Research & Publications

 

Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide

Balkan Holocaust

The Ethics of Foreign Policy

 The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas, and the War on Terror

Introduction to Politics

Refereed Books

  1. Europe in its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other, co-edited with Mary DeCoste (Wilfred Laurier University Press, under contract)
  2. Introduction to Politics, co-authored with R. Garner, P. Ferdinand and S. Lawson (Oxford University Press, 2012).
  3. The Bush Leadership, the Power of Ideas and the War on Terror, co-edited with D. Nabers and R.G. Patman (Ashgate Press, 2012)
  4. Thinking History, Fighting Evil: Neoconservatives and the Perils of Historical Analogy in American Politics (Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield; 2009) Click here for table of contents and introduction. 
  5. Identity Politics in the Age of Genocide: The Holocaust and Historical Representation, (Routledge, 2008). Click here for table of contents and introduction.
  6. The Ethics of Foreign Policy, co-edited with R.G. Patman and B. Mason-Parker (Ashgate Press, 2007) 
  7. Balkan holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim Centred Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia (Manchester University Press, 2003) 
     

Refereed Book Chapters

  1. Co-authored “Introduction” and “Conclusion” with R.G. Patman and D. Nabers in  MacDonald, Patman, and Nabers (eds) op cit.
  2. “Historical Analogies and Leadership in Bush Administration Foreign Policy” in MacDonald, Patman and Nabers (eds) op. cit.
  3. “Australia and New Zealand: Special Relationships in the Anglo-American World”, with Brendon O’Connor, in Peter J Katzenstein (ed.) Anglo-America and its Discontents: Civilizational Identities beyond West and East (New York: Routledge, forthcoming, 2012)  Click here for draft version in PDF.
  4.  “The Power of Ideas in International Relations” in D. Nabers and N. Godehardt (eds), Regional Powers and Regional Orders (London: Routledge, 2010)  Click here for draft version in PDF. 
  5. “Americanization” in George Kurian, et al., The Encyclopedia of Political Science (Washington, DC: CQ Press / SAGE, 2010)
  6. “America’s Memory Problems: Diaspora Groups, Civil Society and the Perils of ‘Chosen Amnesia’” in Jing-Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo, and Arthur Kleinman (eds), Japanese Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative Perspectives on Science, History and Ethics (Routledge: 2010) Click here for draft version in PDF.
  7. “Subaltern Discourse and Genocide: Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War: 1980-2000”, in Nicholas Robins and Adam Jones (eds), Genocides By The Oppressed: Subaltern Movements and Retributive Genocide (University of Indiana Press, 2009). Click here for draft version in PDF.
  8. (editor and primary contributor), “Living Together or Hating Each Other?,” in Charles Ingrao and Thomas Emmert (eds) Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholar’s Initiative (Lafayette, ID: Purdue University Press, 2009)
  9. “Subaltern Discourse and Genocide: Serbian Victimization and Historical Justifications for War: 1980-2000”, in Nicholas Robins and Adam Jones (eds), Genocides By The Oppressed: Subaltern Movements and Retributive Genocide (Indiana University Press, 2008).
  10. “Putting Canada’s ‘Canadian Holocaust’ in Perspective: Comparative Indigenous History in Western Settler Societies” in Shuli Barzilai, Arza Churchman, and Allen Zysblatt (eds) Coping with Crisis: Conflict Management and Resolution (Jerusalem: Magnes Press / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008) 
  11. “The Importance of Being European: Narratives of East and West in Serbian and Croatian Nationalism” in Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Andrzej Marcin Suszycki (eds), Nationalism in Contemporary Europe (Berlin: LIT Verlag; Lanham, MD: Lexington Books / Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming 2008). Click here for draft version in PDF.
  12. “Exceptionalism, the Holocaust and American Foreign Policy”, in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
  13. (co-authored with Robert G. Patman) “Introduction: Ethics and International Relations” in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
  14. (co-authored with Stephen Haigh and Robert G. Patman) “Conclusion: Some Reflections on Ethics and Foreign Policy” in The Ethics of Foreign Policy (London: Ashgate, 2007).
  15. “India: Security in the Twentieth Century and After” in Paul Bellamy and Karl De Rouen (eds) International Security and the United States: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Publishing, 2007).
  16. “Serbs and the Jewish Trope: Nationalism, Victimhood and the Successor Wars in Yugoslavia: 1986-2000”, in Wojciech Burszta, Tomasz Kamusella and Sebastian Wojciechowski (eds) Nationalisms Across the Globe: An overview of the nationalisms of state-endowed and stateless nations (Poznan: Wyzsza Szkola Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa, 2005) pp.97-129.
  17. “Regionalism: New Zealand, Asia, the Pacific, and Australia” in Robert G. Patman and Chris Rudd (eds.) Sovereignty Under Siege? The Case of New Zealand (London: Ashgate Press, 2005) pp.171-192. Click here for draft version in PDF.
  18. “Balkansturm 1999? Die Vereinigten Staaten, die NATO und die Bombardierung Jugoslawiens”, in Adam Jones (ed.), Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen, trans. Ulrike Seith, Petra Weber, and Alexis Rada (Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH, 2005) pp 324–50.
  19. “The Fire in 1999?: The United States, NATO, and the Bombing of Yugoslavia”, in Adam Jones (ed.) Genocide, War Crimes, and the West: Ending the Culture of Impunity (London: Zed Books, 2004) pp 276–299.

