Nationalism and Violence in Two Post-Soviet Republics: Azerbaijan and Moldova The goal of my HFG grant was to account for variation in the degree of violence in the critical moment of state breakdown in the former Soviet Union. At this…
“None of Us Dared Say Anything”: Mass Killing in a Bosnian Community During World War II and the Postwar Culture of Silence …view that sees nationalism leading to violence, I discovered that the upheavals wrought by local killing created dramatically new perceptions of “ethnicity”—of oneself, supposed “brothers,” and those perceived as “others.” As a consequence,…
Toward a Transnational History of the Origins of World War I …the importance of nationalism to Europeans in 1914, it assumes that nationalism was but one among many identities. Among its conclusions are that while nationalism certainly existed in Europe it…
The Middle Eastern Military as a Factor in Domestic and Regional Conflict and Violence: A Case Study of the Iranian Army …or groups of officers were mainly significant as an expression of radical nationalism; and that elements comparable to the “Free Officers” of the Arab world may be identified in the…
A Sea of Blood and Tears: Ethnicity, Identity and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Volhynia, Ukraine 1941-44 …occupation, in order to uncover their motivations for participation in violence. Additionally, the project questions the role of ideologies, whether ethno-nationalism or Soviet communism, in influencing the actions of average…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Reactive and Proactive Aggression Clifton R. Emery (School of Social Welfare, Yonsei University). Beijing-Seoul Families and Neighborhoods Study Ilya V. Gerasimov (Center for the Study of Nationalism and Empire). Ethnic…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …of California, Berkeley). Conflicted Childhoods: Fighting Over Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone 2002 Asad Ali Ahmed (Anthropology, University of Chicago). Adjudicating the Nation, Disciplining Islam: Blasphemy Trials and Islamic Nationalism…
Ethnic Violence vs. Imperial Segregations: Multinational Criminality in the Russian Imperial City as a Space of Conflict and Cooperation For over two decades, I’ve been studying a variety of topics in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. As I see now, all of them have…
Our Work …of subjects, including: War Terrorism Crime Family and intimate-partner relationships Climate instability and natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation’s work is advanced…
Programs …natural resource competition Racial, ethnic, and religious conflict Political extremism and nationalism The Foundation supports research that investigates the basic mechanisms in the production of violence, but primacy is given…
