DAVID D. LAITIN
Born:
Department of Political Science
Telephone: (650) 725-9556 (office); (650) 954-4882
(mobile); 723-1808 (fax)
CURRICULUM
VITAE
EDUCATION
M.A.
Ph.D.
EMPLOYMENT
1968, 1972 Teaching
Assistant in Political Science,
1969 Instructor,
1970-71 Master:
1974-75 Lecturer:
Departments of Political Science at the
1975-87
Assistant Professor;
Associate Professor (1979); Professor (1984); Chairman (1986): Department of
Political Science, University of California, San Diego
1987--1998 Professor
of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics,
History and Culture,
1992-1998 The
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science and the College at the
1999-- Professor
of Political Science,
2003-- The
James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at
HONORS AND AWARDS
Phi Beta Kappa,
Master's Essay Prize,
Advanced to candidacy with
"distinction", May, 1972
Best dissertation in political theory,
Best dissertation 1974, Western Political
Science Association (co-winner)
First Annual Alumni Teaching Award, 1977,
Alumni of U.C.
Invitation to the Center for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences,
German Marshall Fund Research Fellow, 1984-85
Howard Foundation Fellow, 1984-85
Invitation to the Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton, N.J., 1989-90 (declined)
Awarded the William F. Kenan, Jr. Chair in
Political Science and the College at the
Elected to the
The Mary Parker Follett Prize for the best
article on politics and history from the Politics and History Section of the
American Political Science Association, for "Language and the Construction
of States", at the Annual Meeting, New York, 1995.
The Gregory M. Luebbert Memorial Award in
Comparative Politics, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the
American Political Science Association, for "The Tower of Babel as a
Coordination Game", at the Annual Meeting,
Invited as a long-term Resident to the
Invited to spend sabbatical year at Center
for International Affairs,
Listed in Who’s Who in the
The Gregory M. Luebbert Memorial Award in
Comparative Politics, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the
American Political Science Association, for "Explaining Interethnic
Cooperation" [co-authored with James Fearon] at the Annual Meeting,
The Heinz Eulau Award, for the best article
in the American Political Science Review in 1996, awarded by the
American Political Science Association, for "Explaining Interethnic
Cooperation" [co-authored with James Fearon] at the Annual Meeting,
The Mattei Dogan Award from the Society for
Comparative Research; the Gregory M. Luebbert Memorial Award from the
Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association; the
David Easton Award from the Foundations of Political Theory Section of the
American Political Science Association; and the Wayne Vucinich Book Prize from the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies -- for Identity in Formation: The
Russian-Speaking Populations of the Near Abroad.
Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000)
Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation
(2003-2004)
Elected Member of the
GRANTS
1973-74
1976
U.C. San Diego Summer Grant
from the Committee on Research
1977 National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend
1979-80 National Endowment for the
Humanities, Fellowship to engage in a year of field research pursuing the theme of "Religion and Political
Culture Among the Yoruba"
1984-85 German Marshall Fund Fellowship
and Howard Foundation Fellowship, to engage in a year of field research in
1987 Short
Term Fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies, to engage in a summer
of field research in
1988 Social
Science Research Council grant to organize conference on
"Institutionalization of the State" as
part of the "States and Social Structures" Project (with Ian Lustick)
1990 Spencer
Foundation grant to conduct field research in
1992-94 National Science Foundation,
two year grant to engage in field research in Estonia and to support related
research activities in the former Soviet Union, entitled "Nationality and
Politics: The Dismemberment of the Soviet Union" (in collaboration with
Jerry Hough)
1995-98 MacArthur Foundation, three year grant of $750,000
to direct research and graduate education in the field of peace and
international cooperation.
1995-96 John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellow.
1997 Fellow
at the
1997-99 Harry
Frank Guggenheim Foundation, two year grant of $70,000 to examine ethnic and
nationality relations in Moldova and Azerbaijan
1999 National
Science Foundation Grant, in collaboration with James D. Fearon, on
"’Minorities at Risk’ Data Base and Explaining Ethnic Violence"
2000-01 Carnegie
Corporation Grant, in collaboration with James D. Fearon, on "Ethnicization
of Civil Wars as a Problem for an International Gendarmerie" ($203,000)
2001-2004 National
Science Foundation Grant, in collaboration with James D. Fearon, to support
semi-annual meetings of the Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes (LiCEP)
2008-2009 National
Science Foundation Grant, “Muslim Integration into EU Societies: Comparative
Perspectives” ($344,000)
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Nations, States and Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Identity in Formation: the
Russian-speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998)
Language Repertoires and State
Construction in
Hegemony and Culture: The Politics of
Religious Change Among the Yoruba
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).