 

Refereed Articles

  1. "Reflections on Anti-Americanism in Australia & New Zealand" (co-authored with Brendon O’ Connor) New Zealand & Australian Armed Forces Law Review forthcoming 2013"Genocide, Reconciliation, and the Residential Schools: A Survey of Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Attitudes among Elected Officials in Canada" (with Mark Mitchell)  Canadian Political Science Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2012, 117-130.
  2. "Reconciliation After Genocide in Canada: Towards a syncretic model of democracy" in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples Volume 9, no. 1., 2013.
  3. “Contextualizing Aboriginal Residential Schools in Canada: How International and Domestic Law Can Help Us Interpret Genocide Claims”, co-authored with my research assistant Graham Hudson, Canadian Journal of Political Science, June, 2012.
  4. Bush’s America and the New Exceptionalism: The Holocaust, Victimhood and the Trans-Atlantic Rift” Third World Quarterly Vol. 29
  5. “First Nations, Residential Schools, and the Americanization of the Holocaust: Rewriting Indigenous History in America, Australia, and Canada”, Canadian Journal of Political Science (December 2007). pp.1-21. Lead Article.
  6. “Imagining the Twentieth Century: Retrospective, Myth, and the Colonial Question” PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Vov. 4 No. 1 (2007) pp 1-27.
  7. “Pushing the Limits of Humanity?: Reinterpreting Animal Rights and ‘Personhood’ through the Prism of the Holocaust”, Journal of Human Rights Vol. 5, No. 4 (2006) pp.417-39.
  8. “Globalizing the Holocaust: A Jewish “useable past” in Serbian and Croatian nationalism”, PORTAL, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2005) pp.1-31.
  9. “Forgetting and Denying: Iris Chang, the Holocaust and the Challenge of Nanking”, International Politics (2005) pp.403-28. Lead Article 
  10. “Daring to compare: The debate about a Maori ‘holocaust’ in New Zealand”, Journal of Genocide Research (September, 2003) pp.383-404.
  11.  “The Quest for Purity: Linguistic Politics and the War in Croatia”, Slovo: An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, East European and Eurasian Affairs, Vol. 15 No. 1 (2003) pp.5-21. Lead Article.
  12. «La Croatie: un exemple d’épuration langagière?», Raisons Politiques, No. 2 (May, 2001) pp.127-148.
  13. “The Myth of “Europe” in Croatian Politics and Economics”, Slovo Vol 12 (2000) pp.68-103.
  14. “Political Zionism and the ‘Nebeski Narodniks’: Towards an Understanding of the Serbian National Self”, Slovo Vol. 10 Nos. 1-2 (1998) pp.91-114.

