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Professor Raymond Taras


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  Contact Information

   Office:
   306 Norman Mayer bldg.
   New Orleans, LA. 70118

   Email: taras@tulane.edu

   Office Hours: W 10:00-12:00

   Tel: (504) 862 - 8302

 

 

 

 

Current Courses

POLC 341 - Politics and Nationalism

This course reviews theories of nation building and identity formation and considers contemporary case studies of nationalism drawn from both advanced Western democracies and developing states. The conditions under which nationalism leads to ethnic conflicts and to political extremism will be assayed.

POLI 465 - Russian Foreign Policy

This course identifies the principal objectives of post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. It describes contemporary Russian foreign policy towards various countries and regions.

Research Interests

Nationalism, xenophobia, ethnic conflict, European transnationalism and international politics, Russian foreign policy, and world literature and politics. 


Curriculum Vitae 

 

Recent Publications

Europe’s Rising Islamophobia: The Impact on Foreign Policy
  University of Utah Press, 2010

Understanding ethnic conflict (with Rajat Ganguly)
  4th edn. Longman, 2010

Europe old and new: transnationalism, belonging, xenophobia
  Rowman and Littlefield, 2009


Contributions to Cultural and Literary Studies

https://ent.tulane.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://americareads.blogspot.com/2009/10/interview-gerald-elias.html

 

Tulane University, Political Science Dept, 316 Norman Mayer Bldg, New Orleans, LA 70118 504-865-5800 polisci@tulane.edu