PS 195W – Revised Syllabus
Spring 2004
Section IV: Understanding and Solving National and Sub-National Conflict
Mar. 22 Horowitz, “Group Comparison and the Sources of Conflict” [ER]
Mar. 24 CanagaRetna, “A Nation at the Crossroads: Sri Lanka in the mid-1990s” [ER]
Mar. 26 Cohen, “India, Pakistan and Kashmir” [ER]; Thesis Statement and Bibliography Due
Mar. 29 Bieber, “Nationalist Mobilization and Stories of Serb Suffering: The Kosovo myth from 600th anniversary to the present” [ER]
Mar. 31 Power, “Srebrenica: Getting Creamed” [ER]
April 2 Buchanan, “Theories of Secession” [ER]
April 5 Lyon and Ucarer, “Mobilizing ethnic conflict: Kurdish separatism in Germany and the PKK” [ER]
April 7 Woldemikael, “The Cultural Construction of Eritrean Nationalist Movements” [ER]
April 9 Easter Break
April 12 Easter Break
April 14 Lemarchand, “The Crisis in the Great Lakes” [ER]
April 16 Adam, “The politics of ethnic identity: comparing South Africa" [ER]
Section V: Democracy and the Challenges of Cultural Pluralism
April 19 NO CLASS
April 21 Lichtenberg, “How liberal can nationalism be?” [ER]; Yack, “The myth of the civic nation” [ER]; Rough Drafts Due (optional)
April 23 Lijphart, “Consociational Democracy” [ER]
April 26 Ping, “Stability in Racially Divided Societies: Malaysia” [ER]
April 28 Darby, “Northern Ireland: Beyond the Time of Troubles” [ER]; Newman, “Northern Ireland: Ethnic Violence and Democracy” [ER]
April 30 Wimmer, “Democracy and Ethno-religious Conflict in Iraq” [ER]
May 3 Chua, selections from World on Fire [ER]
May 5 Yashar, “Contesting Citizenship: Indigenous Politics and Democracy in Latin America” [ER]
May 7 Anderson, “Fulfilling Prophesies: State Policy and Islamist Radicalism” [ER]
May 10 Legrain, “HAMAS: Legitimate Heir of Palestinian Nationalism?” [ER]; Research Paper Due