Rethinking Nation and Nationalism POMEPS Studies 14 — June 2, 2015 You couldn’t swing a dead imperialist last summer without hitting…
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Week in Review: Islamic State in Palmyra and Saudi Arabia
This week on the Monkey Cage (click names for articles): Toby Matthiesen of the University of Cambridge evaluates sectarianism after…
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*This post was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015. By David Siddhartha Patel, Crown Center for…
Continue ReadingThe Islamic State identity and legacies of Baath rule in Syria’s northeast
By Kevin Mazur, Princeton University * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nations and Nationalism” workshop hosted at the…
Continue ReadingFrom Jim Crow to ‘Gentlemen’s Agreement:’ The legal and soft barriers to equality and integration of citizen-Palestinians in Israel
By Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop,…
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By Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015 Who…
Continue ReadingLebanon’s national politics in the face of a changing region
By Christiana Parreira, Stanford University * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015. …
Continue ReadingWhose colonialism? The contested memory of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By Meghan Tinsley, Boston University *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015. In…
Continue ReadingKurds, state elites, and patterns of nationhood in Iraq and Turkey
By Serhun Al, University of Utah * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop held at…
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By Nicole F. Watts, San Francisco State University * This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop,…
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