Please purchase the books at your bookseller of choice. All articles and book chapters other than the books listed above will be available at the course website on learn@UW. January 29: Course Introduction and Concepts of Violence Edward Ball, “United States v. Dylann Roof,” New York Review of Books, March 9, 2017, pp. 4-8, available here Nicholas Barnes, “Criminal Politics: An Integrated Approach to the Study of Organized Crime, Politics, and Violence,” Perspectives on Politics 15:4 (2017), pp. 967-987. Youssef Cohen, Brian Brown, and A.F.K. Organski, “The Paradoxical Nature of State Making: The Violent Creation of Order,” American Political Science Review 75:4 (1981), pp. 901-910. Johan Galtung, “Violence, Peace, and Peace Research,” Journal of Peace Research 6:3 (1969), pp. 167-191. Francisco Guitiérrez-Sanín and Elisabeth Jean Wood, “What Should We Mean by a ‘Pattern of Political Violence’? Repertoire, Targeting, Frequency, and Technique,” Perspectives on Politics 15:1 (2017), pp. 20-41. Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 1-31. Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” excerpt reprinted from Catherine Besteman, Violence: A Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2002), pp. 13-18. RECOMMENDED Nicholas Sambanis, “What Is Civil War? Conceptual and Empirical Complexities of an Operational Definition,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 48:6 (2004), pp. 814-858. February 5: Logics of Violence Bernd Beber and Christopher Blattman, “The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion,” International Organization 67:1 (2013), pp. 65-104. Stathis Kalyvas, The Logic of Violence in Civil War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 146-209. Stathis Kalyvas, “The Ontology of Political Violence,” Perspectives on Politics 1:3 (2003), pp. 475-494. Robert Pape, “The Strategic Logic of Suicide Bombing,” American Political Science Review 97:3 (2003), pp. 343-361.
Stathis Kalyvas, “Ethnic Defection in Civil War,” Comparative Political Studies 41:8 (2008), pp. 1043-1068. Roger Petersen, Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 17-39. Max Bergholz, “Sudden Nationhood: The Microdynamics of Intercommunal Relations in Bosnia-Herzegovina after World War II,” American Historical Review 118:3, pp. March 5: Micro-and Meso-Level Determinants (and Dynamics) of Violence: Localities, Groups, and Individuals Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn, Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), pp. 1-119 SKIM. Thomas Hegghammer, “Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Variation in Western Jihadists’ Choice between Domestic and Foreign Fighting,” American Political Science Review 107:1 (2013), pp. 1-15. Macartan Humphreys and Jeremy Weinstein, "Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War," American Journal of Political Science 52:2 (2008), pp. Jason Lyall, "Are Coethnics More Effective Counterinsurgents? Evidence from the Chechen War," American Political Science Review 104:1 (2010), pp. 1-20. Sarah Parkinson, “Organizing Rebellion: Rethinking High-Risk Mobilization and Social Networks in War.” American Political Science Review 107:3 (2013), pp. 418–32. Jana Krause, “Non-Violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War: Evidence from Jos, Nigeria,” African Affairs 116:463 (2017): 261-283. Robert Braun, “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: The Collective Rescue of Jews in the Netherlands during the Holocaust,” American Political Science Review 110:1 (2016), 127-147. Farhad Khosrokhavar, Radicalization Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence trans. by Jane Marie Todd (New York: The New Press, 2017), pp. 1-22. RECOMMENDED Jan Pierskalla and Florian Hollenbach, “Technology and Collective Action: The Effect of Cell Phone Coverage on Political Violence in Africa,” American Political Science Review 107:2 (2013), pp. 207-224.