International Security Studies Courses
This is a listing of courses available in 2010-11 that may be of interest to students pursuing the Graduate
Certificate of Concentration in International Security Studies.
These courses are divided into three categories:
1. “Core courses” - courses that have a core focus on International Security Studies issues, one of which must be
taken to fulfill the requirements of the Certificate;
2. “Security-related courses” - courses that count toward completion of the Certificate;
3. “Other possible courses” - courses that may count toward the Certificate, pending approval of the course
instructor and Certificate adviser to ensure the student completes relevant security-related coursework.
Students interested in the Certificate should meet with the faculty adviser to discuss courses appropriate for
their program. Candidates may petition the faculty adviser to have other relevant courses count toward the
Certificate or added to the core list.
FALL 2010
I. CORE COURSES
HIST 759 /INRL657, One World? International History, 1914-1991. Patrick Cohrs
This research seminar pursues both a historical and a theoretical reexamination of the modern international
system in the "short" twentieth century, analyzing why it was so profoundly transformed between the era of
imperialism preceding World War I and the end of the Cold War. Main themes include the origins of
international conflicts from the Great War and the Great Depression to the U.S.-Soviet antagonism; the peace
settlements after the world wars (or absence thereof); American postwar policies and their significance for
European integration and the reconstruction of Japan; changing regional configurations in East Asia, Latin
America, Africa, and the Middle East; and the question why the Cold War ended as it did. Particular attention to
the changing premises and constraints of international politics that influence the making and unmaking of
legitimate international orders in the twentieth century.
HIST 985/PLSC716/MGT984, Studies in Grand Strategies, Part II. Paul Kennedy, John Gaddis, Charles Hill
Part II of the two-term linked seminar offered during the calendar year 2010. Research seminar.
This two-term course begins in January with readings in classical works from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz to Kissinger.
Students identify principles of strategy and examine the extent to which these were or were not applied in
historical case studies from the Peloponnesian War to the post-Cold War period. During the summer students
undertake research projects or internships designed to apply resulting insights to the detailed analysis of a
particular strategic problem or aspect of strategy. Written reports are presented and critically examined early in
the fall term. Students must take both terms, fulfill the summer research/internship, and attend additional
lectures to be scheduled throughout the spring and fall terms.
INRL 720, Central Issues in American Foreign Policy. Stuart Gottlieb
Examination of the sources, substance, and enduring themes of American foreign policy. Overview of America's
rise to global power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and American foreign policy decision making
during the Cold War and the post-Cold War era. Special focus on the most current challenges in American
foreign policy, including the war on terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the conflict in
Iraq, and America's role in global institutions and the world economy. Attendance at INTS 376a lectures
required.
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INRL 730, The United Nations and the Maintenance of International Security. Jean Krasno
Consideration of the role of the U.N. in preventive diplomacy, using force for peacekeeping, peace enforcement,
and peace building, with consideration of the evolution of the U.N. and its role in a post-Cold War international
system.
SOCY 553, Empires and Imperialism. Peter Stamatov
A study of empire as a territorial organization of political power. Comparison of empire in different historical
periods, from antiquity to European overseas expansion in the fifteenth through twentieth century, and in
different geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Review of economic, political, and cultural theories of
imperialism, colonialism, and decolonization.
II. SECURITY-RELATED COURSES
HIST 514, The Athenian Imperial Democracy. Donald Kagan
A history of Greece in the years between the Persian invasion and the Peloponnesian War, with emphasis on
Athens.
HIST 753, Methods in Transnational History. Jenifer Van Vleck
Readings in historiography after the "transnational turn." Emphasis on methods, especially research strategies,
interpretive frameworks, and keywords. Topics of readings and discussions include empire, colonialism, and
postcolonialism; nations and nationalisms; borders and borderlands; political economy; technology, mass
culture, and globalization; and transnational approaches to the history of race and gender.
INRL 619, U.S.-Iranian Diplomacy. Hillary Leverett
The course explores specific episodes of U.S.-Iranian diplomatic engagement since the Iranian revolution and the
establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. The course also includes a detailed diplomatic "war game"
that provides hands-on exposure to the domestic and international dynamics that will shape possibilities for
U.S.-Iranian engagement in the future.
