Publications
Work Products
2006. Walker, Edward W. The Litvinenko Affair: A Chronology, Some Tentative Conclusions, and Some Speculations, version 2006-12-22. [2006_walker-litvin-chron.pdf] 14 pages, 171 KB
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Spring 2008. Sener Akturk. 15 Years after the “Collapse” of Soviet Socialism: The Role of Elite Choices, Class Conflict, and a Critique of Modernization Theory. [2008_02-akturk] 32 pages, 98 KB
Fall 2007. Tobias Holzlehner. Weaving Shuttles and Ginseng Roots: Commodity Flows and Migration in a Borderland of the Russian Far East. [Holzlehner-fall07.pdf] 48 pages, 307 KB
Summer 2007. Lussier, Danielle. The Nature of Mass Communist Beliefs
in Postcommunist Russian Political Space. [Lussier
sum 07.pdf] 46 pages, 397 KB
Summer 2007. Tanny, Jarrod. The Many Ends of Old Odessa: Memories of the Gilded Age in Russia’s City of Sin. [2007_tanny.pdf] 30 pages, 170 KB
Fall 2006. Lussier, Danielle. From Solidarity to Division: An Analysis of Lech Walesa's Transition to Constituted Leadership [2006_02-luss.pdf] 39 pages, 272 KB
Spring 2006. Walker, Edward W. Ethnic War, Holy War, War O' War: Does the Adjective Matter in Explaining Collective Political Violence? [2006_01-walk.pdf] 47 pages, 302 KB
Spring 2005. Zavisca, Jane and Michael Hout. Does Money Buy Happiness in Unhappy Russia? [2005_01-zavi.pdf] 65 pages, 362 KB
Fall 2004. Khudonazar, Anaita. The Other. [2004_05-khud.pdf] 25 pages, 251 KB
Fall 2004. Sanikidze, George and Edward W. Walker. Islam and Islamic Practices in Georgia. [2004_04-sani.pdf] 40 pages, 294 KB
Spring 2004. Vujacic, Veljko. Reexamining the "Serbian Exceptionalism" Thesis. [2004_03-vuja.pdf] 45 pages, 222 KB
Spring 2004. Spector, Regine A. The Transformation of Askar Akaev, President of Kyrgyzstan. [2004_02-spec.pdf] 37 pages, 191 KB
Spring 2004. Suny, Ronald Grigor. Why We Hate You: The Passions of National Identity and Ethnic Violence. [2004_01-suny.pdf] 52 pages, 233 KB
Spring 2003. Naumkin, Vitaly V. Militant Islam in Central Asia: The Case of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. [2003_06-naum.pdf] 71 pages, 282 KB
Spring 2003. Shaw, Emily. The Role of Social Identity in Resistance to International Criminal Law: The Case of Serbia and the ICTY. [2003_05-shaw.pdf] 33 pages, 189 KB
Spring 2003. Blank, Diana R. Fairytale Cynicism in the Kingdom of Plastic Bags: Mapping Power and Powerlessness in Chelnochovsk-na-Dniestre, Ukraine. [2003_04-blan.pdf] 23 pages, 372 KB
Spring 2003. Ishkanian, Armine. Is the Personal Political? The Development of Armenia's NGO Sector During the Post-Soviet Period. [2003_03-ishk.pdf] 37 pages, 303 KB
April 2003. Abrams, Neil A. Nationalist Mobilization and Imperial Collapse: Serbian and Russian Nationalism Compared, 1987-1991. [2003_02-abra.pdf] 48 pages, 205 KB
January 2003. Peskin, Victor and Mieczyslaw Boduszynski. Croatia's Moments of Truth: The Domestic Politics of State Cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. [2003_01-pesk.pdf] 45 pages, 309 KB
Spring 2002. Kurtsikidze, Shorena and Vakhtang Chikovani. Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey. [2002_03-kurt.pdf] 45 pages, 430 KB
Spring 2002. Wertheim, Suzanne. Language "Purity" and the De-Russification of Tatar. [2002_02-wert.pdf] 28 pages, 524 KB
Spring 2002. O'Dwyer, Conor. Civilizing the State Bureaucracy: The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Administration Reform in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic (1990-2000). [2002_01-odwy.pdf] 44 pages, 476 KB
Spring 2001. Kesler, Christel D. Inequality in Transition? Educational Stratification and German Unification. [2001_04-kesl.pdf] 47 pages, 288 KB
Spring 2001. Henry, Laura. The Greening of Grassroots Democracy? The Russian Environmental Movement, Foreign Aid, and Democratization. [2001_03-henr.pdf] 31 pages, 202 KB
Spring 2001. McGuire, Elizabeth. China, the Fun House Mirror: Soviet Reactions to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969. [2001_02-mcgu.pdf] 40 pages, 249 KB
Spring 2001. Pop-Eleches, Grigore. Whither Democracy? The Politics of Dejection in the 2000 Romanian Elections. [2001_01-pope.pdf] 24 pages, 175 KB
Winter 2000-2001. Astourian, Stephan H. From Ter-Petrosian to Kocharian: Leadership Change in Armenia. [2000_04-asto.pdf] 64 pages, 711 KB
Winter 1999-2000. Walker, Edward W. Russia's Soft Underbelly: The Stability of Instability in Dagestan. [2000_03-walk.pdf] 50 pages, 1,084 KB
Winter 1999-2000. State Building and the Reconstruction of Shattered Societies. 1999 Caucasus Conference Report. [2000_02-conf.pdf] 49 pages, 1,018 KB
Winter 1999-2000. Alieva, Leila. Reshaping Eurasia: Foreign Policy Stategies and Leadership Assets in Post-Soviet South Caucasus. [2000_01-alie.pdf] 32 pages, 459 KB
Summer 1999. Ram, Harsha. Prisoners of the Caucasus: Literary Myths and Media Representations of the Chechen Conflict. [1999_01-ram.pdf] 33 pages, 487 KB
Fall 1998. Bonnell, Victoria and George Breslauer. Soviet and Post-Soviet Area Studies. [1998_03-bonn.pdf] 33 pages, 392 KB
Summer 1998. The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas, and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Basin. 1998 Caucasus Conference Report. [1998_02-conf.pdf] 110 pages, 1,381 KB
Summer 1998. Abrahamian, Levon Hm. Mother Tongue: Linguistic Nationalism and the Cult of Translation in Postcommunist Armenia. [1998_01-abra.pdf] 29 pages, 456 KB
Winter 1997-1998. Nodia, Ghia. Causes and Visions of Conflict in Abkhazia. [1997_02-nodi.pdf] 55 pages, 498 KB
Fall 1997. Institutions, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict: International Experience and Its Implications for the Caucasus. 1997 Caucasus Conference Report. [1997_01-conf.pdf] 102 pages, 1,010 KB
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