1994).
Week 5:
Laitin, David D. 1995. "National Revivals and Violence." Archives Europenes De Sociologie
36(1):3-43.
Laitin, David. 1998. Identities in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near
Abroad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Laitin, David Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa.
Rothschild, Joseph Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework (1981).
Week 6:
Beissinger, Mark. Spring 1996. How Nationalisms Spread: Eastern Europe Adrift and Tides
and Cycles of Nationalist Contention, Social Research, 63(1): 97-137.
Kuran, Timur, The Unthinkable and the Unthought,
Lustick, Ian. 2000. "Agent-based modeling of collective identity: Testing constructivist
theory." Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, 3,1.
Week 7:
Miller, David On Nationality (1995).
Rothschild, Joseph. 1981. Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework. New York: Columbia
University Press.
Wimmer, Andreas. 1997. "Who Owns the State? Understanding Ethnic Conflict in PostColonial Societies." Nations and Nationalism 3(4):631-65.
Week 8:
Gurr, Ted Minorities at Risk (1993).
Gurr, Ted Peoples versus States: Minorities at Risk in the New Century (2000).

H
orowitz, Donald A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided
Society (1991), pp. 163-238.
Horowitz, Donald Ethnic Groups in Conflict.
Lichtenberg, Judith How Liberal Can Nationalism Be?, in Beiner, ed., Theorizing
Nationalism.
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Lijphart, Arend Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of 27 Democracies, 1945-1990
(1994).

L
ijphart, Arendt Democracy in Plural Societies (1977).
Week 9:
Smith, Anthony Nationalism in Early Modern Europe, History and Theory 44, October 2005,
404-415.
Smith, Anthony D. Nationalism and Religion & The Nation as a Sacred Communion in
Idem, Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity, Oxford University Press,
2003.
Week 10:
Hechter, Michael. 2000. Containing Nationalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Week 11:
No class
Week 12:
Fearon, James D. and David D. Laitin. 2003. "Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war", in
American Political Science Review 97 (1):1-16.

F
eldman, Allen Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror
in Northern Ireland (1991).
Horowitz, Donald L. The Deadly Ethnic Riot (2001).
Week 13:
Lustick, Ian. Apr., 1979. Stability in Deeply Divided Societies: Consociationalism versus
Control, World Politics, 31(3): 325-344.
Buchanan, Allen Theories of Secession, Philosophy and Public Affairs (Winter 1997), pp.
31-61.
Horowitz, Donald L. Ethnic Groups in Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1985. Chapter 6.
Lijphart, Arendt. 1990. The Power-Sharing Approach, in Joseph Montville (ed.) Conflict and
Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, pp. 491-509.
Lijphart, Arend. Conflict and Coexistence in Belgium: the dynamics of a culturally divided
society.
Lijphart, A. Constitutional Design for Divided Societies
Lustick, Ian. 1993. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria,
Israel and West Bank-Gaza, pp. 26-51.
Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen Van Evera. December 18, 1995. "When Peace Means War,"
New Republic, pp. 16-18; 21.
Rothchild, Donald and Victor Olorunsola, eds., State Versus Ethnic Claims: Africa Policy
Dilemmas (1983).
Week 14:
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Wendt, Alexander. 2003. Why a world state is inevitable, European Journal of International

Relations, 9(4): 491-542.

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