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State, Society, and Political Behavior in Developing Contexts

3-0-9 units · Graduate

Examines the political behavior of citizens in developing countries and the question of why governmental performance remains poor in these contexts, despite citizen efforts, international aid, and civil society initiatives. Evaluates and builds on our current understanding of political behavior and state-society relations when democratic institutions are weak, state capacity is low, and regimes are changing. Explores these questions by drawing on new and old literatures from institutional, sociological, psychological, and political economy perspectives.

Fall 2004 · Nationalism

Topics

  • Introduction: Objectives and Requirements of the Course
  • Nationalism and Ethnicity: Primordial or Constructed?
  • Democratization and Nationalism
  • Economic Modernization as a Determinant of Nationalism
  • War, State-Building, and Nationalism
  • Nationalism and the Modern State
  • The Nation in Words: Language as a Source and Conduit of Nationalism
  • Class Presentations of Research Paper Proposals
  • Religious Nationalism: A Contradiction in Terms?
  • Post-Colonial Nationalisms: Does their Rootedness in Colonialism Matter?
  • New World Nationalisms: The Triumph of Civic Nationalism?
  • Class Presentation of Research Papers

Readings

  • Smith, Anthony. Nationalism and Modernism. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998. ISBN: 9780415063418.
    Required
  • Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000. ISBN: 9780393048810.
    Required
  • Kymlicka, Will. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780199240982.
    Required
  • Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780520053854.
    Required
  • Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983. ISBN: 9780801492631.
    Required
  • Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2007. ISBN: 9781557863683.
    Required
  • Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691010281.
    Required
  • Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521576499.
    Required
  • Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780674603196.
    Required
  • Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World . London, UK: Zed Books for the United Nations University, 1986. ISBN: 9780862325534.
    Required
  • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities . New York, NY: Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9780860915461.
    Required
  • Robinson, Dean E. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521626279.
    Required
  • Smith, Anthony. Nationalism and Modernism. New York, NY: Routledge, 1998, Introduction, chapters 1, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780415063418.
    Listed reading
  • Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapters 1, and 2. ISBN: 9780520053854.
    Listed reading
  • Patterson, Orlando. “Context and Choice in Ethnic Allegiance.” In Ethnicity: Theory and Experience . Edited by Nathan Glazer, and Daniel Moynihan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975, pp. 305-349. ISBN: 9780674268562.
    Listed reading
  • Greenfeld, Liah. Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, Introduction, chapters 1, 4, and 5. ISBN: 9780674603196.
    Listed reading
  • Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapters 1-4. ISBN: 9780393048810.
    Listed reading
  • Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapter 7. ISBN: 9780520053854.
    Listed reading
  • Gellner, Ernest. Nations and Nationalism . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983, chapters 2, 3, 4, and 8. ISBN: 9780801492631.
    Listed reading
  • Horowitz, Donald. Ethnic Groups in Conflict . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1985, chapter 3. ISBN: 9780520053854.
    Listed reading
  • Mann, Michael. “The Emergence of Modern European Nationalism.” In Transition to Modernity: Essays on Power, Wealth and Belief . Edited by John Hall, and I. C. Jarvie. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780521382021.
    Listed reading
  • Tilly, Charles. Coercion, Capital, and European States . Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 2007, chapters 3, 4, and 7. ISBN: 9781557863683.
    Listed reading
  • Finer, Samuel. “State and Nation-Building in Europe: The Role of the Military.” In The Formation of National States in Western Europe . Edited by Charles Tilly. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780691007724.
    Listed reading
  • Evera, Stephen Van. “Hypotheses on Nationalism and War.” International Security 18, no. 4 (Spring 1994): 5-39.
    Listed reading
  • Herbst, Jeffrey. States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780691010281. (Entire)
    Listed reading
  • Brubaker, Rogers. Nationalism Reframed . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996, Introduction, chapters 1, 2, and 4. ISBN: 9780521576499.
    Listed reading
  • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities . New York, NY: Verso, 1991. ISBN: 9780860915461. (Entire)
    Listed reading
  • Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780393048810.
    Listed reading
  • God’s Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992, chapters 1-3, 7, 10, and 12. ISBN: 9780801427558.
    Listed reading
  • The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994, chapters 1-2. ISBN: 9780520086517.
    Listed reading
  • Chatterjee, Partha. Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World . London, UK: Zed books for the United Nations University, 1986, chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6. ISBN: 0862325528.
    Listed reading
  • Snyder, Jack. From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict . New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2000, chapter 6. ISBN: 9780393048810.
    Listed reading
  • Kymlicka, Will. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, chapters 1, 5, 8, and 10-15. ISBN: 9780199240982.
    Listed reading
  • Walzer, Michael. “What does it Mean to be an American?” Social Research 57, no. 3 (Fall 1990).
    Listed reading
  • Robinson, Dean E. Black Nationalism in American Politics and Thought . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521626279. (Recommended)
    Listed reading
  • Faust, Drew Gilpin. The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South . Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. (Recommended)
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department 3-0-9 units

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