Faculty Guide

Title

Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics

Coexistence and Conflict
International and Global Studies
Politics
Russian and East European Studies

Expertise

Comparative politics; Ethnic politics; Balkan politics; Ethnic conflict and conflict management.

Profile

Currently participating in efforts to foster inter-ethnic accommodation and prevent further ethnic conflict in the Balkans through association with the international NGO. Project on Ethnic Relations: (Princeton, NJ). Directs the Brandeis University Research Circle on Democracy and Cultural Pluralism.

Awards and Honors

International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Short-Term Travel Grant for field research in Serbia; Project examining "Prospects for Democratic Politics in Serbia After Kosovo". (2006)

Co-Winner, for "The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina", Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association for "the best scholarly work in political science, published in 1999, which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism". (2000 - 2001)

MacArthur Foundation Program on Peace and International Cooperation. Research and Writing Grant for project on "Fostering Ethnic Accommodation." (1998 - 2001)

Nominee, Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (for War or Peace?) (1998)

Open Society Institute. Grant to support efforts to encourage Western support for civic institution-building activities in Yugoslavia. (1998)

Courses Taught

POL	127b	Seminar: Managing Ethnic Conflict
POL	151a	Seminar: Cultural Pluralism and Democratic Governance
POL	213a	Graduate Seminar: Comparative Political Institutions and Public Policy
POL	213b	Graduate Seminar: Selected Topics in Comparative Politics

Scholarship

Burg, Steven L./Lachen T. Chernyha. "Devolution and Democracy: Identity, preferences and voting in the Spanish State of Autonomies [Substantially revised , with new methodology]." Identity Politics Working Group, Center for International Studies, MIT. November 5, 2008.

Burg, Steven L./Lachen T. Chernyha. "Devolution and Democracy: Identity, preferences and voting in the Spanish `State of Autonomies,." Conference on Rethinking Ethnicity and Ethnic Strife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Central European University, Budapest. September 25-27, 2008.

Burg, Steven L.. The Balkans in Europe: Challenges in Integrating Multiethnic States. Project on Ethnic Relations. Princeton: 2008.

Burg, Steven L.. "NGOs and Ethnic Conflict: Lessons from the Work of the Project on Ethnic." Negotiation Journal 23. 1 (2007): 7-33.

Burg,Steven, with Paul S. Shoup. The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1999.

Burg,Steven (principal author), Barnett Rubin, ed. Comprehensive Peace in Southeast Europe: Conflict Prevention in the South Balkans. The report of the South Balkans Working Group. The Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996.

Burg,Steven. War or Peace?: Nationalism, Democracy and American Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Europe. New York: New York University Press, 1996.