Politics, Language and Thought: The Somali
Experience (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1977)
Articles and Review Essays
"Immigrant Communities and Civil War" (2009) International
Migration Review (forthcoming)
“Integrating Qualitative and
Quantitative Methods” (2008). In Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology,
eds. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier and David Collier (Oxford: Oxford University
Press). (With James Fearon).
“American
Immigration Through Comparativists’ Eyes” (October, 2008) Comparative
Politics 41(1).
‘Culture,
Rationality and the Search for Discipline” (2007). In Gerardo L. Munck and
Richard Snyder Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (
“Religion,
Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model” (2008) (with Eli Berman), Journal of Public Economics
“Religion,
Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model” (2007). NBER, Working Paper
Series, 13725. Co-authored with Eli Berman.
“The Political, Economic and Organizational
Sources Of Terrorism” In Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza, eds.
(2007). Terrorism, Economic Development, and Political Openness
(
“Kto-Kogo:
A Cross-Country Study of the Origins
and Targets of Terrorism” In Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza, eds. (2007). Terrorism,
Economic Development, and Political Openness (
“Mann’s
Dark Side: linking democracy and genocide”. In John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder
The Anatomy of Power (
“The De-Cosmopolitanization of the Russian
Diaspora: A View from
“Culture Shift in a
“Hard Targets: Theory and Evidence on Suicide
Attacks”, NBER Working Paper 11740 (November 2005) (With Eli Berman).
“Civil War Narratives” Centro de Estudios
Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales, Working Paper 2005/218 (June 2005) (With James
Fearon).
“Ethnic Unmixing and Civil War” (Summer
2004) Security Studies 13 (4):
350-65. [Reprinted in Roy Licklider and Mia Bloom (2006) Living Together
after Ethnic Killing (London: Routledge]
“’Misunderestimating’ Terrorism: The State
Department’s Big Mistake” (with Alan Krueger) Foreign Affairs
(September/October 2004)
“Las contribuciones de la ciencia política”
(in a symposium with Giovanni Sartori and Josep M. Colomer) Política y
gobierno (Mexico) XI, 2 (2004); reprinted and translated as “Whither Political
Science? Reflections on Professor Sartori’s claim that ‘American-type political
science…is going nowhere. It is an every growing giant with feet of clay” in PS
(October 2004); reprinted in Revista
Española de Ciencia Política (
“Language Policy and Civil War” (2004) in
Philippe van Parijs, ed. Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity:
Proceedings of the Seventh Francqui Colloquium, Brussels, 28 February – 1 March
2003 (Brussels: de Boeck).
“A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change”
(with Avner Greif), American Political Science Review (November 2004)
“The Political Science
Discipline” in Edward Mansfield and Richard Sisson, eds. The Evolution of
Political Knowledge (
“
“Language Policy and Civil
War” in Philippe Van Parijs, ed. Cultural Diversity versus Economic
Solidarity,
“Neotrusteeship and
the Problem of Weak States” (with James Fearon) International Security
(Spring 2004)
“The Perestroikan
Challenge to Social Science” Politics & Society 31, 1 (2003):
163-84 [Reprinted in Kristen Renwick
Monroe (2005) Peerestroika!: The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science
(
“‘A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice” (with Rob Reich) in Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Language
Rights and Political Theory (
“Three Models of Integration and the Estonian/Russian
Reality” Journal of Baltic
Studies 34, 2, (2003): 197-223
“Ethnicity,
Insurgency, and Civil War” (with James Fearon) American Political Science
Review 97, 1 (February 2003): 75-90
“La Modelisation formelle
et la science politique americaine: les debats actuels” Sociologie et
Societés, 34, 1 (Spring 2002): 67-78 [and “Réponse aux commentaires pour
le numéro sur le choix
rationnel” pp. 155-63]
“Comparative
Politics: The State of the Subdiscipline” in Ira Katznelson and Helen V.
