Steven L. Burg

Title

Adlai Stevenson Professor of International Politics

Politics

Expertise

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

Profile

Works to promote inclusive governance through the international NGO Council for Inclusive Governance, for which he serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors. Directs the Brandeis University Research Circle on Democracy and Cultural Pluralism.

Degrees

University of Chicago, Ph.D.

CUNY Hunter College, M.A.

SUNY at Stony Brook, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	burg@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2752
Office:	Olin-Sang American Civilization Center, 108

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Fellowship to participate in German Studies Seminar on "Ethnic Diversity and National Identity," Berlin (June 2011) (2011)

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	129a	East European Politics
POL	151a	Seminar: Cultural Pluralism and Democratic Governance
POL	171b	National Intelligence: Theory, Practice, and Cinematic
POL	213a	Graduate Seminar: Comparative Political Institutions and Public Policy
POL	213b	Graduate Seminar: Selected Topics in Comparative Politics

Scholarship

Burg, Steven L.. "Intervention in Internal Conflict: Lessons from Bosnia and Kosovo." From Mediation to Nation-Building: Third Parties and The Management of Communal Conflict. Ed. William J. Lahneman and Joseph R. Rudolph, Jr.. Lexington Books, 2013 (forthcoming)

Burg, Steven L./Lachen T. Chernyha. "Asymmetric Devolution and Ethnoregionalism in Spain: Mass Preferences and the Microfoundations of Instability." Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 19. 3 (2013): forthcoming. (forthcoming)

Burg, Steven L.. "Identity and Political Behavior in a Multilayered State: Activated Identity and the Politics of Devolution in the Spanish ‘State of Autonomies’." 19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, MA. 2012.

Burg, Steven L.. "Popular Protest and the Future of Putin’s Russia." World Affairs Council. Naples, FL. January 23, 2012.

Burg, Steven L./Lachen T. Chernyha. "Accounting for the Effects of Identity on Political Behavior: Descent, Strength of Attachment, and Preferences in the Regions of Spain." Comparative Political Studies 45. 6 (2012): 774-803.

Burg, Steven L. and Lachen T. Chernyha. "Descent, Constitutive Norms, and Preferences: Accounting for the Effects of Identity on Political Behavior in the Regions of Spain." The New England Political Science Association, Newport, RI. April 23, 2010.

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.

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