 

Recent Conference Papers (Since 2005)

  • “Contextualizing Aboriginal Residential Schools in Canada: How International and Domestic Law Can Help Us Interpret Genocide Claims” co-authored paper (with G Hudson) at the Canadian Political Science Association Conference, Kitchener-Waterloo, May, 2011
  • “Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schooling in Canada: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Genocide Convention” co-authored paper (with G Hudson) at the International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, March 16-19, 2011.
  • Power in International Relations: Indigenous Knowledge as a Fourth Face of Power” paper at the International Studies Association Conference, Montreal, March 16-19, 2011.
  • “Imagining the Twentieth Century: Retrospective, Myth, and the Colonial Question” PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies Vol. 4, No. 1 (2007) pp.1-27.
  •  “Contextualizing Indigenous Residential Schools in Canada: How International and Domestic Law Can Help Interpret Genocide Claims”, paper for the American Political Science Association Washington DC, September, 2010 (co-authored  with G Hudson).
  •  “Australia and New Zealand: Comparing National Identity and Perceptions of the Anglosphere” paper for the American Political Science Association Washington DC, September, 2010 (co-authored with Brendon O’Connor).
  •  “Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schooling in Canada: Truth, Reconciliation, and the Genocide Convention” paper presented at the Association for Canadian Studies Australia-New Zealand Biennial conference, Armidale,  Australia, 4-7 July, 2010.
  •  “Reconcilable Differences? Indigenous Knowledge and European Governance Models in Canada”  paper presented at the Indigenous Knowledge 4 Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 4-8 June, 2010.
  •  “Australia and New Zealand – America’s Antipodean Anglosphere Allies?” co-authored paper presentation (with Brendon O’Connor) at the International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, February, 2010.
  •  “Crisis and Presidential Decision-Making” conference panel presentation presented at the International Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, February, 2010.
  •  “The Power of Ideas in International Relations”
  • “Historical Analogies and the framing of Bush's War on Terror” conference panel presentation presented at the International Studies Association Conference, New York, February 14-19, 2009.
  • “The Genocide Question in Indigenous-Settler Relations: Comparing Canada, Australia, and the United States”, presented at the Association for Canadian Studies Australia- New Zealand biennial conference, July 1-3, 2008, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Co-authored with Brendon O’Connor and Peter J. Katzenstein, “Anti-Americanism among the Antipodes: Australia and New Zealand” conference paper presented at the International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.
  • “Anti-Americanism versus Anti-Canadianism: Reflections on Co-Constitutive Anti-Nationalisms in US–Canada Relations” conference paper presented at the International Studies Association Conference, San Francisco, March 26-29, 2008.
  • “Indigenous Protest and the Americanization of the Holocaust: Rewriting Indigenous History in Western Settler Societies” presented at the Israeli Association for Canadian Studies biennial conference, 2-5 July, 2006, University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Jerusalem.
  • “The Auschwitz Analogy and Aboriginal Protest: The Impact of Holocaust Consciousness on Indigenous Movements in Australia, New Zealand and Canada”, presented at the Association for Canadian Studies Australia New Zealand (ACSANZ) biennial conference, 11-13 April, 2006, University of Otago, Dunedin.
  • “Identity Politics, Human Rights, and the Cosmopolitanization of the Holocaust”, presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) annual conference, University of Otago, September 28 – October 1, 2005.
  • “New Zealand Regionalism: Asia, the Pacific and Australia”, presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) annual conference, University of Otago, September 28 – October 1, 2005.
  • “The Transatlantic Gap: Erosion of American Moral Capital in Europe after 11 September”, presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association (APSA) annual conference, University of Otago, September 28 – October 1, 2005.