Milner, eds. Political Science: The State of the Discipline (
“Culture and
National Identity: ‘The East’ and European Integration” West European
Politics 25, 2 (April 2002): 56-80 [Reprinted in Peter Mair and Jan
Zielonka, eds. The Enlarged European Union: Diversity and Adaptation. (
“Language Conflict and Violence” Archives
Européennes de Sociologie 41/1 (2001) [Reprinted in Daniel Druckman and
Paul Stern, eds. International Conflict Resolution After the Cold War (
“Comment on
“Secessionist
Rebellion in the Former
“The Theoretical Contribution of Ethnic Conflict and
Civic Life” in Robert Hardgrave, Jr. “Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus
and Muslims in
Commonwealth and Comparative Politics 39.1 (March 2001) pp. 97-110
Commentary on Francisco J. Gil-White “Are Ethnic
Groups Biological ‘Species’ to the Human Brain?” Current Anthropology
42: 4 (August-October 2001) pp. 542-3
"Political Science and Nationalism"
in Alexander Motyl, ed. Encyclopedia of Nationalism (
"Violence and the Social Construction of
Ethnic Identities" (with James Fearon) in International Organization
(October, 2000)
"Post-Soviet Politics" in Annual
Review of Political Science, vol. 3 (2000)
"Language Conflict and Violence",
in Paul C. Stern and Daniel Druckman, eds., International Conflict
Resolution After the Cold War (National Academy of Sciences Press,
Washington, D.C., 2000); reprinted in European Journal of Sociology
(2000)
"What is a Language Community?" American
Journal of Political Science 44(1), 2000, pp.142-55
"Thinking a Way out of Karabakh"
(with Ronald Grigor Suny) in Middle East Policy 7, 1 (1999):145-76.
"Identity Choice Under Conditions of
Uncertainty" in Competition and Cooperation : Conversations With
Nobelists About Economics and Political Science, eds. James E. Alt,
Margaret Levi, and Elinor Ostrom (New York: Russsell Sage, 1999)
"The Cultural Elements of Ethnically
Mixed States" in State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn,
George Steinmetz, ed. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999)
"
"Toward a Political Science Discipline:
Authority Patterns Revisited" Comparative Political Studies 31, 4
(August, 1998), 423-443
"Liberal Theory and the Nation" Political
Theory 26, 2 (April, 1998), pp. 221-36.
"The Cultural Identities
of a
"Explaining Interethnic
Cooperation" American Political Science Review (with James D.
Fearon) 90, 4, (December, 1996), pp. 715-35.
"Nationalism and Language: A Post-Soviet
Perspective" in John A. Hall, ed. Ernest Gellner and the Theory of
Nationalism (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 135-57.
"Introduction" (pp. 2-3),
"Language and Nationalism in the
"Transitions to Democracy and
Territorial Integrity" chap. 1 in Adam Przeworski et al (1995) Sustainable
Democracy (
"Identity in Formation: The
Russian-Speaking Nationality in the Post-Soviet Diaspora" Archives
Européennes de Sociologie, 36, 2 (1995) [Printed earlier, in a slightly
different version, in Studies in Public Policy, no. 249, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow], 281-316.
"Language Planning in the Former
"The Qualitative-Quantitative
Disputation", a symposium with James Caporaso, David Collier, Ronald
Rogowski, Sidney Tarrow, Gary King, Robert Keohane, and Sidney Verba, in American
Political Science Review 89, 2 (June, 1995), pp. 454-56.
"Russian Nationalism in Post-Soviet
"Political Culture at 30" American
Political Science Review 89, 1 (March, 1995), pp. 168-73.
"National Revivals and Violence" Archives
Européennes de Sociologie (Spring 1995) [Translated into Spanish and
published in Sistema 132/33, June, 1996] pp. 3-43.
"The
"Marginality: A Micro Perspective" Rationality
and Society (1995), 7, 1 (January), pp. 31-57
"Les
Russophones d'Estonie" Liber 20 (December, 1994), pp. 7-9.
"Language and the Construction of
States: The Case of
"The Russian-Speaking Nationality in
"The Game Theory of Language
Régimes" International Political Science Review 14, 3, (1993), pp.
227-40.
"Migration and Language Shift in Urban
"Language Normalization in
"Language, Ideology and the Press in
"Language and the State:
"Structure and Irony in Social
Revolutions" Political Theory (20, 1, 1992) (with Carolyn Warner),
pp. 147-51
"The Four Nationality Games and Soviet
Politics" Journal of Soviet Nationalities, 2, 1 (Spring, 1991), pp.