LAW 20040, Law Public Order World Community. W. Michael Reisman
4 units. This introduction to contemporary international law will study the role of authority in the decisionmaking processes of the world community, at the constitutive level where international law is made and applied
and where the indispensable institutions for making decisions are established and maintained, as well as in the
various sectors of the public order that is established. Consideration will be given to formal as well as
operational prescriptions and practice with regard to the participants in this system (states, intergovernmental
and nongovernmental organizations, political parties, pressure groups, multinational enterprises, other private
associations, private armies and gangs, and individuals); the formal and informal arenas of interaction; the
allocation of control over and regulation of the resources of the planet; the protection of people and the
regulation of nationality; and the allocation among states of jurisdiction to make and apply law. In contrast to
more traditional approaches, which try to ignore the role of power in this system, that role will be candidly
acknowledged, and the problems and opportunities it presents will be explored. Special attention will be given
to (1) theory; (2) the establishment, transformation, and termination of actors; (3) control of access to and
regulation of resources, including environmental prescriptions; (4) nationality and human rights, .and (5) the
regulation of armed conflict.
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LAW 20545, International Law &Foreign Affairs. Oona Hathaway
4 units. This course will begin with an overview of current legal debates in U.S. international lawmaking and
foreign affairs. Students will then work on research topics selected by the instructor from among those
presented to the group by congressional staff, attorneys in the Legal Adviser's Office at the Department of State,
or nonprofit groups working on issues relating to foreign affairs and international law. Some research projects
may also be generated by the class itself after group discussion. Students will work both individually and in small
groups to write reports on the selected topics and, where appropriate, produce proposals for reform. Students
will also present the results of their research projects to the class and, where possible, to those outside the Law
School who are directly involved in the debates. Enrollment limited to eight.
LAW 20578, Law American Foreign Policy Issues. Paul Gewirtz
3 units. This seminar will examine current issues of American foreign policy. Much of the seminar will involve
conventional seminar-style discussion of issues and readings, at times with the guest participation of leading
scholars and practitioners in the foreign policy field. Central to the seminar, however, will be a variety of
collaborative student projects intended to be part of ongoing foreign policy debates. Each student will be
expected to undertake a significant writing project to be determined in consultation with the instructor during
the course of the term. Enrollment is with the permission of the instructor.
SOCY 553, Empires and Imperialism. Peter Stamatov
A study of empire as a territorial organization of political power. Comparison of empire in different historical
periods, from antiquity to European overseas expansion in the fifteenth through twentieth century, and in
different geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Europe. Review of economic, political, and cultural theories of
imperialism, colonialism, and decolonization.
III. OTHER POSSIBLE COURSES
ANTH 510/AMST650/HIST807, Resistance, Rebellion, and Survival Strategies in Modern Latin America. Gilbert
Joseph, Patricia Pessar
An interdisciplinary examination of new conceptual and methodological approaches to such phenomena as
peasants in revolution, millenarianism, "banditry," refugee movements, and transnational migration.
INRL 760, Policy Workshop. Stuart Gottlieb
One-term workshop in which small teams choose (with instructor approval) a specific global policy
issue/challenge to be analyzed from a variety of perspectives (government, NGO, private sector) and levels
(national, regional, international) showing all sides of the policy-making and implementation process. What are
the best policy options? How were they determined? What are the obstacles to their implementation? What
more can be done to help develop realistic solutions? Teams ultimately address these and other questions in a
policy white paper, and a "brown bag" oral presentation offered through the Jackson Institute.
LAW 20483, Advanced Civil Liberties and National Security after September 11. Lee Gelernt, Hope Metcalf,
Michael Wishnie
2 units. This clinic will focus on civil liberties cases arising out of U.S. government counter-terrorism policies,
such as the misuse of law enforcement techniques like immigration and material witness detention powers.
Only open to students who completed the Civil Liberties and National Security after September 11 seminar and
beginning clinic, or with special permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited. Permission of the instructors
required
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PHIL 650, Hobbes and Kant on the Right. Stephen Darwall
A close study of the philosophy of right, justice, and law of Thomas Hobbes and Immanuel Kant along with some
contemporary philosophy influenced by Hobbes and Kant.
