Richard Lewis Dixon Jr. (APUS): The Challenge and Complexities of Nation-State Sovereignty in the Era of 21st Century Internationalism. A review of Natural Resource Conflicts: Regimes, Markets and Transnational Governance in the 20th Century. Sandra Popiden (Bridgewater State): Globalization, Natural Resources, and Separatist Wars. Ahsan Ishaq Butt (Chicago): Goodbye or See You Later: Why States Fight Some Secessionists but Not Others. Do educated ethnic minorities choose nonviolent resistance? A review of Cultural Contestations in Ethnic Conflict by Marc Howard Ross. The End of Jacobinism: Immanuel Wallerstein on minorities, states, and violence. Eric Kaufmann (Birkbeck): Ethnic and State History as Determinant of Ethnic Fractionalization. Pade Badru (Louisville): Ethnic Conflict and State Formation in Post-Colonial Africa: A Comparative Study of Ethnic Genocide in the Congo, Liberia, Nigeria, and Rwanda-Burundi. Redrawing the Map: South Sudan may be independent, but new countries are becoming increasingly rare. Welcome to the second age of decolonialization: South Sudan's independence is a step toward borders in Africa, Asia and the Middle East that actually make sense. The world's most dangerous borders: Philip Walker on thirteen places you don't want to be stuck at. From Theory Talk, an interview with Saskia Sassen on sociology, globalization, and the re-shaping of the national. Lloyd Kramer on why the history of nationalism matters in a global age (and part 2 and part 3). Stephen Walt on how nationalism rules: It’s the most powerful political force in the world and ignoring it will come at a price. The cultural evolution: The baggage we carry from our ethnic and national backgrounds can keep people poor — but it can also change, and faster than you'd think.