1-37.
"The National Uprisings in the
"What Language Future for
"Language Choice Among Ghanaians" Language
Problems and Language Planning 15, 2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 139-61.
"The Economy", in Somalia: A
Country Study 1992 edition (
"Linguistic Conflict in Catalonia"
in Modest Reixach, Sociologia de la Llengua, Area 2 of the Segon
Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana (Girona, Spain: 1991), pp.
274-83
"Language Policy and Political Strategy
in
"Linguistic Revival: Politics and
Culture in
"Hegemony and the State" States
and Social Structures Newsletter (Social Science Research Council),
(Winter, 1989), (with Ian Lustick)
"Language Conflict: Transactions and
Games in
"Catalan Elites and Language
Normalization" International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
9, 4 (October, 1989) (with Carlota Solé), pp. 1-26.
"Language Games" Comparative
Politics 20, 3 (April, 1988), pp. 289-302.
"Political Culture and Political
Preferences" American Political Science Review 82, 2 (June, 1988),
pp. 589-93.
"Security, Ideology and Development on
"Linguistic Conflict in
"Politics, Feminism and the Ethics of
Caring", in
"
"Aplicatión
de la Teoría de los Juegos a las Actitudes y Política Lingüísticas. El Caso de
Inmigrantes y Autóctonos en Cataluña," Papers, Revista de Sociologia
(Barcelona, Spain), (with Carlota Solé), (1986).
"Conflicto lingüístico en Cataluña. Una
explicación alternativa", Sistema, Revista de Ciencias Sociales, (
"The American--Somali
"Hegemony and Religious Conflict,"
in T. Skocpol et. al., eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1985)
"
"Changes in the Idea of the Somali
Nation," in Horn of
"Rational Choice and Culture," in
F. Eidlen, ed., Festschrift for Henry Ehrmann (New York: Praeger, 1983).
"The Ogaadeen Question and Changes in
Somali Identity" in V. Olorunsola and D. Rothchild, eds., State Versus
Ethnic Claims: An African Policy Dilemma (Boulder, Colorado: Westview
Press, 1983).
"Linguistic Dissociation: A Strategy for
"Capitalism and Hegemony: Yorubaland and
the International Economy," International Organization, 36, 4
(Autumn, 1982), 687-714.
"The Sharia Debate and the Origins of
"Conversion and Political Change: A
Study of (Anglican) Christianity and Islam Among the Yorubas in Ile-Ife" Political
Anthropology Yearbook (N.J.: Transaction, 1982).
"Military Rule and National Secession:
"The OAU and the Ogaadeen Question:
Towards a Solution" Proceedings of the First International Congress of
Somali Studies, Mogadisho, (with O. Ojo) (July, 1980)
"
"Language Choice and National
Development: A Typology for
"The War in the Ogaden: The Implications
for Siyaad's Role in Somali History," Journal of Modern African Studies,
17, 1 (1979), pp. 95-116.
"
"Bearing the Burden: A Model of
Presidential Responsibility in Foreign Policy," with Peter Cowhey, International
Studies Quarterly 22, No. 2 (June, 1978), 267-96..
"Religion, Political Culture and the
Weberian Tradition," World Politics (July, 1978), pp. 563-92.
"Revolutionary Change in
"Somali Territorial Claims in
International Perspective,"
"The Political Economy of Military Rule
in
"Leadership: A Comparative
Perspective," with Ian Lustick in International Organization
(Winter, 1974), pp. 89-118.
"Somali Nitty Gritty,"
Book Reviews
Review of Soldiers and Kinsmen, by Ali
Mazrui. Western Political Quarterly (June, 1976).
Review of Conflict in
Review of Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency
of Harry S.Truman, 1945-1948, by Robert J. Donovan, in The San Diego Union
(November 20, 1977).
Review of Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor,
Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network, by Leonard Mosley, in
The San Diego Union (April 16, 1978).
Review of Political Language: Words That
Succeed and Policies That Fail, by
Review of War Clouds on the Horn of
Review of Wittgenstein and Political
Philosophy: A Reexamination of the Foundations of Social Science, by John
Danford, in American Political Science Review, (March, 1980).