PLSC 625, Means and Ends in Politics. Karuna Mantena
The course considers the tension between principles of political action (means) and political ideals (ends). It asks
how political theory ought to situate itself vis à vis the historical, sociological, and practical contexts of politics.
Organized around tensions between idealism and realism, philosophy and politics, moral and political judgment,
practical and theoretical reason, and moral intention and unintended consequences. Thinkers to be considered
include Aristotle, Machiavelli, Burke, Weber, Arendt, and Gandhi.
PLSC 679, International Relations Field Seminar. Nuno Monteiro
The course is about theories of international relations—how to evaluate existing theories, how to construct new
theories, and how to think about the nature and possibility of causal explanation in international relations. The
course starts out with an examination of different philosophical treatments of the problem of causal explanation
and goes on to explore how these underpin the different explanatory approaches in international relations and
in the social sciences more generally. In doing so, the course provides a general survey of the main theoretical
perspectives in the field of international relations, the methods used to substantiate their claims, and the
philosophies of science that continue to play an important role in scholarly debates in the field. The course is not
focused on a description or analysis of the events, institutions, and processes that make up international
relations. Nor is the purpose of the course to expose students to the most recent works in all areas of
contemporary international relations. It is designed to give students the theoretical foundations and conceptual
tools needed to pursue the study of international relations and to pass the Ph.D. qualifying exam.
PLSC 756, The European Union. David Cameron
An examination of the origins, development, institutions, contemporary policy-making processes, and challenges
facing the European Union. Topics include theories of European integration, the creation of a single internal
market, the creation of an Economic and Monetary Union, the several enlargements, the contemporary role of
the Union in economic policy, justice and home affairs, and foreign and defense policy, efforts to address the socalled democratic deficit in the Union, and the recent negotiation of a constitutional treaty.
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SPRING 2011
I. CORE COURSES
HIST 985 /MGT984/PLSC715, Studies in Grand Strategies, Part I. John Gaddis, Charles Hill, Paul Kennedy
This two-term course begins in January with readings in classical works from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz to Kissinger.
Students identify principles of strategy and examine the extent to which these were or were not applied in
historical case studies from the Peloponnesian War to the post-Cold War period. During the summer students
undertake research projects or internships designed to apply resulting insights to the detailed analysis of a
particular strategic problem or aspect of strategy. Written reports are presented and critically examined early in
the fall term. Students must take both terms, fulfill the summer research/internship, and attend additional
lectures to be scheduled throughout the spring and fall terms.
INRL 597, Democrats at War. John Kane
Democracies are generally supposed to be peaceful by nature, fearing war as dangerous to the survival of
popular government because of the consequent militarization and centralization of power. Democratic peace
theory, moreover, states that democracies do not go to war with one another. Nevertheless, democracies have
not infrequently conducted wars, large and small, with other states or peoples. The class explores the kinds of
reasons that democracies enter wars, the ways they conduct them, and how they exit from them, as well as the
effects that such wars have on the democratic polity itself.
INRL 765, Contemporary Issues in American Diplomacy and National Security. John Negroponte
The seminar addresses key issues in U.S. foreign policy and how they are being addressed by the current
administration. Readings and discussion deal with selected regional and functional topics, with emphasis on
those with the most pressing national security implications. The course is taught from the perspective of a
diplomatic practitioner with additional experience in other aspects of national security.
INRL 611, Globalization and Grand Strategy: The United States, Rising Asia, and the Persian Gulf in the TwentyFirst Century. Flynt Leverett
The course examines two related sets of issues that will substantially influence the structure of international
relations in the twenty-first century. First, the course looks at the Persian Gulf as one of the world's most
important emerging "nodes" of economic globalization—in energy, finance, and the distribution of global
production in a growing number of business sectors. Second, the course explores the intensifying competition
for strategic influence in the Gulf between the United States, the established regional "hegemon," and Asian
economic powers—especially China, the preeminent "rising" power.
