SOAN 327: Ethnic Conflict
Fall 1999 MW 1:00-2:20 Alumni 109
Professor Thomas D. Hall
417 Alumni Hall, x7545, email:thall; web people.colgate.edu/thall
Office Hours: MWF 11:30 -12N; MW 2:30-3:30 & by appt.

Course Schedule -- ** See Webpage for Updates**

Last Updated 9/22/99
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Topics & Readings

Comments
1 8/30-9/1 I. Origins of Ethnic Diversity and Conflict; McNeill [all]; Hall & Laczko Reserves; G&H 1 & 2; IPSR Hall  
2 9/6-8 Case Studies: Modern G& H 3, 4; Ancient F&W [rsv] 2 & 3; Perry 3 [rec F&W 4; IPSR Friedman, Riggs, Tehranian]. 9 end add
3 9/13-15 Case Studies: nonstate, Perry 4, 5; [rec F&W 7]  
4 9/20-22 II. Doing Research: G&H 5; Perry 1 & 2 22 library session
5 9/27-29 Perry 4, 5 con't; add 6 & 7 Case TYPE due 27
6 10/4-6 III. State - Nonstate Global View; Wilmer 1 - 3 Case CHOICE due 6
7 10/11-13 Wilmer 3 - 5 11&12th Fall Brk
8 10/18-20 Wilmer 6 - 7; [rec F&W 1] ANN. BIB due 20
9 10/25-27 IV. State - Immigrant Relations: Laczko 1 - 2 27 S reg; 29 last drop
10 11/1-3 Laczko 3 - 5; G&H 6 & 7 "
11 11/8-10 Laczko 6 - 9; G&H 7 & 8 8 S reg; 10 Hall to SSHA
12 11/15-17 Preparation for Student Case Studies; Perry 8; G&H 9 17 Hall to AAA
13 11/22-24 V.Student Case Studies, first 4; TG BK 24-28th  
14 11/29-12/1 8 student case studies  
15 12/6-8 6 Last 4 student case studies; 8 sum & rev Last class
16 12/14-20 Final Exam Wednesday 12/15, 12-2pm  

ASSIGNED TEXTS:

G&H: Gurr, Ted R. & Barbara Harff. 1994. Ethnic Conflict in World Politics.

Laczko, Leslie S. 1996. Pluralism and Inequality in Quebec.

McNeill, William H. 1986. Polyethnicity and National Unity in World History.

Perry, Richard J. 1996. From Time Immemorial: Indigenous Peoples and State Systems.

Wilmer, Franke. 1993. The Indigenous Voice in World Politics.

Reserve Texts:

F&W: Ferguson, R. Brian, and Neil L. Whitehead, eds. 1992. War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare.

IPSR: International Political Science Review 19:3(July 1998):

Friedman, Jonathan. "Transnationalization, Socio-political Disorder and Ethnification as Expressions of Declining Global Hegemony." 233-250.

Hall, Thomas D. "The Effects of Incorporation into World-Systems on Ethnic Processes: Lessons from the Ancient World for the Contemporary World." 251-267.

Riggs, Fred. "Ethnic Nationalism and the World Systemic Crisis: A Preface." 227-229 and "The Modernity of Ethnic Identity and Conflict." 269-288.

Tehranian, Majid. "Migration, Identity, and World System Development." 289-303.

Laczko rsv: "Canada's Linguistic and Ethnic Dynamics in an Evolving World-System." From A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology, prepublication printout.