Review of Linguistic Diversity and Language
Belief in
Review of A Modern History of
Review of Language and Dialect Atlas of
Review of Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism:
The Case of Sayyid Mahammad 'Abdille Hasan, by Said Samatar in Bulletin of the
Review of The Foundations of the South
African Cheap Labour System, by Norman Levy in Sociology: Review of New Books.
Review of L. Dabene et al Status of Migrants'
Mother Tongues, in International Migration Review, XIX, 3 (Fall, 1985).
Review of J. McCann From Poverty to Famine in
Review of A.I. Samatar, Socialist
Review of Harry Huttenbach, Soviet
Nationality Policies, in Russian History (Winter, 1990)
Review of Anatoly Khazanov, After the
Review of Alex Inkeles, National Character: A
Psycho-Social Perspective, in Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 28, 3
(Winter 1998), 429-31.
Review of James C. Scott, Seeing Like a
State, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1999
Review of Hilary Pilkington, Migration,
Displacement and Identity in Post-Soviet
Review of Robert Bates et al, Analytic
Narratives, in Japanese Journal of Political Science, 2000.
Review of Michael Hechter, Containing
Nationalism, in American Journal of Sociology. 106, no. 3, (2000)
Review of Anthony D. Smith: Myths and
Memories of the Nation, Review of Politics, 63, no. 1, (2001)
Review of Donald Horowitz. The Deadly Ethnic Riot, Comparative Political Studies, 34, 9
(2001):1092-1099.
Review of Randall Stone, Lending
Credibility, Comparative Economic Studies 45, no. 1 (2003): 104-108
Review of Rotimi Suberu, Federalism and
Ethnic Conflict in
Review of John Goldthorpe, On Sociology,
Archives Européennes de Sociologie 45, 4 (2004): 411-16
Review of Georgi Derluguian, Bourdieu’s
Secret Admirer in the Caucasus”, New Left Review 38, March/April 2006
[Translated and reprinted in La Revue internationale des Libres & des
idées, Septembre-octobre 2007, No. 1]
Review of Walter Enders and Todd Sandler, The
Political Economy of Terrorism, Journal of Economic Literatures, XLIV
(September 2006), pp. 757-760.
Review of Randall Collins, Violence: A
Micro-sociological Theory Science,
Review of Paul Nugent,
Conference Papers
1973: "Politics, Education and Language
Relativity: A Study of the Somalis in
1975: "Language and Political
Thought," Western Political Science Association,
1976: "
1977: "
1978: "A Classification of Strategies
Designed to Overcome Dependency and Economic Backwardness," paper
presented to the Institute for World Order Colloquium on the New International
Economic Order.
1978: "The War in the Ogaden,"
paper presented to African Studies Association,
1978: "Dependent Variables, Levels of
Analysis and the Development of a Curriculum for International Political
Economy", presented with P. Cowhey at
the
International Political Economy, organized by
J. Rosenau and S. Strange.
1979: "Language Choice and National
Development: A Typology for
1980: "Conversion and Political Change:
A Study of (Anglican) Christianity and Islam Among the Yorubas in
Ile-Ife", presented at (a) the University of Ife seminar series of the
Department of Political Science; (b) the Institute of African Studies, the
University of Ibadan; (c) the American Political Science Association, Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C.; and (d) the University of Indiana, Colloquium in
African Studies.
1980: "Military Rule and National
Secession:
1980: "The OAU and the Ogaden Question:
Towards a Solution" (with O. Ojo), presented at the First International
Congress of Somali Studies,
1980: "A Thick Description of Abner
Cohen's Hausa Migrants" presented to the U.C.S.D. Department of
Anthropology, Faculty Colloquium.
1981: "The International Economy and
State Formation Among the Yoruba in the 19th Century", prepared for the
American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting,
1981: "The Ogaadeen Question and Changes
in Somali Identity", presented at the Rockefeller Foundation's Conference
Center, Bellagio, Italy at a Conference on "Ethnic Self-Determination and
State Coherence: African Dilemmas", organized by V. Olorunsola and D.
Rothchild.
1981: "The Sharia Debate and the Origins
of Nigeria's
1981/2: "Linguistic Dissociation: A
Strategy for Africa," presented to a Conference organized by W. O'Barr,
Duke University, Durham, N.C. (1981); and to a Symposium at the Institute for
Africanists at the University of Cologne (1982).