INRL 725, Terrorism and Counterterrorism. Stuart Gottlieb
Examination of the origins and evolution of modern terrorism, and strategies employed to confront and combat
terrorism. Assessment of a wide variety of terrorist organizations and the multidimensional causes of terrorist
violence past and present. Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of various counterterrorism strategies from
the point of view of efficacy as well as ethics, with a particular focus on ways in which the threat of global
terrorism might impact the healthy functioning of democratic states. Attendance at INTS 373b lectures required.
PLSC 651, The Balance of Power: Theory and Practice. Nuno Monteiro
The seminar explores the role of the balance of power in the theory and practice of international relations. We
cover the development of different theoretical views on the balance of power as well as the history of the
international balance of power since the turn of the twentieth century. The emphasis is analytic rather than
historical; we therefore focus on what the balance of power can highlight on recent, post-Cold War events and
trends. By the end of the course, students should be conversant with the theoretical aspects of balance-of-
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power scholarship and also have a broad picture of the historical development of the rise and fall of great
powers in the last hundred years.
PLSC 667, The Causes of War. Keith Darden
Examination of classical and contemporary theories of the causes of war. Consideration of historical cases that
spawned such theories, including the Peloponnesian War, the Thirty Years' War, and World Wars I and II.
II. SECURITY-RELATED COURSES
HIST 691, Empire and Nation in Eastern Europe: The Nineteenth Century. Timothy Snyder
A review of imperial and national politics in the Ottoman, Habsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern domains from
1815 through 1918. National movements from the Balkans to the Baltics, including the Greek, Serbian,
Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Czech, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian. Emphasis is placed on
interactions between local and imperial or international factors. Assignments include presentations and a final
research paper.
HIST 781/AMST733, The History of the Transpacific World. Kariann Yokota
A seminar introducing students to the emerging interdisciplinary field of Pacific Studies. The assigned readings
present a global perspective on the circulation of people, objects, and ideas in the region in their discussion of
the politics of material and cultural exchange in the transpacific world. The class focuses on how foreign
expansion from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century influenced the transpacific world and,
conversely, how this involvement shaped the development of American society and culture. We look specifically
at the study of the objects that circulated throughout the area and were eventually preserved in cabinets of
curiosity, universities, and museums in diverse locations such as Honolulu, London, and Salem, Massachusetts.
HIST 802/INRL658, Classic and New Approaches to International History. Patrick Cohrs
This graduate reading seminar appraises both classic and new approaches to international history. It focuses on
a close reading of influential contributions to the methodology and writing of international, diplomatic,
comparative, global, and transnational history from Thucydides to recently influential attempts to interpret the
evolution of the international system and international society. The underlying aim is to discuss which
approaches have advanced our understanding of fundamental questions and problems in a field that in the eyes
of some has become increasingly amorphous—and in which trends may have had the opposite effect. On this
basis, the seminar seeks to explore what are the new frontiers of scholarship.
HIST 803, Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Jay Winter
The course focuses on the emergence of human rights discourse in the twentieth century. It examines
intellectual, institutional, and legal frameworks within which human rights instruments were developed,
adopted, and deployed. Its focus is on the difficulty of specifying what human rights are through the
examination of key instances of their violation. Problems of definition of undocumented migrants' rights,
women's rights, and indigenous rights are addressed as well. Cases to be studied are drawn from Europe, the
United States, and Latin America.
HIST 840/AFST840, Colonialism in Africa. Robert Harms
Discussion of the theory and practices of colonialism in Africa. Topics include the motives for European
expansion, the scramble for Africa, early colonialism, direct and indirect rule, "colonization of the mind," the
colonial state, the developmental state, late colonialism, and paths to decolonization.
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INRL 549/E&RS652, The European Union's Contemporary Challenges. Tassos Belessiotis
Each year, the course addresses a different set of issues facing the EU. Recent issues have included trade policy,
regulation policy, building European monetary power, international trade policy and the WTO, and science,
precaution, and policy making. The course is taught by the EU fellow visiting the MacMillan Center.
INRL 572, U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century. Linda Jewell
Practices, institutions, and critical issues in public diplomacy explored from the perspective of a diplomatic
practitioner. Media relations, cultural diplomacy, and international broadcasting; the role of government
agencies beyond the State Department in formulating and carrying out public diplomacy; the impact of the
information revolution on traditional diplomacy.
