17.506 | Fall 2024 | Graduate

Ethnic Politics

Suggested Books for Book Reviews and Final Projects

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Bertrand, Jacques. 2021. Democracy and Nationalism in Southeast Asia: From Secessionist Mobilization to Conflict Resolution. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Birnir, Jóhanna Kristín, and Nil Seda Şatana. 2022. Alternatives in Mobilization: Ethnicity, Religion, and Political Conflict. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Boone, Catherine. 2024. Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Bracic, Ana. 2020. Breaking the Exclusion Cycle: How to Promote Cooperation between Majority and Minority Ethnic Groups. Oxford University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Braun, Robert. 2019. Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Choi, Donghyun Danny, Mathias Poertner, and Nicholas Sambanis. 2022. Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination against Immigrants. Princeton Studies in Political Behavior. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Connelly, John. 2020. From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Dancygier, Rafaela M. 2017. Dilemmas of Inclusion: Muslims in European Politics. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Davenport, Lauren. 2018. Politics Beyond Black and White: Biracial Identity and Attitudes in America. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Davies, William, and Stanley Dubinsky. 2018. Language Conflict and Language Rights. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Fontana, Lorenza B. 2023. Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Green, Elliott D. 2022. Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Harpaz, Yossi. 2019. Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Jaffrelot, Christophe. 2021. Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy. Translated by Cynthia Schoch. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Joppke, Christian. 2021. Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Kalisman, Hilary Falb. 2022. Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Lewis, Janet I. 2020. How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Mazur, Kevin. 2021. Revolution in Syria: Identity, Networks, and Repression. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

McCauley, John F. 2017. The Logic of Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Africa. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

McClendon, Gwyneth H. 2018. Envy in Politics. Vol. 5. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Murali, Kanta. 2017. Caste, Class, and Capital. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Nathan, Noah. 2019. Electoral Politics and Africa’s Urban Transition. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Press]

Roessler, Philip. 2016. Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa: The Logic of the Coup-Civil War Trap. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Rosenberg, Andrew S. 2022. Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration. Princeton University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Sirin, Cigdem V., Nicholas A. Valentino, and José D. Villalobos. 2021. Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy. Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

Toha, Risa J. 2021. Rioting for Representation: Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries. Cambridge University Press. [Preview with Google Books]

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