1982: "The New Media in State and
National Development: The Changing Context of Somali Poetry," presented at
an SSRC Conference, organized by B. Jules-Rosette, UCSD, La Jolla, CA.
1982: "The Reagan Foreign Policy in the
Horn of Africa," talks delivered to (a) The Berkeley-Stanford Joint Africa
Program Annual Conference, and (b) "Africa: Continuity and Change in the
1980s," conference organized by M. Clough and H. Kitchen, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterrey, CA.
1982: "Changes in the Idea of the Somali
Nation," paper delivered to the Symposium, "Horn of Africa: From
'Scramble to
1982: "Hegemony and Religious
Conflict," presented to the American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting,
1983: "Somali Government and
Politics," presented at the Second International Congress of Somali
Studies,
1982/3: "Hegemony and Culture,"
Summary of book manuscript presented to Regents Lecturer Kenneth Burke, UCSD,
May, 1982; presented to the Social Science Study Group, Institute of
International Affairs,
1983: Discussant on panel concerned with
"Crisis in the Horn," at the UCLA Conference on African Crisis Areas
and American Foreign Policy.
1983: "Some Trends in
1985: "Actituds Davant la Llengua: Aplicacio
de la Teoria dels jocs al cas dels immigrants i Autoctons de Catalunya"
presented at the
1985: "Political Linguistics in Catalonia
After Franco" presented to the American Political Science Association,
1985/6: "Language Games: Comparative
Speculations" presented at Cornell University, Center of International
Studies (November, 1985); Stanford University, Department of Political Science
(May, 1986); and the International Sociological Association, New Delhi,
(August, 1986) (read en absentia), the Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University, (October, 1986), and the Department of Political Science,
University of Chicago, December, 1986.
1986: "Linguistic Conflict in
1986: "Transactions and Games: Language
Policy in
1987: "The Catalan Language Under
Franco," UCSD Conference on Franco
1987/8: "Politics and Culture in
1988: "Linguistic Revival: Politics and
Culture in
1988:
"Cultura y Ciencia Política en el estudio de las Administraciones
Autónomas", Asociacion Madrileña de Antropologia
1989: "Explaining Language Outcomes in
India" presented to the Annual Seminar of the Comparative Study of
Ethnicity and Nationalism at the University of Washington, Jackson School of
International Studies (May), at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political
Science Association, Quebec (June), and at the Harvard University Seminar in
Comparative Politics (April, 1990)
1989:
"Immigrants russos a Estònia: és different llur situació dels andalusos a
Catalunya?" Paper presented for the "Seminari Interdisciplinari Sobre
l'Aplicació de la teoria dels jocs a les ciències socials" 14 December,
1989, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
1990: "A Political Perspective on
Language Repertoires in
1990: American Political Science Association,
Annual Meeting, Chair of Panel: "Dilemmas of
1990: "Toward a Formal Theory of
Marginal Populations", paper presented to the SSRC working group on
"The Security of Marginal Populations", November.
1991: "The National Uprisings in the
1991: "The Stable Boundaries of the
Political", paper presented at the African Studies and
1991: "Soviet Nationalities and
Comparative Politics", paper presented at the
1991: "The
1991: "Marginality: A Micro
Perspective" (Paper delivered to the SSRC Committee on the Security of
Marginal Populations,
1991: "The Game Theory of Language Regimes"
(Paper delivered to the International Political Science Association meeting on
International Language Regimes,
1991: "Language and the Construction of
States: The Case of Catalonia in Spain" (Paper presented to the Committee
on Social Thought, Washington University; and to the Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Department of Political Science).
1992: "Multinationalism and
Democratization" (Paper presented to the East-West Systems Transformation
group, chaired by Adam Przeworski, at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center,
Bellagio, Italy, for inclusion in a jointed authored book, provisionally
entitled "Sustainable Democracy", Cambridge University Press)
1992: "A Formal Theory of National
Identity" (Presentation sponsored by IREX and presented at the
1992-93: "Nationalism and Violence"
(Paper presented to the Harry F. Guggenheim Foundation, conference in Madrid,
1992; at the Instituto Esdudios Avanzados, Madrid, 1993; and the Program in
Post-Soviet Studies, U.C. Berkeley, April 1995)
1993: "The Cultural Identities of a
European State" (Paper presented at Harvard University, May 1993; the
University of Minnesota, May, 1993; UCLA, at a conference "Quo Vadis
Europa, 2000?" , April 1995; and at the Ford Seminar at the University of
Pennsylvania, May, 1995.)