INRL 610, Topics in Modern Middle East Studies. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar
The course is intended for students who plan to obtain the Graduate Certificate of Concentration in Modern
Middle East Studies. A major requirement of the course is attendance at weekly brown bag seminars hosted by
the Council on Middle East Studies, which include speakers from a variety of academic disciplines and other
backgrounds addressing political, economic, social, cultural, and historical issues across the Middle East/North
Africa region. Students attend the presentations and separate discussion sections, and fulfill writing
assignments.
INRL 650, Non-State Actors in World Politics. Susan Hyde
International relations is traditionally studied as interaction between nation-states. However, the role of nonstate actors such as international organizations, transnational advocacy networks, multinational corporations,
and terrorist networks has become an important element of world politics. After reviewing types of non-state
actors and how non-state actors fit into international relations theory, the course focuses on the extent to which
non-state actors are important in the international politics of specific issue areas such as human rights,
terrorism, globalization, and international environmental politics.
INRL 654, Violence: State and Society. Matthew Kocher
The course examines violence that occurs mainly within the territory of sovereign states. We focus on violence
as an object of study in its own right. For the most part, we look at violence as a dependent variable, though in
some instances it functioned as an independent variable, a mechanism, or an equilibrium. We ask why violence
happens, how it "works" or fails to work, why it takes place in some locations and not others, why violence takes
specific forms (e.g., insurgency, terrorism, mass killing), what explains its magnitude (the number of victims),
and what explains targeting (the type or identity of victims). Special attention to connecting theoretical
literatures in the social sciences with policy-relevant debates in government and nongovernmental service.
INRL 695, Strategies of World Order. Charles Hill
Tracking and evaluating major intellectual conceptions on which today's international politics, wars, revolutions,
diplomacy, and structures for peace and security are grounded. The continuing influence of ideas from the
works of Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Tacitus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant,
Burke, Marx, Tocqueville, and contemporary thinkers is examined in the context of how strategic thought has
developed in response to big societal transformations. Weekly sessions combine presentations, mini-lectures,
and seminar discussions. A substantial paper and a final examination.
LAW 21626, American Foreign Policy Issues. Paul Gewirtz
3 units. This seminar will examine current issues of American foreign policy. Much of the seminar will involve
conventional seminar-style discussion of issues and readings, at times with the guest participation of leading
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scholars and practitioners in the foreign policy field. Central to the seminar, however, will be a variety of
collaborative student projects intended to be part of ongoing foreign policy debates. Each student will be
expected to undertake a significant writing project to be determined in consultation with the instructor during
the course of the term. Enrollment is with the permission of the instructor. Requests for permission to enroll
should be received by December 14, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. (statements of interest to the Registrar's Office or to
registrar.law@yale.edu).
LAW 21634, Foreign Affairs and National Security Law. Oona Hathaway
4 units. This course will cover the central constitutional and statutory doctrines relevant to U.S. foreign affairs
and national security matters. It will address such topics as the distribution of foreign affairs and national
security powers among the three branches of the federal government, the scope of the treaty power, the
domestic implementation of international agreements, the status of international law in U.S. courts, and the
international and domestic laws that govern the use of armed force by the United States. We will discuss these
topics in the context of current events, including the detention and trial of those captured in the war on terror,
the use of military force in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the use of unmanned drones for targeted killing. Students
will also have the opportunity to write on recent developments in the law. Self-scheduled examination.
LAW 21652, Law of War: Humanitarian Law. W. Michael Reisman, Rüdige Wolfrum
2 units. This seminar will examine intensively the application of the jus ad bellum and the jus in bello in a
number of subject areas: the relevance of Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter; the right to self-defense; the role of
regional organizations; international law applicable to air and missile wrfare and in armed conflicts at sea,
respectively; international humanitarian law in non-international conflicts; and direct participation in hostilities.
In doing so the seminar will touch upon or deal with the Kosovo conflict, the intervention in Iraq; the Gaza War;
the conflict in Afghanistan and the Congo conflict. Examination or paper option.
