Olympia Summer Seminars Lectures and Reading
Dimitris Keridis
1. How ethnic is ethnic conflict? The Case of Yugoslavia and Cyprus
Readings:
1. V.P. Gagon "Ethnic Conflict as Demobilizer: The Case of Serbia"
http://www.ithaca.edu/gagnon/articles/demob/index.htm
2. V. P. Gagnon, Jr. “ Ethnic Nationalism and International Conflict: The Case of
Serbia,” International Security, Vol. 19 No. 3 (Winter, 1994-1995), pp. 130-166
3. Michael Hetcher, “From Class to Culture,” AJS Volume 110 Number 2
(September 2004): 400–45
2. How Islamic is Political Islam and Islamic Terrorism?
Readings:
1. Mahmood Mamdani on the Cold War, Political Islam, and the Roots of
Terrorism
http://www.asiasociety.org/policy-politics/internationalrelations/us-asia/mahmood-mamdani-cold-war-political-islam-and-roots-t
Fotini Christia
1. The Closest of Enemies: Alliance formation in Civil Wars
Reading:
1. Fotini Christia, “The Closest of Enemies: Alliance formation in Civil Wars”
working paper
2. Institutionalizing Cooperation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Reading:
1. Marcus Alexander and Fotini Christia, “Institutionalizing Cooperation: Public
Goods Experiments in the Aftermath of Civil War” working paper
3. Elite Capture of local institutions: Evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan
Reading:
1. Andrew Beath, Fotini Christia and Ruben Enikolopov, “Elite Capture of local
institutions: Evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan” working paper
4. Can we win hearts and minds? Evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan
Reading:
To be Announced
Ivan Ermakoff
1. State persecution and violence: A theoretical outline
Reading:
1. Nirenberg, David. 1996. Communities of Violence : Persecution of Minorities
in the Middle Ages. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Introduction,
chapter 1, chapter 4.
2. Raisons d'Etat
Reading:
1. Uvin, Peter. 1999. “Ethnicity and Power in Burundi and Rwanda: Different
Paths to Mass Violence,” Comparative Politics, 31(3): 253-271.
3. On behalf of the state: Agents and their rationales
Reading:
1. Hilberg, Raul. 1992. Perpetrators Victims Bystanders. New York: Harper. Pp.
20-74 (chapters 2-6), pp. 269-282 (endnotes).
4. Resistance and subversion
Reading:
1. Sémelin, Jacques. 1993. Unarmed against Hitler : Civilian Resistance in
Europe, 1939-1943; translated by Suzan Husserl-Kapit. Foreword by Stanley
Hoffmann. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. Chapters 7-8.
Ashutosh Varshney
1. Ethnic Conflict: Theories and Traditions of Inquiry
Reading:
1. Ashutosh Varshney, "Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflict" in Carles Boix and Susan
Stokes, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics, OUP 2007.
2. Is Nationalism Rational?
Reading:
1. Ashutosh Varshney, "Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Rationality",
Perspectives on Politics, March 2003.
3. Civil Society and Ethnocommunal Riots
Reading:
1. Ashutosh Varshney, "Ethnic Conflict and Civil Society: India and Beyond",
World Politics, April 2001.
4. The Foundations of India-Pakistan Rivalry and its Implications for Afghanistan Conflict
Reading:
1. “Lasting Injuries, Recuperative Possibilities: The Trajectory of an Insufficient
National Imagination", in Ashutosh Varshney and Daniel Herwitz, eds,
Midnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie, Penguin Viking
2009.
Stathis Kalyvas
1. Civil Wars
Reading:
1. Stathis Kalyvas, “Civil Wars”
2. The Dynamics of Violence in the Vietnam War
Reading:
1. STATHIS N. KALYVAS and MATTHEW ADAM KOCHER, “The Dynamics of
Violence in Vietnam: An Analysis of the Hamlet Evaluation System (HES)”
Journal of Peace Researc, vol. 46 No. 3 May 2009
3. International System and Technologies of Rebellion
Reading:
1. Stathis N. Kalyvas (Corresponding Author) and Laia Balcells, “International
System and Technologies of Rebellion: How the End of the Cold War Shaped
Internal Conflict”
4. Greek War of Independence
Reading:
To Be Announced
Please, note also the following readings for:
"Special presentation/lecture on Kosovo” by Paivi Nikander
(Wednesday, July 14, 21:00-22:00):
(i) Decentralization_in_Kosovo_I.pdf
(ii) Decentralization_in_Kosovo_II.pdf
(iii) localreforminKosovoKFOS2010.pdf
(iv) STATE OF CONSTRICTION-FINAL.pdf