1993: "Russian Nationalism in
Post-Soviet Estonia, Congreso Internacional, Os Nacionalismos en Europa,
Pasado y Presente, held at
1994: "Identity in Formation: The
Russian-Speaking Nationality in the Post Soviet Diaspora", presented at
the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, 1994; the American
Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, November, 1994; at the
University of Connecticut, October, 1994; at Harvard University, Russian
Research Center, October, 1994; at the University of Wisconsin, Political
Science Department, July, 1994; at MIT, Center for International Studies,
October, 1994; at the University of California, Santa Barbara, April, 1995)
1995: "Language Tipping: Ethnic and
Linguistic Politics in the Former Soviet Union", presented at UCLA,
Political Economy Seminar, April, 1995; and at
1995: "Explaining Inter-Ethnic
Cooperation" (with James Fearon), presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association,
1995: "Nationalism and Language: A
Post-Soviet Perspective", Paper presented at the Central European University,
Centre for the Study of Nationalism, Prague, December; presented in All Souls
College, Oxford University, December, 1995; and at the Political Science
Department, Columbia University, May, 1996.
1995: "The Cultural Elements of
Ethnically-Mixed States: Nationality Re-Formation in the Soviet Successor
States" paper presented at a MacArthur Symposium at the University of
California, Berkeley, November, 1995; at the School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, December, 1995; at the Graduate Symposium in
Political Science, Rugters University, in April, 1996; and at the Ford
Foundation Eastern Europe history project at the University of Michigan, May,
1996. This paper is slated for publication in a volume to be edited by George
Steinmetz, Culture and the State, submitted to Cornell University Press.
1995: "Ethnic Cleansing, Liberal
Style", paper presented to the Weyland Colloquium at Brown University,
October, 1995; at the Harvard/MIT MacArthur Symposium in February, 1996; at the
University of Wisconsin MacArthur Seminar in April, 1996; and Loyola University
(Chicago), November, 1996.
1996: "
1996-98: "Identity Choice Under
Conditions of Uncertainty", paper presented at faculty seminars at
1997-98: "National Heterogeneity and
Democracy" paper presented at faculty seminars at
1998: "The Political Economy of
Identity" paper presented as part of the Ford Foundation Undergraduate
Lectures in political economy, at
1999: "
2000: "Ordinary Language and External
Validity: Specifying Concepts in the Study of Ethnicity" (with James
Fearon), paper presented to the American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting,
2000: "Comparative Politics: State of
the Sub-Discipline", paper presented to the American Political Science
Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (Scheduled to be published in an
edited volume on The State of the Discipline, published by the American
Political Science Association.
2000: "Transitions to Independence and
Commitments to Minorities" (with James Fearon), paper presented to a
symposium at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA., and a faculty seminar at
Cornell University (October).
2001-2003: “Sons of the Soil” (with James
Fearon), paper presented at workshops at the University of Washington, Yale
University, UCSD, Lake Forest College, the Social Science History Association
Annual Meeting, UCLA
2002-2003: “Kto-Kovo: A Cross-Country
Study of the Origins and Targets of Terrorism” (with Alan B. Krueger), paper
developed from Conferences on the Movement of Suicide Bombing, held at Stanford
University, November 2002, and September 2003; delivered at the National Bureau
of Economic Research (September 2004)
2002-2005: “Rational Martyrs: Evidence from
Data on Suicide Attacks” (with Eli Berman), paper developed from Conferences on
the Movement of Suicide Bombing, held at Stanford University, November 2002,
and September 2003, presented at the Charles Tilly seminar on Contentious
Politics, Columbia University; State University of New York at Buffalo; Cornell
University; the Rational Models Seminar at the University of Chicago; and Lewis
and Clark College.
2002-2005 “Random Narratives on Civil War”,
paper delivered to seminars at
2006: “Immigrant Communities and Violence”,
paper presented at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31-September 3.
2007: “Civil War Terminations”, paper in
collaboration with James Fearon presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL; at the Instituto Juan
March de Estudios e Investigaciones, November 2007; at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, February 2008; at the University of Iowa, February 2008;
at Princeton University, April 2008.