PLSC 674, Military Power. Nuno Monteiro
The seminar explores the foundations, applications, evolution, and limits of military power. We read the main
foundational text on the topic—Clausewitz's On War—and pair it with contemporary readings that complement
it on the several aspects referred above. By the end of the course, students should have a general grasp of the
main questions pertaining to the use of military power and its relation to international and domestic politics.
PLSC 694, Field Seminar: International Security. Jason Lyall
The course examines how violence and the threat of its use shape relations between, and sometimes within,
states. It surveys the field's key theoretical debates and introduces the methodological approaches and data
that underpin contemporary research. Specific topics include: (1) explaining the origins, conduct, and outcomes
of inter- and intrastate wars; (2) the sources of military effectiveness; (3) the uses and limits of coercive
diplomacy; and (4) the effects of transnational forces and actors.
PLSC 678, Japan and the World. Jun Saito
The nature of Japan's international relations and its foreign policy. The historical development of Japan's
international relations since the late Tokugawa period, WWII and its legacy, domestic institutions and foreign
policy, Japan's relations with neighboring countries, the implications of these relations for the United States, and
interactions between nationalism and regionalism.
PLSC 683,Europe, the United States, and the Iraq Crisis. Jolyon Howorth
Examination of the contrasting relations between the main European powers and the United States in their
approaches to Iraq, in order to understand the divisions that attended the 2003 War and subsequent transfer of
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sovereignty. Topics incluce the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), the first Persian Gulf crisis (1990-91), the sanctions
regime (1991-2002), and the problems of peacekeeping and nation-building.
III. OTHER POSSIBLE COURSES
ANTH 572, Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and
Change. Michael Dove
An advanced seminar on the long tradition of social science scholarship on environmental perturbation and
natural disasters, the relevance of which has been heightened by the current global attention to climate change.
Topics covered include the academic literature on the social dimension of natural disasters, illustrated with a
case study of volcanic hazard; the discursive dimensions of environmental degradation, focusing on
deforestation and other case studies; climate change, including discursive dimensions at the global level; the
current debate about the relationship between resource wealth and political conflict, focusing on the "green
war" thesis, and the case of tropical forest commodities; and alternative perspectives on sustainable
environmental relations, based on interdisciplinary work and work in the humanities. Three-hour
lecture/seminar. Enrollment limited to twenty.
ANTH 773/NELC588/ARCG773, Civilizations and Collapse? Harvey Weiss
Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including
Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politico-economic vulnerabilities, resiliencies,
and adaptations in the face of abrupt climate change, anthropogenic environmental degradation, resource
depletion, "barbarian" incursions, or class conflict.
HIST 625/FREN611, Old Regime, Enlightenment, and Revolutionary France. Charles Walton
The seminar introduces students to the principal themes and debates in the study of Old Regime,
Enlightenment, and Revolutionary France. Topics include society, politics, institutions, Enlightenment, gender,
empire, the origins of the Revolution, radicalization and terror after 1789, and the Revolution's legacy.
INRL 691, Sites of Global Leadership. John Kane
The class asks what, in this globalizing world, are the sites and centers of leadership that might address common
problems and issues or, alternately, that might positively hinder them (on the premise that al Qaeda, for
example, also exerts effective leadership). It looks at leadership roles in such sites as the UN, World Bank, WTO,
various NGOs, business organizations, religious establishments, individual nations, and so on.
PLSC 605/PHIL700, Rethinking Sovereignty: Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism. Seyla Benhabib
Recently the "crisis" of sovereignty and the "end" of sovereignty have been discussed in law, political science,
and philosophy. Postnationalist, cosmopolitan, as well as neoliberal critics of sovereignty abound. The course
discusses alternative models of sovereignty, ranging from democratic iterations to popular constitutionalism,
and it considers the implications of these models for the definition and enforcement of rights. Readings include
Hobbes, Bodin, Austin, Schmitt, Kelsen, Habermas, Waldron, Pogge, and Aleinikoff.
SOCY 510, Religious Nationalism. Philip Gorski
"Religious nationalism" treated as more than a transitional phase. Readings and reflections about religious
nationalism, past and present, East and West; the normative issues the phenomenon raises. Religious roots of
Western nationalism; nationalistic propensities of different religious traditions; conditions under which religious
nationalism turns violent; and whether religion, nationalism, pluralism, and democracy are compatible.
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