2007: "Cultural Distance: A Constraint on
Mimicry?" Paper prepared for a
conference on Mimicry
In Civil Wars: The strategic use of identity signals, organized by Diego
Gambetta, 7-8 December 2007, Collège de France, Paris
Consultancy and Community and University
Service
1973/4: Member of University Review Panel
examining
1975/6: Lectures on African politics to AAUW
and San Diego Association of Retired professionals
1978: Provided Formal Briefing at the State
Department to Mr. D. Peterson, newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to
1980: Chairman of the Review Committee
examining Undergraduate Education at the
1980: Member of the U.C.S.D. Subcommittee on
Undergraduate Courses of the Committee on Educational Policy
1980/84 : Undergraduate Advisor, Department
of Political Science,
1980/3: Member of Program Committee and
Education Committee of the San Diego World Affairs Council
1980: Consultant to MacMillan Corporation,
for "
1981: Testified Before House of
Representatives' Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Allocation to the Horn of
1980/1: Member of Advisory Committee to
Reform Curriculum of "Urban Studies and Planning" at
1982: Op-Ed Article, "
1983: Testified Before House of
Representatives' Appropriations Committee. Prepared statement is published in
the Congressional Record
1983/85:
1983: Visiting Honors Examiner,
1984: Referee for the MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship Program
1984: Referee for two National Science
Foundation Grant Proposals
1987: Organized a Conference at UCSD on
"Game Theory and the Ethnography of Speaking" (June, 1987)
1988: Consultant for Personnel matters,
1988: Organized an SSRC-sponsored Conference
at Wilder House, University of
1989: External Review Committee,
1990-91: Served on two NSF Social Science
Division panels
1992: Lectured to
1995: Editorial Board Member, Rationality
and Society
1995--: Co-coordinator (with Gary Becker and
Edward Laumann) of Rational Choice Models in the Social Sciences Workshop at
the
1996-97: Chair of the Faculty Senate Honorary
Degrees Committee
2001-2002 – Freshman Academic Advisor,
2001-2002 – Chair of Departmental Search Committee
(Comparative Politics)
2001-2003 – Convener for Graduate Program in
Comparative Politics,
2002-2003 – Omnibus Search Committee for Department
and Chair of Divisional Search Committee in African Studies
2002--: Editorial Board Member, European
Journal of Sociology
2003--: Editorial Board Member, International
Studies Quarterly
2003-5: Consultant to Booz, Allen and
Hamilton; to CENTRA Technologies, and to SAIC – for the Political Instability
Task Force; and on issues of insurgency and terrorism
2004: Participated in the debriefing of the
Special Representative of the Secretary General for Somalia, under auspices of
the International Peace Academy
2003-2007: Department of Political Science
Omnibus Search Committee; Interdepartmental Search Committee in China Studies;
Chair of the International, Comparative and Area Studies Search Committee on
Asia.
2005-2006: Consultant to the Worldwide
Incidents Team Brain Trust group at the National Counterterrorism Center
Professional Activities
American Political Science Association
Founding Member, Somali Studies International
Association (1978)
Visiting Fellow, ESADE,
Social Science Research Council, Member Joint
Committee on African Studies (1988-90)
Visiting Lecturer, Autonomous
Social Science Research Council, Member of
Planning Group for a Research Project on "Marginal Populations"
(1990-1991)
American Political Science Association,
Section Chair for the 1991 Annual Meeting, for "Politics in Developing
Areas"
American Political Science Association, Chair
of Committee to choose winner of the "Heinz Eulau" award for best
article in APSR
American Political Science Association,
President of Comparative Politics Subsection (1993-95)
American Political Science Association,
Executive Committee of Political Economy Subsection (1992-94)
American Political Science Association,
Committee to choose winner of "Ralph Bunche" award for the best book
in the field of cultural or ethnic pluralism (1995-96)
American Political Science Association,
Elected for a Three Year Term to serve on the Executive Council of the
Association (1996-99).
American Political Science Association,
Appointed to serve on the Administrative Committee of the Executive Council of
the Association (1998-99)
National Science Foundation, Appointed to
serve on the Political Science Panel (1998-2000)
Officer Selection Committee, American
Political Science Association (2001-2002)
American Political Science Association, Task
Force on Terrorism (2004--)
American Political Science Association,
Vice-President (2005-2006).
Visiting Professor, Institut d’Etudes
Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po), November-December 2007 and 2008
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